Nautilus with Vladimir
How to Synergize Nautilus and Vladimir
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Nautilus Vladimir Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Vladimir
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Vladimir
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 Vladimir Will Play
Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
Nautilus Vladimir Synergy Stats
How to Play with Vladimir as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Vladimir synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Vladimir, 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 Vladimir. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Vladimir helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is an ally to Vladimir, he observes a barely noticable drop in his full damage output. This difference could indicate that Vladimir doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Vladimir on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Vladimir.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Vladimir on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Vladimir does a decent job of protecting Nautilus during team fights.
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Vladimir?
There is no top companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Vladimir is a below average ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nautilus and Vladimir that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Vladimir has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you should be cautious when finding Vladimir comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nautilus and Vladimir together, you may not be providing your other teammates very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Vladimir ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to work well with Vladimir during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to get in your Nautilus and Vladimir synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Vladimir than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.7% when playing alongside Vladimir with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Nautilus players should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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