Kai'Sa with Nautilus
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Nautilus
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Kai'Sa Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Nautilus
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Kai'Sa perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Nautilus, she gets a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This could signal that Nautilus provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played together with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Kai'Sa plays with Nautilus on the same team, she on average receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Kai'Sa during teamfights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no perfect companion for Kai'Sa that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical ally for Kai'Sa. By being on the same team as Kai'Sa, he improves their win rate by 0.4% to 46.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak synergy between Kai'Sa and Nautilus that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by aligning Kai'Sa and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other teammates much crowd control. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Kai'Sa in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to include in your Kai'Sa and Nautilus synergy build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Kai'Sa players should use the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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