Aphelios with Nautilus
How to Synergize Aphelios and Nautilus
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Aphelios Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Aphelios and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Aphelios with Nautilus
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Aphelios in LoL
The Aphelios 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, Aphelios sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nautilus helps Aphelios perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Aphelios plays on the same team as Nautilus, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This difference could signal that Nautilus supports by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Aphelios is played together with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Aphelios plays with Nautilus on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Aphelios in teamfights.
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Is Aphelios better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best companion for Aphelios that will no matter what be his best ally. Yet, Nautilus is a not very good ally for Aphelios. By playing on the same side as Aphelios, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.1%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Aphelios and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a much lower diffuclty than Aphelios. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Nautilus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, Aphelios players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by grouping Aphelios and Nautilus together, you will not be giving your other allies enough AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Aphelios to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to use in your Aphelios and Nautilus synergy build include Infinity Edge, Stormrazor, and The Collector. When Aphelios included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Nautilus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Aphelios had an average win rate of 47.1% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Aphelios and Nautilus pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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