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.
Using Rupture on creeps in combination with Carnivore is a good way to gain Health and Mana.
If you're having difficulty feasting upon champions, try eating minions until you're larger.
Try to line up your attacks with Vorpal Spikes so that they kill minions and harass enemy champions at the same time.
The Nautilus Cho'Gath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Cho'Gath, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Cho'Gath. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Cho'Gath helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is paired with Cho'Gath, he observes a marginal improvement in his complete damage dealt. This difference may signal that Cho'Gath supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Cho'Gath on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Cho'Gath.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Cho'Gath on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Cho'Gath does a poor job of covering Nautilus during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, overall, Cho'Gath is a very typical ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is not really a strong bond between Nautilus and Cho'Gath that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Cho'Gath has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Cho'Gath teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Nautilus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nautilus and Cho'Gath together, you will not be providing your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Cho'Gath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to synergize with Cho'Gath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to use in your Nautilus and Cho'Gath synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Cho'Gath than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Cho'Gath with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Cho'Gath with Nautilus are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual rank, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.