Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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 Xayah 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, Xayah sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nautilus helps Xayah perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xayah is paired with Nautilus, she observes a marginal improvement in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nautilus helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Xayah is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Xayah plays with Nautilus on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Xayah in teamfights.
There is no top ally for Xayah that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. However, overall, Nautilus is a not very good companion for Xayah. By locking into the same side as Xayah, he lowers their win rate by -1.9% to 45.8%. This proves that there is a harmful bond between Xayah and Nautilus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Xayah. That means you need to be cautious when lining up Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by grouping Xayah and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your side a great deal of AP. Plan to include other champions on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Xayah to pair well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to get in your Xayah and Nautilus synergy build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other common builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 45.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Xayah and Nautilus pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nautilus with Xayah are given for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.