Nautilus with Kennen
How to Synergize Nautilus and Kennen
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Nautilus Kennen Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Kennen
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Kennen
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 Kennen Will Play
You can land an initial Mark of the Storm debuff on an opponent with Thundering Shuriken, and then add to it with Electrical Surge.
Lightning Rush can be used to initiate fights with its Energy return component, allowing him to use other abilities afterward.
You can stun your opponents by inflicting 3 Marks of the Storm upon them.
Nautilus Kennen Synergy Stats
How to Play with Kennen as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Kennen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kennen, 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 Kennen. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Kennen helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is paired with Kennen, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Kennen does not help protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Kennen 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 with Kennen.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Kennen on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could mean that Kennen does a decent job of covering Nautilus during team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Kennen
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Kennen?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his ideal synergy. However, overall, Kennen is a relatively poor ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -1.8% to 47.0%. This shows that there is a harmful synergy between Nautilus and Kennen that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kennen has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Kennen allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Kennen together, you probably will not be giving your side much attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kennen teammate, you should focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nautilus in order to synergize with Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to use in your Nautilus and Kennen synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus included at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Kennen than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 47.0% helping carry Kennen with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.0% win rate overall.
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