Nautilus with Varus
How to Synergize Nautilus and Varus
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Nautilus Varus Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Varus
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Nautilus Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Varus helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is paired with Varus, he observes a little increase in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Varus provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played together with Varus 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 synergisticly with Varus.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Varus on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage could mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Varus
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Varus?
There is no perfect synergy for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his top ally. Yet, Varus is a not very good ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -2.3% to 46.5%. This signals that there is a negative synergy between Nautilus and Varus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be careful when enlisting Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nautilus players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by bringing Nautilus and Varus together, you will not be granting your side very much cover. Plan to include other champs on your team that fills this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Varus ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your 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
To learn all of the intricacies of Nautilus to synergize with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nautilus and Varus synergy build include Thornmail, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Varus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing alongside Varus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should equip 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 sets players used for this team composition, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.5% win rate overall.
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