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.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Nautilus Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy 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 Poppy, he sees a small increase in his complete damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Poppy provides cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Poppy 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 Poppy.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Poppy on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Nautilus that will always be his ideal ally. Yet, Poppy is a relatively poor ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, she lowers their win rate by -1.2% to 47.6%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nautilus and Poppy that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Poppy teammates to play with, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nautilus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by pairing Nautilus and Poppy together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough AP. We recommend you include other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in their abilities.
Regardless of your Poppy ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to synergize with Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to have in your Nautilus and Poppy synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus combined at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Poppy than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 47.6% when playing alongside Poppy with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take 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 sets players picked for Nautilus and Poppy pairings, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
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