Nautilus with Aphelios
How to Synergize Nautilus and Aphelios
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Nautilus Aphelios Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Aphelios
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Advice to Understand How Aphelios Will Play
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
Nautilus Aphelios Synergy Stats
How to Play with Aphelios as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Aphelios synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Aphelios, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Aphelios. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Aphelios helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is paired with Aphelios, he observes a barely noticable drop in his total damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Aphelios doesn't help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Aphelios on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Aphelios.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Aphelios on the same side, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Aphelios does a decent job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Aphelios
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Aphelios?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nautilus that will always be his #1 ally. However, overall, Aphelios is a not very good companion for Nautilus. By being on the same team as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -1.7% to 47.1%. This shows that there is a bad synergy between Nautilus and Aphelios that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Aphelios has a much greater difficulty compared to Nautilus. That means you must be cautious when lining up Aphelios comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Aphelios together, you may not be granting your team a lot of AP. We recommend you have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Aphelios ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to synergize with Aphelios during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nautilus and Aphelios synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Aphelios than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.1% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Aphelios with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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