Qiyana with Nautilus
How to Synergize Qiyana and Nautilus
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Qiyana Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Qiyana and Nautilus
Advice to Understand How Nautilus Will Play
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.
Qiyana Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Qiyana in LoL
The Qiyana Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Qiyana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Qiyana perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Qiyana plays on the same team as Nautilus, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may signal that Nautilus does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Qiyana is played with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Qiyana plays with Nautilus on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Qiyana during team fights.
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Is Qiyana better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top companion for Qiyana that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Nautilus is a below average companion for Qiyana. By locking into the same side as Qiyana, he drops their win rate by -2.8% to 45.0%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Qiyana and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Qiyana. That means Qiyana players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to to do a lot of AP damage. When paired, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by aligning Qiyana and Nautilus together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates much AD. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Qiyana to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to build first in your Qiyana and Nautilus synergy build include Edge of Night, Serylda's Grudge, and Axiom Arc. When Qiyana included at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Qiyana had an average win rate of 45.0% when playing alongside Nautilus with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this champion pairing, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 45.0% winrate overall.
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