Malzahar with Nautilus
How to Synergize Malzahar and Nautilus
based on 5,161 Malzahar with Nautilus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Malzahar Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Malzahar vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Malzahar and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Malzahar with Nautilus
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
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.
Malzahar Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Malzahar in LoL
The Malzahar 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, Malzahar 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 worsening shows that Nautilus helps Malzahar perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Malzahar is an ally to Nautilus, he observes a marginal improvement in his total damage dealt. This may indicate that Nautilus provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Malzahar is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Malzahar plays with Nautilus on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of covering Malzahar during teamfights.
Synergies between Malzahar and Nautilus
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Is Malzahar better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no ideal ally for Malzahar that will always be his best synergy. However, Nautilus is a very typical teammate for Malzahar. By being on the same team as Malzahar, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 50.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Malzahar and Nautilus that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Malzahar. That means Malzahar players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Nautilus allies to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting together, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Malzahar and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your team very much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Malzahar in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to use in your Malzahar and Nautilus synergy build consist of Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Malignance, and Shadowflame. When Malzahar bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Malzahar boasted an average winrate of 50.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Malzahar players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Malzahar and Nautilus pairings, this blending of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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