Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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 Zoe 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, Zoe sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nautilus helps Zoe perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zoe tries to synergize with Nautilus, she sees a marginal improvement in her full damage dealt. This difference could signal that Nautilus helps provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Zoe 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 alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Zoe plays with Nautilus on the same side, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Zoe in teamfights.
There is no universally accepted best ally for Zoe that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical teammate for Zoe. By locking into the same team as Zoe, he lowers their win rate by -1.0% to 46.0%. This signals that there is only a small strategic relationship between Zoe and Nautilus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Zoe. That means you should be cautious when enlisting Nautilus teammates to play with, as they will have to have 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 capability to deal magic damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Zoe and Nautilus together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zoe in order to work well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to learn additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Zoe and Nautilus synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zoe boasted an average winrate of 46.0% helping carry Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Zoe players should take the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for this champion pairing, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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