Nautilus with Naafiri
How to Synergize Nautilus and Naafiri
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Nautilus Naafiri Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Naafiri
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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 Naafiri Will Play
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Nautilus Naafiri Synergy Stats
How to Play with Naafiri as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Naafiri synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Naafiri, 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 Naafiri. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Naafiri helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Naafiri, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This change may indicate that Naafiri doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that their presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played with Naafiri 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 Naafiri.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Naafiri on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Naafiri does a decent job of covering Nautilus in team fights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Naafiri
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Naafiri?
There is no perfect ally for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Naafiri is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, they increases their win rate by 0.9% to 49.7%. This demonstrates that there is only a small bond between Nautilus and Naafiri that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Naafiri has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Naafiri teammates 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 play well with you.
Working together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Naafiri together, you may not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Make sure to have other champions on your team that fills this relative gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Naafiri ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to synergize with Naafiri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to include in your Nautilus and Naafiri synergy build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Nautilus included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when paired up with Naafiri than with many other common builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 49.7% when playing alongside Naafiri with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing your oponents, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nautilus and Naafiri pairings, this order of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.7% win rate overall.
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