Zed with Nautilus
How to Synergize Zed and Nautilus
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Zed Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nautilus
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Zed in LoL
The Zed Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nautilus helps Zed perform not as well in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zed is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nautilus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played alongside Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Nautilus on the same team, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Zed during teamfights.
Synergies between Zed and Nautilus
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best champion pairing for Zed that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. However, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor teammate for Zed. By playing on the same side as Zed, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 46.9%. This demonstrates that there is a negative bond between Zed and Nautilus that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Zed. That means Zed players don't need to be very careful when lining up Nautilus teammates to play with, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Zed and Nautilus together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of AP. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Zed in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to focus on in your Zed and Nautilus synergy build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Axiom Arc. When Zed included at least these three great items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other common builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average winrate of 46.9% helping carry Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.9% win rate overall.
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