Maokai with Nautilus
How to Synergize Maokai and Nautilus
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Maokai Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Maokai and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Maokai with Nautilus
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack 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.
Maokai Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Maokai in LoL
The Maokai 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, Maokai 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 decrease shows that Nautilus helps Maokai perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Maokai tries to synergize with Nautilus, he gets a big jump in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Nautilus helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Maokai is played together with Nautilus on the same team, 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.
Additionally, when Maokai plays with Nautilus on the same team, he typically receives much more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Maokai in teamfights.
Synergies between Maokai and Nautilus
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Is Maokai better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top synergy for Maokai that will always be his ideal ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a very bad companion for Maokai. By being on the same team as Maokai, he lowers their win rate by -6.7% to 45.9%. This signals that there is a very bad synergy between Maokai and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Maokai. That means you must be very careful when lining up Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, Maokai players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by aligning Maokai and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other allies very much attack damage. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Maokai in order to pair well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai and Nautilus synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Sunfire Aegis, and Thornmail. When Maokai combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Maokai boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for this team composition, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
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