Nautilus with Alistar
How to Synergize Nautilus and Alistar
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Nautilus Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Alistar
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 Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Nautilus Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, 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 large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Alistar helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is an ally to Alistar, he gets a great improvement in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Alistar provides protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Alistar on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Alistar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Alistar.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Alistar on the same side, he often receives more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Alistar does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Alistar
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his #1 synergy. However, Alistar is a decent teammate for Nautilus. By being on the same team as Nautilus, he increases their win rate by 2.4% to 51.2%. This demonstrates that there is a somewhat important bond between Nautilus and Alistar that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Alistar has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you need to be careful when finding Alistar allies to fight alongside, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to tank a lot of damage. Combined, these champions will be a great protective duo.
In contrast, by bringing Nautilus and Alistar together, you may not be granting your other allies a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Alistar teammate, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to synergize with Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to focus on in your Nautilus and Alistar synergy build include Unending Despair, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Alistar than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing alongside Alistar with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.2% win rate overall.
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