Nautilus with Malzahar
How to Synergize Nautilus and Malzahar
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Nautilus Malzahar Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Malzahar
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Malzahar
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 Malzahar Will Play
Use Call of the Void and Nether Grasp to renew the duration of Malefic Visions on enemies.
Wait to cast Void Swarm until there are nearby enemies for the Voidling to attack or kill.
Avoiding damage in lane maximizes the uptime on Void Shift, increasing Malzahar's safety dramatically.
Nautilus Malzahar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Malzahar as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Malzahar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Malzahar, 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 Malzahar. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Malzahar helps Nautilus perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Malzahar, he observes a small increase in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Malzahar supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Malzahar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Malzahar. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Malzahar.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Malzahar on the same side, he usually takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Malzahar does a poor job of covering Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Malzahar
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Malzahar?
There is no perfect ally for Nautilus that will always be his top teammate. However, Malzahar is a pretty good teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, he improves their win rate by 2.1% to 50.9%. This shows that there is pretty good bond between Nautilus and Malzahar that results in them performing at the top of their game together than without each other.
Malzahar has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Malzahar comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working on the same side, Nautilus players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Malzahar together, you probably will not be granting your team a lot of sustained damage output. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Malzahar teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, 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 learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to pair well with Malzahar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Nautilus and Malzahar synergy build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus bought at least these three great items in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Malzahar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 50.9% helping carry Malzahar with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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