Nidalee with Caitlyn
How to Synergize Nidalee and Caitlyn
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Nidalee Caitlyn Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Caitlyn
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Caitlyn
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.
Advice to Understand How Caitlyn Will Play
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
Nidalee Caitlyn Synergy Stats
How to Play with Caitlyn as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Caitlyn synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Caitlyn, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nidalee sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Caitlyn. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Caitlyn helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is an ally to Caitlyn, she gets a little decrease in her total damage output. This difference could demonstrate that Caitlyn does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Caitlyn on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Caitlyn.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Caitlyn on the same side, she typically takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Caitlyn does a poor job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Caitlyn
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Caitlyn?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her best ally. However, Caitlyn is a very typical companion for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, she drops their win rate by -0.1% to 44.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak strategic relationship between Nidalee and Caitlyn that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Caitlyn has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when arranging Caitlyn allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Playing cooperatively, Nidalee players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Caitlyn together, you will not be giving your other teammates a lot of engage. Plan to have other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Caitlyn ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to work well with Caitlyn during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to get in your Nidalee and Caitlyn synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Caitlyn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.7% helping carry Caitlyn with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Nidalee and Caitlyn pairings, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.7% win rate overall.
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