Volibear with Nautilus
How to Synergize Volibear and Nautilus
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Volibear Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Volibear vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Volibear 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.
Volibear Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Volibear in LoL
The Volibear 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, Volibear sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nautilus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nautilus helps Volibear perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Volibear is paired with Nautilus, he observes a little increase in his full damage output. This difference could signal that Nautilus helps provide cover for him to dish out more damage or that his support also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Volibear 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 synergisticly with Nautilus.
Moreover, when Volibear plays with Nautilus on the same team, he on average receives a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could indicate that Nautilus does a decent job of protecting Volibear in teamfights.
Synergies between Volibear and Nautilus
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Is Volibear better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no perfect ally for Volibear that will always be his #1 teammate. However, overall, Nautilus is a relatively poor ally for Volibear. By locking into the same team as Volibear, he lowers their win rate by -1.4% to 46.6%. This signals that there is a negative bond between Volibear and Nautilus that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nautilus has a greater difficulty than Volibear. That means you must be very careful when arranging Nautilus teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing alongside, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions might be able to provide enough cover for their team's carries.
In contrast, by bringing Volibear and Nautilus together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much magical damage output. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative hole in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nautilus ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Volibear in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Volibear and Nautilus synergy build include Frozen Heart, Nashor's Tooth, and Riftmaker. When Volibear combined at least these three finished items in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nautilus than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Volibear boasted an average win rate of 46.6% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Volibear and Nautilus pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.6% winrate overall.
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