Nautilus with Karthus
How to Synergize Nautilus and Karthus
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Nautilus Karthus Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Karthus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Karthus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Karthus
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 Karthus Will Play
Lay Waste is very strong at farming minions and harassing enemy champions.
Ask your allies to help point out when you should use Requiem to get kills in different lanes.
Nautilus Karthus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Karthus as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Karthus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Karthus, 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 Karthus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Karthus helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Karthus, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This may signal that Karthus supports by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Karthus on the same team, 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 with Karthus.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Karthus on the same side, he on average takes more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Karthus does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Karthus
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Karthus?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, Karthus is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, he has no effect on their win rate by 0.0% to 48.8%. This signals that there is not really a strong bond between Nautilus and Karthus that allows them to perform at the same level together than alone.
Karthus has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players should be careful when enlisting Karthus comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, Nautilus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by aligning Nautilus and Karthus together, you may not be granting your side very much AD. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Karthus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to synergize with Karthus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to prioritize in your Nautilus and Karthus synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Karthus than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing alongside Karthus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% win rate overall.
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