Nautilus with Zac
How to Synergize Nautilus and Zac
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Nautilus Zac Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Zac
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Zac
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 Zac Will Play
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
Nautilus Zac Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zac as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Zac synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zac, 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 very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zac. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zac helps Nautilus perform poorer in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus tries to synergize with Zac, he gets a marginal improvement in his complete damage output. This change may indicate that Zac supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Zac on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zac.
Additionally, when Nautilus plays with Zac on the same team, he on average receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Zac does a poor job of protecting Nautilus in teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Zac
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Zac?
There is no one best companion for Nautilus that will always be his top ally. However, Zac is a very typical companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he lowers their win rate by -0.2% to 48.6%. This proves that there is not really a strong bond between Nautilus and Zac that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Zac has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you must be careful when lining up Zac allies to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to play well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nautilus players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Nautilus and Zac together, you may not be granting your team a great deal of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to include other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Zac ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing 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 truly master Nautilus in order to synergize with Zac during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Nautilus and Zac synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Knight's Vow, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better as an ally of Zac than with most other common builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average winrate of 48.6% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Zac with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Nautilus and Zac pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.6% win rate overall.
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