Command: Protect can be used on yourself to return the Ball back to you quickly. Combine this with Command: Attack for a quick harassment.
Command: Dissonance is a very powerful escape tool if Orianna has the Ball. The combination of speed and leaving a slowing obstacle can be quite powerful.
Command: Shockwave can be used to drag enemies towards you or away from you if you position the Ball properly.
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.
The Orianna Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Orianna sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Orianna perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Orianna tries to synergize with Nautilus, she sees a small increase in her total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nautilus helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Orianna is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Orianna plays with Nautilus on the same team, she usually receives a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Orianna in teamfights.
There is no one best companion for Orianna that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical teammate for Orianna. By locking into the same side as Orianna, he decreases their win rate by -0.7% to 46.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Orianna and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Orianna. That means Orianna players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nautilus allies to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Orianna and Nautilus together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
To truly master Orianna to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important items to prioritize in your Orianna and Nautilus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Orianna combined at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Orianna boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% win rate overall.
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