Nautilus with Lucian
How to Synergize Nautilus and Lucian
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Nautilus Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Nautilus Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lucian helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Lucian, he sees a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This may signal that Lucian helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Lucian.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Lucian on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Lucian does a poor job of protecting Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Lucian
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nautilus that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Lucian is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -0.8% to 48.0%. This proves that there is a weak synergy between Nautilus and Lucian that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Lucian teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing together, Nautilus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Lucian together, you will not be granting your team enough magic damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lucian ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to pair well with Lucian during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Nautilus and Lucian 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 performed much better when fighting alongside Lucian than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 48.0% helping carry Lucian with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for this team composition, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.0% win rate overall.
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