Sona with Nautilus
How to Synergize Sona and Nautilus
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Sona Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Sona vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Sona and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Sona with Nautilus
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
Advice to Understand How Nautilus Will Play
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.
Sona Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Sona in LoL
The Sona 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, Sona 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 Sona perform not as well in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Sona plays on the same team as Nautilus, she sees a clear improvement in her complete damage output. This could signal that Nautilus helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Sona is played alongside 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 Sona plays with Nautilus on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Sona during team fights.
Synergies between Sona and Nautilus
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Is Sona better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best synergy for Sona that will 100% of the time be her #1 teammate. However, Nautilus is a terrible companion for Sona. By being on the same team as Sona, he drops their win rate by -5.7% to 44.7%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Sona and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Sona. That means Sona players need to be very careful when lining up Nautilus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Sona players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to support your allies. Combined, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Sona and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your side much engage potential. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Sona to synergize with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Sona and Nautilus synergy build consist of Seraph's Embrace, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Sona incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Sona boasted an average win rate of 44.7% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Sona players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Sona and Nautilus pairings, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.7% win rate overall.
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