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With the massive amounts of CC built into Nautilus, the root on your Staggering Blow, and the hook provided by your Dredge Line, can both proc Glacial Augment extremely easily. This provides an icy patch of ground for 3s baseline, which slows enemies and reduces their damage dealt to your allies by 15%, which is like a mini Exhaust!

Hextech Flashtraption provides you with an extra, channeled Flash after you've used your base one. This means that you can use it to surprise your enemies from fog of war, and also works like normal Flash over walls, so you can continue to make aggressive plays.

Biscuit Delivery restore's 8% of your hp and mana, and you get 3 of these over the course of 6 minutes, meaning you can sustain in lane longer. This is useful for Nautilus to continue making aggressive plays without having to recall. It also increases your mana cap by 120 in total. Minion Dematerializer can also be taken against lanes that are poke heavy and will harass you when you go to last hit.

Cosmic Insight provides you with item haste, which is great for Locket of the Iron Solari's onuse, and you also get summoner spell haste, meaning you get your Flash and Ignite back sooner - meaning more aggression!

Bone Plating provides you with a small shield that reduces damage taken for the next 3 attacks from enemies, which is a great bonus for engaging in lane and can be the difference between dying or living in a close fight. Second Wind can be taken if you're against a poke mage such as Lux or Vel'Koz, as you'll regen some hp after taking damage from them. Conditioning is also a good choice if you're planning on going to late game and you don't have another tank on your team (not that you should be the primary tank!)

Unflinching gives you tenacity and slow resist, increasing up to 20% when you drop to 30% hp, meaning you can escape from CC easier, very useful on an engage champion, heading into the thick of the battle!

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Boots of Mobility > MOVEMENT SPEED These are the cheapest boots in the game, but often the most useful - especially on a support, and one that can engage at that. Nautilus wants to roam a lot, and catch people out, so having the bonus movement speed is invaluable. Mercury's Treads > TENACITY/AP RESIST If the enemy team has a lot of CC, or a lot of AP damage, you can trade Mobi's out for these. They offer +25 magic resist, along with reducing the effect of stuns, slows, taunts, fears, silences, blinds and immobilizes by 30%. Plated Steelcaps > ARMOR If the enemy team has a lot of physical damage threats, and you're the primary front line, or need some extra survivability, Plated Steelcaps's are the way to go, offering 20 armor, and reducing incoming basic attacks by 12%.

Zeke's Convergence > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/MANA Zeke's is a fantastic item on Nautilus as it offers armor, magic resist, ability haste and an extra 250 mana. When immobilizing an enemy, a missile is fired at them, dealing bonus magic damage.

Redemption > CDR/HP+MANA REGEN/SUSTAIN Redemption offers an aoe heal in an area, add a sustain for his allies that Nautilus' kit lacks. It also offers HP and Mana regen, meaning you can stay in the fights longer, recall less, and you can help out even while dead. It also offers an extra 10% shielding power, which synergizes with your Titan's Wrath.

Locket of the Iron Solari > SURVIVABILITY/SUSTAIN With Locket of the Iron Solari, you gain 30 armor and 30 magic resist, increasing your overall tankiness, while providing a shield to your allies upon use - and you also provide nearby allies 5 bonus armor and magic resist. It also empowers other legendary items to increase passive bonus resistances by 2.

Knight's Vow > SURVIVABILITY/CDR/SUSTAIN You gain extra HP, 25 armor and Ability haste with this item which are all great stats. If your ally is nearby, you redirect 10% of the damage they take, to yourself (increasing their survivability), and you heal for 10% of the damage they deal. If they are below 30% max hp, you take 20% damage instead, but this redirection will stop if you hit 30% hp. Usually a core item to take vs physical damage.

Thornmail > SURVIVABILITY/UTILITY Providing us with 60 armor and 350hp, Thornmail also deals 10 (+10% bonus armor) magic damage to the attacker, and inflict 40% grievous wounds upon them. Immobilizing enemy champions inflicts 60% grievous wounds - a good pickup vs heavy AD teams with a lot of healing behind them.

Gargoyle Stoneplate > SURVIVABILITY/SUSTAIN/UTILITY Gargoyle Stoneplate provides you with some extra tankiness in the form of Armor and Magic Resist. It's most effective in the later stages of the game, when team fights are more prevalent, so you can trigger the passive effect reliably. The active effect really shines in those same scenarios, allowing you to survive through the fight and maintain control of the enemy threats.

Level 1 you will want to be levelling your Dredge Line as it's your primary engage tool, and can get you early level 1 kills. You can set up an invade if your team is not afk in base - going through the midlane to the right brush, as you will not be seen by the enemy until it's too late.

You can also set up a brush cheese in lane, and engage straight away onto your opposing laners with Dredge Line, minimum you should be able to blow 1 or both of their Flash, and at best you can get at least one kill.

When you're in laning phase, you want to be a dominant force,pushing and zoning the
enemy laners out of cs'ing, with the threat of a Dredge Line engage, or a Flash all in.

You want to be looking all the time for potential hook opportunities, granting your ADC easy kills or setting up a gank from your ally jungler.

If you're laning vs a Morgana and/or a Sivir, you'll want to bait their Black Shield and Spell Shield before you make an all in, they're on relatively long cooldowns at the lower levels (26s and 22s), so you can take advantage of this. Baiting can be achieved by any means, moving in an aggressive way, getting into their face to take advantage of your Staggering Blow, or if your ADC has baited a spell such as Jhin's Deadly Flourish.

Level 2 you want to be skilling up Riptide for the slow, so there's even less chance your opposing laners can escape your engage. Then it's onto Titan's Wrath, which is synergistic with Shield Bash, and the reason you take that rune. It also gives you more survivability on your all-in.
You want Control Wards around your bottom brushes to be aware of any impeding ganks coming, and to deny the enemies any vision of where your jungler or you, may be.

Proccing your Runesteel Spaulders, you'll want to be focusing the cannon minions as priority, then melee minions, and lastly ranged.

Once you get your first back, hopefully with at least one or two kills under your belt, you want to be getting Mobility Boots for the roaming potential, and due to the support item upgrade in Season 10, you can focus on buying your core items asap such as Zeke's Convergence. You can set up kills for your midlaner and get them ahead, along with your ADC.
If you can't roam, you want to be maximizing gold for your ADC, and this includes taking tower plates after kills. You can tower dive around level 3 with your Titan's Wrath, depending on an ADC such as Draven, or Tristana, with her easy escape.


Outside of laning phase, you're going to want to be setting up a lot of wards around objectives, such as Baron Nashor and the drakes. If your team is ahead, and it is safe to do so, you can set up deep vision in the enemies jungle, allowing yourself and your team to get important picks, that allow you to take the previously mentioned objectives.

As tanky as Nautilus is, you mostly want to be around your team, and helping out your ADC to (hopefully) continue his lead. You can still set up kills for him, and you're a strong threat to think about for an enemy wanting to set up a gank, as it's very easy for the tides to turn in your favor.

During teamfights, you'll either be wanting to make the engage on an important target, such as the enemies ADC, or a backline mage, or you will want to be peeling your ADC from targets such as Zed or Kayn. Your kit is overloaded with cc, meaning you can 100-0 an enemy assassin in one burst window.

The main thing to be aware of, is making sure your teams threats stay alive, while removing, or zoning, the enemy teams threats.

Control Ward's are a staple part of any support, both to deny your enemies vision, and to provide your team extra vision. You should make sure to buy one at least every time you back, preferably to have 2 on you at all times, increased to 3 with Watchful Wardstone.

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