Nautilus with Akali
How to Synergize Nautilus and Akali
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Nautilus Akali Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Akali
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Akali
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.
Advice to Understand How Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Nautilus Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Akali. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Akali helps Nautilus perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is an ally to Akali, he sees a little decrease in his full damage dealt. This could demonstrate that Akali does not provide cover for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Akali on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Akali.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Akali on the same team, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Akali does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Akali
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Akali?
There is no top companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his best ally. Yet, Akali is a relatively poor companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, she decreases their win rate by -1.1% to 47.7%. This proves that there is a negative bond between Nautilus and Akali that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Akali has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you must be very careful when enlisting Akali allies to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Nautilus players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Akali together, you will not be providing your side enough utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Akali ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nautilus to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial items to build first in your Nautilus and Akali synergy build include Trailblazer, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Akali than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Akali with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating your oponents, Nautilus players should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.7% win rate overall.
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