Katarina with Nautilus
How to Synergize Katarina and Nautilus
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Katarina Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nautilus
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina sees a very large drop 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 Katarina perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina is paired with Nautilus, she sees a little increase in her total damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nautilus helps provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Katarina plays with Nautilus on the same side, she typically takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Katarina during teamfights.
Synergies between Katarina and Nautilus
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no perfect companion for Katarina that will always be her #1 ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor ally for Katarina. By being on the same side as Katarina, he drops their win rate by -1.5% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Katarina and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Katarina players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Katarina and Nautilus together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates enough crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Katarina to pair well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to build first in your Katarina and Nautilus synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three great items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 47.3% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Katarina players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% winrate overall.
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