Nautilus with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Nautilus and Xin Zhao
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Nautilus Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Nautilus Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus is paired with Xin Zhao, he gets a little decrease in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Xin Zhao does not support by providing protection for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Xin Zhao 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 Xin Zhao.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Xin Zhao on the same team, he often takes a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Xin Zhao does a decent job of protecting Nautilus during team fights.
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nautilus that will 100% of the time be his #1 ally. However, overall, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same side as Nautilus, he decreases their win rate by -0.9% to 47.9%. This shows that there is only a small bond between Nautilus and Xin Zhao that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Nautilus. That means Nautilus players don't need to be careful when arranging Xin Zhao comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nautilus and Xin Zhao together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates enough support. We recommend you have other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Xin Zhao ally's skill level, 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 in order to pair well with Xin Zhao during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to focus on in your Nautilus and Xin Zhao synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Nautilus players should use the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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