Nautilus with Kai'Sa
How to Synergize Nautilus and Kai'Sa
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Nautilus Kai'Sa Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa Will Play
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Nautilus Kai'Sa Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kai'Sa as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Kai'Sa helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Kai'Sa, he observes a small decrease in his total damage output. This difference could indicate that Kai'Sa doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Kai'Sa on the same team, 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 Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Kai'Sa on the same side, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Kai'Sa does a decent job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Kai'Sa
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Kai'Sa?
There is no ideal ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Kai'Sa is a not very good companion for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.9%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Nautilus and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be very careful when lining up Kai'Sa comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nautilus and Kai'Sa together, you may not be granting your side enough crowd control. We recommend you bring other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to synergize with Kai'Sa during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Nautilus and Kai'Sa synergy build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Celestial Opposition, and Force of Nature. When Nautilus included at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better when fighting alongside Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 46.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating your oponents, you should take the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
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