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.
You can release Shield of Durand even while crowd controlled.
You can use the minimap ally icons to cast Hero's Entrance.
You can use the step back from Justice Punch to dodge enemy spells.
The Nautilus Galio synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Galio, 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 Galio. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Galio helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Galio, he sees a little increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Galio does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Galio on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Galio.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Galio on the same team, he typically receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Galio does a decent job of protecting Nautilus in team fights.
There is no ideal ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Galio is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By locking into the same team as Nautilus, he raises their win rate by 0.2% to 49.0%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Nautilus and Galio that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Galio has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Galio allies to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. When paired, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
Although, by pairing Nautilus and Galio together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough sustained damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Galio ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to synergize with Galio during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Nautilus and Galio synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Galio than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 49.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Galio with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nautilus players 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 that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Galio with Nautilus are presented for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual division, you may use the selection menu earlier on the page.