Skarner with Nautilus
How to Synergize Skarner and Nautilus
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Skarner Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Skarner vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Skarner and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Skarner with Nautilus
Impale is extremely powerful when you use it to position an enemy so your allies can attack them.
Basic attacks reduce the cooldown of Crystal Slash. Use them as often as possible for maximum damage.
Capturing Crystal Spires before attempting neutral objectives or team fights around them improves Skarner's performance in said fights dramatically.
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.
Skarner Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Skarner in LoL
The Skarner 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, Skarner sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nautilus helps Skarner perform not as well in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Skarner plays on the same team as Nautilus, he gets a little drop in his total damage dealt. This difference may indicate that Nautilus does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Skarner is played alongside Nautilus on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nautilus. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nautilus.
Additionally, when Skarner plays with Nautilus on the same team, he usually takes less damage than when he fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Skarner in teamfights.
Synergies between Skarner and Nautilus
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Is Skarner better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Skarner that will 100% of the time be his best ally. However, Nautilus is a terrible teammate for Skarner. By playing on the same team as Skarner, he lowers their win rate by -3.6% to 44.7%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Skarner and Nautilus that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Skarner. That means you must be very careful when finding Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these two will be able to tank for the rest of their team.
In contrast, by bringing Skarner and Nautilus together, you may not be providing your team much attack damage. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nautilus teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Skarner in order to work well with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to master a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Skarner and Nautilus synergy build include Trinity Force, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Skarner included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better when paired up with Nautilus than with most other typical builds. In fact, Skarner had an average winrate of 44.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nautilus with this build.
To have the greatest probability of beating your oponents, Skarner players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.7% winrate overall.
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