Nautilus with Maokai
How to Synergize Nautilus and Maokai
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Nautilus Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Nautilus Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Nautilus perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Maokai, he sees a noticable increase in his full damage output. This difference may demonstrate that Maokai helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Maokai 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 Maokai.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Maokai on the same team, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage could mean that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Maokai
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no ideal synergy for Nautilus that will always be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Maokai is a below average companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Nautilus and Maokai that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be careful when lining up Maokai allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing together, Nautilus players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to tank a lot of damage. When paired, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Maokai together, you may not be granting your team much sustained damage output. Make sure to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus in order to synergize with Maokai during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Nautilus and Maokai synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better as an ally of Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average winrate of 45.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating 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 runes players used for Nautilus and Maokai pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
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