Ekko with Nautilus
How to Synergize Ekko and Nautilus
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Ekko Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Ekko and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Ekko with Nautilus
Chronobreak is a potent escape tool, but it can also be quite powerful when used offensively. Don't underestimate its damage potential.
If you can proc Z-Drive Resonance on an enemy champion, it's worth taking risks to do so. The bonus Move Speed makes it easy to escape.
Phase Dive's dash is a great tool for setting up Ekko's other abilities. Use it to get double hits with Timewinder or get into position to detonate Parallel Convergence.
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.
Ekko Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Ekko in LoL
The Ekko 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, Ekko sees a very large drop in his 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 Ekko perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Ekko is paired with Nautilus, he observes a little decrease in his complete damage output. This change may signal that Nautilus does not help protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Ekko is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Ekko plays with Nautilus on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Ekko during teamfights.
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Is Ekko better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Ekko that will always be his #1 ally. However, Nautilus is a very typical companion for Ekko. By playing on the same team as Ekko, he lowers their win rate by -0.6% to 50.4%. This signals that there is a weak bond between Ekko and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Ekko. That means Ekko players don't need to be very careful when arranging Nautilus allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting alongside, Ekko players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champions can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Ekko and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other allies very much sustained damage output. Make sure to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in their playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold 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 learn all of the intricacies of Ekko in order to pair well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to focus on in your Ekko and Nautilus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Ekko incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ekko had an average winrate of 50.4% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of crushing your oponents, Ekko players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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