Rakan with Nautilus
How to Synergize Rakan and Nautilus
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Rakan Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Rakan vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Rakan and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Rakan with Nautilus
Rakan's dash speeds increase with his Move Speed. Use the extra speed to surprise your enemies!
Danger is as fun as you let it be.
Rakan requires allies near him to make the most out of his tools.
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.
Rakan Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Rakan in LoL
The Rakan Nautilus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nautilus, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Rakan sees a very large drop in his 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 Rakan perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Rakan is paired with Nautilus, he gets a big jump in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nautilus helps provide cover for him to deal more damage or that his participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Rakan is played with Nautilus 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 alongside Nautilus.
Moreover, when Rakan plays with Nautilus on the same side, he on average takes a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Nautilus does a poor job of protecting Rakan in team fights.
Synergies between Rakan and Nautilus
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Is Rakan better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no one best companion for Rakan that will 100% of the time be his best teammate. Yet, overall, Nautilus is a below average teammate for Rakan. By playing on the same side as Rakan, he drops their win rate by -2.7% to 47.9%. This demonstrates that there is a bad strategic relationship between Rakan and Nautilus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Rakan. That means Rakan players should be cautious when lining up Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. Together, these two will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by bringing Rakan and Nautilus together, you probably will not be providing your other teammates enough sustained damage output. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in their playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rakan to work well with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best finished items to get in your Rakan and Nautilus synergy build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Solstice Sleigh. When Rakan combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Rakan had an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Rakan players should use the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Ultimate Hunter, and Zombie Ward runes from the Resolve and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nautilus with Rakan are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.