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.
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
The Nautilus Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, 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 Caitlyn. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Caitlyn helps Nautilus perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Caitlyn, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This difference could signal that Caitlyn supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Caitlyn on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Caitlyn on the same side, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nautilus that will always be his top ally. However, Caitlyn is a not very good ally for Nautilus. By locking into the same team as Nautilus, she lowers their win rate by -1.8% to 47.0%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nautilus and Caitlyn that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Caitlyn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nautilus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Together, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Nautilus and Caitlyn together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of magic damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to pair well with Caitlyn during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nautilus and Caitlyn synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus combined at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when playing alongside Caitlyn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.0% winrate overall.
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