Nautilus with Zilean
How to Synergize Nautilus and Zilean
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Nautilus Zilean Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Zilean
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Zilean
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 Zilean Will Play
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Nautilus Zilean Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zilean as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Zilean synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zilean, 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 Zilean. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Zilean helps Nautilus perform worse in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nautilus is an ally to Zilean, he observes a great improvement in his complete damage dealt. This may indicate that Zilean supports by providing protection 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 together with Zilean on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Zilean.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Zilean on the same team, he usually receives significantly more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Zilean does a poor job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Zilean
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Zilean?
There is no perfect ally for Nautilus that will no matter what be his top ally. Yet, Zilean is a top-tier ally for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he improves their win rate by 4.7% to 53.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very real synergy between Nautilus and Zilean that results in them performing better together than alone.
Zilean has a lower difficulty than Nautilus. That means you don't need to be careful when lining up Zilean teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magical damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by grouping Nautilus and Zilean together, you will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of AD. We recommend you have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of the ability of your Zilean ally, you need to focus on maximizing your 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 truly master Nautilus to pair well with Zilean during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to pick up some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to get in your Nautilus and Zilean synergy build include Unending Despair, Zeke's Convergence, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Zilean than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nautilus boasted an average win rate of 53.5% when playing alongside Zilean with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating 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 combinations players used for this team composition, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 53.5% win rate overall.
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