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.
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
The Nautilus Nami synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nami, 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 Nami. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nami helps Nautilus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Nami, he observes a big jump in his complete damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nami supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Nami on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nami. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nami.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Nami on the same team, he typically receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Nami does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
There is no ideal companion for Nautilus that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Nami is a very bad ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, she drops their win rate by -7.6% to 41.2%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Nautilus and Nami that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nami has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Nami teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, Nautilus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. When paired, these champs may be able to carry with the power of their abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Nautilus and Nami together, you may not be providing your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that offsets this gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nami ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nautilus to work well with Nami during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Nautilus and Nami synergy build include Unending Despair, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Nami than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 41.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nami with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this team composition, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.2% win rate overall.
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