Nautilus with Bard
How to Synergize Nautilus and Bard
based on 196 Nautilus with Bard pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nautilus Bard Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Bard
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Bard
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 Bard Will Play
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Nautilus Bard Synergy Stats
How to Play with Bard as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Bard synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Bard, 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 Bard. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Bard helps Nautilus perform not as well in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Bard, he observes a great improvement in his total damage output. This change could signal that Bard supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Bard on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Bard.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Bard on the same team, he typically takes much more damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Bard does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Bard
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Bard?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nautilus that will always be his best teammate. Yet, Bard is a good teammate for Nautilus. By being on the same team as Nautilus, he increases their win rate by 2.2% to 51.0%. This signals that there is a somewhat important bond between Nautilus and Bard that allows them to perform better together than without each other.
Bard has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players should be very careful when finding Bard teammates to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to buff allies and debuff enemies. Together, these champs should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
In contrast, by aligning Nautilus and Bard together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in their potential.
Regardless of your Bard ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to work well with Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Nautilus and Bard synergy build include Unending Despair, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus included at least these three finished items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 51.0% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Unflinching, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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