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.
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
The Nautilus Shaco synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Shaco, 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 Shaco. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Shaco helps Nautilus perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Shaco, he sees a clear improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may indicate that Shaco provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Shaco 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 alongside Shaco.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Shaco on the same side, he usually receives more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Shaco does a poor job of protecting Nautilus during teamfights.
There is no top companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his best synergy. Yet, overall, Shaco is a terrible ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -3.6% to 45.2%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Nautilus and Shaco that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Shaco has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players should be very careful when arranging Shaco teammates to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Nautilus players should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Shaco together, you will not be giving your other allies a lot of engage potential. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Shaco ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to synergize with Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nautilus and Shaco synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Shaco than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 45.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Shaco with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 rune combinations players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.2% win rate overall.
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