Kai'Sa with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kai'Sa and Nidalee
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Kai'Sa Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kai'Sa and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa with Nidalee
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kai'Sa in LoL
The Kai'Sa 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, Kai'Sa sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nidalee helps Kai'Sa perform poorer in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kai'Sa tries to synergize with Nidalee, she gets a little decrease in her total damage dealt. This could signal that Nidalee does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kai'Sa is played alongside Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Kai'Sa plays with Nidalee on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Kai'Sa in team fights.
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Is Kai'Sa better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best ally for Kai'Sa that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a not very good companion for Kai'Sa. By playing on the same team as Kai'Sa, she decreases their win rate by -2.9% to 43.6%. This signals that there is a bad bond between Kai'Sa and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Kai'Sa. That means you must be careful when finding Nidalee teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Playing cooperatively, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Together, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by pairing Kai'Sa and Nidalee together, you may not be granting your other teammates a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that offsets this gap in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to get in your Kai'Sa and Nidalee synergy build consist of Wit's End, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa incorporated at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average win rate of 43.6% helping carry Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating your oponents, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Kai'Sa and Nidalee pairings, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.6% win rate overall.
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