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.
Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
The Nautilus Orianna synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Orianna, 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 Orianna. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Orianna helps Nautilus perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Orianna, he observes a small decrease in his full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Orianna does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that her support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Orianna on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Orianna.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Orianna on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Orianna does a decent job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
There is no top ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Orianna is a relatively poor teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, she drops their win rate by -2.0% to 46.8%. This shows that there is a harmful bond between Nautilus and Orianna that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Orianna has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players must be cautious when finding Orianna comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working alongside, Nautilus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by grouping Nautilus and Orianna together, you may not be providing your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Plan to bring other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Orianna teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Nautilus in order to work well with Orianna during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Nautilus and Orianna synergy build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Orianna than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 46.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Orianna with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nautilus and Orianna pairings, this combo of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.8% win rate overall.
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