Hecarim with Nidalee
How to Synergize Hecarim and Nidalee
based on 139 Hecarim with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Hecarim Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Hecarim vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Hecarim and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Hecarim with Nidalee
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
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.
Hecarim Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Hecarim in LoL
The Hecarim 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, Hecarim sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nidalee helps Hecarim perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Hecarim is an ally to Nidalee, he sees a noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This difference could demonstrate that Nidalee does not support by providing cover for him to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Hecarim is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Hecarim plays with Nidalee on the same side, he usually receives less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Hecarim during teamfights.
Synergies between Hecarim and Nidalee
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Is Hecarim better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect synergy for Hecarim that will 100% of the time be his top teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Hecarim. By being on the same team as Hecarim, she drops their win rate by -6.1% to 42.4%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Hecarim and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Hecarim. That means you should be very careful when finding Nidalee allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Playing alongside, Hecarim players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Hecarim and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates much crowd control. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on increasing 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
If you would like to truly master Hecarim to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Hecarim and Nidalee synergy build include Eclipse, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Hecarim incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 42.4% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Hecarim players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Ingenious Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.4% win rate overall.
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