Riven with Nautilus
How to Synergize Riven and Nautilus
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Riven Nautilus Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Riven and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Riven with Nautilus
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Riven in LoL
The Riven 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, Riven sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nautilus helps Riven perform not as well in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Riven is an ally to Nautilus, she sees a little drop in her full damage output. This change may signal that Nautilus does not support by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Riven is played together with Nautilus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Riven plays with Nautilus on the same team, she on average takes a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Riven during team fights.
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Is Riven better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no top champion pairing for Riven that will always be her best ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor companion for Riven. By playing on the same side as Riven, he drops their win rate by -2.2% to 47.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Riven and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Riven. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nautilus teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing on the same side, Riven players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Riven and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your side very much magic damage. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on increasing 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 learn all of the intricacies of Riven to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal finished items to get in your Riven and Nautilus synergy build consist of Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Riven and Nautilus pairings, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.9% winrate overall.
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