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.
Even if you're far from a fight you can still help from afar with Mega Inferno Bomb.
Slowing your enemies with Hexplosive Minefield makes it easier to land other abilities.
Knocking yourself over walls with Satchel Charge can be great when chasing after or escaping from enemies.
The Nautilus Ziggs synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Ziggs, 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 Ziggs. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Ziggs helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Ziggs, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Ziggs helps provide protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Ziggs on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Ziggs. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Ziggs.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Ziggs on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Ziggs does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nautilus that will always be his top synergy. However, Ziggs is a good teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same team as Nautilus, he improves their win rate by 1.0% to 49.8%. This proves that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Nautilus and Ziggs that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Ziggs has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be very careful when finding Ziggs teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Ziggs together, you will not be giving your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Ziggs ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nautilus to work well with Ziggs during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nautilus and Ziggs synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Ziggs than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 49.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Ziggs with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Ziggs with Nautilus are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.