Nautilus with Riven
How to Synergize Nautilus and Riven
based on 4,811 Nautilus with Riven pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nautilus Riven Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Riven Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Riven
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Riven
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 Riven Will Play
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
Nautilus Riven Synergy Stats
How to Play with Riven as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Riven synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Riven, 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 Riven. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Riven helps Nautilus perform worse in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Riven, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may signal that Riven does not provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Riven on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Riven.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Riven on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Riven does a decent job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Riven
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Riven?
There is no ideal ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his top ally. However, Riven is a very typical teammate for Nautilus. By locking into the same side as Nautilus, she decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This proves that there is only a small synergy between Nautilus and Riven that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Riven has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players should be careful when finding Riven allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working together, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nautilus and Riven together, you probably will not be giving your team much AP. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Riven ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to work well with Riven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to include in your Nautilus and Riven synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting alongside Riven than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 47.9% helping carry Riven with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nautilus and Riven pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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