Akali with Nidalee
How to Synergize Akali and Nidalee
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Akali Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Akali and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Akali with Nidalee
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Advice to Understand How Nidalee Will Play
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Akali Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Akali in LoL
The Akali Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Akali sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Akali perform poorer in competitive League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Akali is an ally to Nidalee, she gets a moderate decrease in her total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nidalee does not provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Akali is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Akali plays with Nidalee 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 Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Akali during teamfights.
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Is Akali better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best ally for Akali that will always be her #1 teammate. However, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Akali. By locking into the same side as Akali, she drops their win rate by -6.2% to 42.9%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit synergy between Akali and Nidalee that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Akali. That means Akali players need to be cautious when lining up Nidalee comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Akali players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Combined, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Akali and Nidalee together, you will not be providing your other allies a great deal of support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down 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 Akali in order to synergize with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to master additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to have in your Akali and Nidalee synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Akali used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Akali boasted an average win rate of 42.9% when playing alongside Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating your oponents, Akali players should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Domination and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.9% win rate overall.
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