Nautilus with Skarner
How to Synergize Nautilus and Skarner
based on 479 Nautilus with Skarner pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nautilus Skarner Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Skarner
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Skarner
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.
Advice to Understand How Skarner Will Play
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
Nautilus Skarner Synergy Stats
How to Play with Skarner as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Skarner synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Skarner, 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 Skarner. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Skarner helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Skarner, he sees a little decrease in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Skarner does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Skarner on the same side, 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 synergisticly with Skarner.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Skarner on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Skarner does a decent job of covering Nautilus during team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Skarner
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Skarner?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, Skarner is a very bad companion for Nautilus. By being on the same side as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 44.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible bond between Nautilus and Skarner that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Skarner has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be very careful when finding Skarner comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champs will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by grouping Nautilus and Skarner together, you will not be granting your other allies enough AD. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Skarner ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to pair well with Skarner during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to have in your Nautilus and Skarner synergy build consist of Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Skarner than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 44.7% helping carry Skarner with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nautilus players should equip 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 builds players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.7% winrate overall.
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