Zac with Nautilus
How to Synergize Zac and Nautilus
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Zac Nautilus Synergy Summary
Best Zac vs Nautilus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zac and Nautilus
Tips for Playing as Zac with Nautilus
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac Nautilus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nautilus as Zac in LoL
The Zac 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, Zac 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 negative change shows that Nautilus helps Zac perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zac is an ally to Nautilus, he sees a little increase in his full damage output. This change may indicate that Nautilus supports by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zac is played together with 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 with Nautilus.
Additionally, when Zac plays with Nautilus on the same side, he usually receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nautilus does a poor job of covering Zac in team fights.
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Is Zac better when played alongside Nautilus?
There is no perfect companion for Zac that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Nautilus is a very bad companion for Zac. By locking into the same side as Zac, he lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 48.6%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zac and Nautilus that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nautilus has a lower difficulty than Zac. That means Zac players don't need to be cautious when enlisting Nautilus comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Zac players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
In contrast, by bringing Zac and Nautilus together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of attack damage. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Nautilus ally's ability, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zac in order to synergize with Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top items to prioritize in your Zac and Nautilus synergy build consist of Spirit Visage, Thornmail, and Randuin's Omen. When Zac included at least these three great items in his build, he performed significantly better when fighting alongside Nautilus than with many other typical builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 48.6% when playing alongside Nautilus with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating your oponents, Zac players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 48.6% win rate overall.
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