Nautilus with Gragas
How to Synergize Nautilus and Gragas
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Nautilus Gragas Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Gragas
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Gragas
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 Gragas Will Play
Try to knock enemies back into your towers with Explosive Cask.
Try to combo Body Slam with Explosive Cask to set up kills for your team.
The damage reduction from Drunken Rage is applied when you start drinking, try to use it when you see damage coming your way.
Nautilus Gragas Synergy Stats
How to Play with Gragas as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Gragas synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Gragas, 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 Gragas. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Gragas helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is an ally to Gragas, he gets a little drop in his full damage output. This could demonstrate that Gragas does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Gragas on the same side, 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 Gragas.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Gragas on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Gragas does a poor job of protecting Nautilus during team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Gragas
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Gragas?
There is no one best ally for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, overall, Gragas is a not very good ally for Nautilus. By locking into the same team as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a harmful synergy between Nautilus and Gragas that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Gragas has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Gragas teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Combined, these two might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by grouping Nautilus and Gragas together, you may not be granting your other teammates much sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Gragas ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus in order to synergize with Gragas during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nautilus and Gragas synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he performed significantly better as an ally of Gragas than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Gragas with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to pair Gragas with Nautilus are shown for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct rank, you can use the selection menu earlier on the page.