Lucian with Nautilus
How to Synergize Lucian and Nautilus
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Lucian Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Nautilus
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nautilus helps Lucian perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Nautilus, he gets a small increase in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Nautilus provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played together with Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Lucian plays with Nautilus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Lucian during team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no ideal ally for Lucian that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a very typical ally for Lucian. By locking into the same side as Lucian, he decreases their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This shows that there is only a small strategic relationship between Lucian and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Lucian. That means Lucian players don't need to be very careful when arranging Nautilus comrades to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing alongside, Lucian players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Lucian and Nautilus together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of magic damage. Make sure to include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lucian in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Lucian and Nautilus synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he did much better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Lucian had an average win rate of 48.0% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Lucian players should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lucian and Nautilus pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.0% win rate overall.
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