Nautilus with Brand
How to Synergize Nautilus and Brand
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Nautilus Brand Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Brand
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Brand
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 Brand Will Play
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
Nautilus Brand Synergy Stats
How to Play with Brand as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, 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 Brand. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Brand helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is paired with Brand, he gets a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Brand helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Brand 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 Brand.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Brand on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Brand does a poor job of protecting Nautilus during team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Brand
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Brand?
There is no top ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Brand is a superb ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he raises their win rate by 3.0% to 51.8%. This signals that there is an important bond between Nautilus and Brand that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Brand has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Brand teammates to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nautilus and Brand together, you may not be providing your side very much AD. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Brand ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus in order to work well with Brand during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to use in your Nautilus and Brand synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus used at least these three finished items in his build, he did a lot better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 51.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Brand with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Brand with Nautilus are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.