Nautilus with Katarina
How to Synergize Nautilus and Katarina
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Nautilus Katarina Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Nautilus Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Katarina helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Katarina, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Katarina does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Katarina on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Katarina.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Katarina on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Katarina does a decent job of protecting Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Katarina
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nautilus that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Katarina is a not very good companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, she lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 47.3%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nautilus and Katarina that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Katarina has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players need to be careful when enlisting Katarina teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to work well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nautilus players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magic damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nautilus and Katarina together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Katarina ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to work well with Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to have in your Nautilus and Katarina synergy build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three finished items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 47.3% helping carry Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nautilus and Katarina pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.3% win rate overall.
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