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.
Enemies are considered isolated if they have no allies within a short distance. The damage of Taste Their Fear is massively increased against these targets.
Unseen Threat activates when Kha'Zix cannot be seen by the enemy team. Reactivate by using brush or Void Assault. Don't forget to apply Unseen Threat by autoattacking enemy champions.
Kha'Zix has a great deal of freedom to choose where and when to fight. Pick your battles carefully to succeed.
The Nautilus Kha'Zix synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kha'Zix, 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 Kha'Zix. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kha'Zix helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Kha'Zix, he sees a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could signal that Kha'Zix does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Kha'Zix 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 with Kha'Zix.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Kha'Zix on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could mean that Kha'Zix does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
There is no one best champion pairing for Nautilus that will no matter what be his ideal ally. However, overall, Kha'Zix is a not very good companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.3%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Nautilus and Kha'Zix that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kha'Zix has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kha'Zix comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nautilus players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by pairing Nautilus and Kha'Zix together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Kha'Zix ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nautilus to pair well with Kha'Zix during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Nautilus and Kha'Zix synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Kha'Zix than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kha'Zix with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of crushing your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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