Alistar with Nidalee
How to Synergize Alistar and Nidalee
based on 403 Alistar with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Alistar Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Alistar vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Alistar and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Alistar with Nidalee
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Alistar in LoL
The Alistar Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Alistar sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Alistar perform worse in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Alistar plays on the same team as Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This may indicate that Nidalee doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Alistar is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Alistar plays with Nidalee on the same side, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Alistar during team fights.
Synergies between Alistar and Nidalee
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Is Alistar better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best synergy for Alistar that will no matter what be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Alistar. By being on the same side as Alistar, she drops their win rate by -6.2% to 43.2%. This demonstrates that there is a very bad bond between Alistar and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Alistar. That means you need to be careful when finding Nidalee teammates to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, Alistar players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to cover for your other teammates. Together, these champions will be a great protective duo.
Conversely, by aligning Alistar and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your other allies enough anti-tank damage dealing potential. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, 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
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to synergize with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to have in your Alistar and Nidalee synergy build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Alistar combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Alistar boasted an average win rate of 43.2% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating your oponents, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Alistar and Nidalee pairings, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.2% win rate overall.
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