Nautilus with Olaf
How to Synergize Nautilus and Olaf
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Nautilus Olaf Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Olaf
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Olaf
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 Olaf Will Play
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Nautilus Olaf Synergy Stats
How to Play with Olaf as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Olaf helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Olaf, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change could signal that Olaf does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Olaf on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Olaf.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Olaf on the same side, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Olaf
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Olaf?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his ideal synergy. However, Olaf is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, he drops their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is only a small bond between Nautilus and Olaf that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when enlisting Olaf teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nautilus players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by bringing Nautilus and Olaf together, you will not be providing your other teammates very much AP. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Olaf ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to pair well with Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to learn some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Nautilus and Olaf synergy build consist of Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Nautilus used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Olaf than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 47.9% when playing alongside Olaf with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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