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 Samira 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, Samira sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Samira perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Samira is paired with Nautilus, she observes a clear improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nautilus supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Samira is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Samira plays with Nautilus on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Taking not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Samira during team fights.
There is no top champion pairing for Samira that will always be her top teammate. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a pretty good ally for Samira. By being on the same side as Samira, he raises their win rate by 1.5% to 50.2%. This signals that there is a somewhat important strategic relationship between Samira and Nautilus that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Samira. That means you don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nautilus teammates to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Working together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Samira and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your side very much utility. Plan to include other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Samira in order to work well with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to focus on in your Samira and Nautilus synergy build include Guardian Angel, Bloodthirster, and The Collector. When Samira used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Samira boasted an average winrate of 50.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Treasure Hunter, and Eyeball Collection runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Samira and Nautilus pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.2% winrate overall.
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