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How to Synergize Nidalee with Garen on the Same TeamNidalee is in the b tier of champions

Nidalee with Garen

How to Win With Nidalee and Garen Paired TogetherNidalee is in the b tier of champions
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How to Synergize Nidalee and Garen

based on 898 Nidalee with Garen pairs
Win Rate
42.1 %
K/D/A
2.11
Pick Rate
3.5 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

At MOBA Champion, we pull the results of from millions of League of Legends rounds directly from Riot Games each and every week. Nidalee has gone into battle with Garen in 898 recent, competitive games. By amassing so much relevant data directly from the makers of League, we feel confident that we can give you high-quality, accurate builds to help Nidalee synergize with Garen. It is relatively rare for Nidalee to play alongside Garen as teammates. This has only taken place in about 3.5% of matches with Nidalee.

Nidalee Garen Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Nidalee does a awful job of teaming up with Garen. Usually, she wins a lowly 42.1% of rounds the champs fight together on the same side. If you want to win more matches as Nidalee when fighting on the same team as Garen by learning how to better synergize your strategy with him, then review the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Nidalee vs Garen Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Scorchclaw PupHealth Potion

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeDark Seal

Core Nidalee Items

~22 Mins
Rabadon's DeathcapShadowflameStormsurge

Optional Items

Zhonya's HourglassLich BaneHextech Rocketbelt

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonersmite summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Nidalee to level upq
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Second ability for Nidalee to level upe
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Last skill for Nidalee to max outw

Runes

DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactEyeball CollectionTreasure Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Attack SpeedAdaptive ForceArmor
Nidalee's passive ability p
Nidalee's q ability q
Nidalee's w ability w
Nidalee's e ability e
Nidalee's ultimate ability r
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Q
2
E
3
W
4
Q
5
Q
6
R
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Q
8
E
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Q
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E
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R
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E
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W
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R

Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Garen

Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Garen

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 Garen Will Play

Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.

Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.

Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.

Nidalee Garen Synergy Stats

Nidalee Image
Win Rate
42.1 %
VS
Win Rate
57.9 %
Garen Image
6.4
< Kills >
7
6.4
< Deaths >
6.3
7.1
< Assists >
7.3
1.46
< Killing Sprees >
1.61
38
< Minions Killed >
41
1.02
< Dragons Killed >
1.04
0.41
< Inhibitors >
0.44
1,037
< Physical Damage >
1,240
16,370
< Magic Damage >
16,536
912
< True Damage >
975
18,320
< Damage Dealt >
18,752
30,661
< Damage Taken >
31,092
11,128
< Gold Earned >
11,447
1.29
< Towers >
1.45
0.24
< Baron Takedowns >
0.24
15,735
< Total Healing >
16,085
12,606
< Experience >
12,887
25
< Vision Score >
25
8
< Wards Placed >
7
134
< Time Dealing CC >
147

How to Play with Garen as Nidalee in LoL

The Nidalee Garen synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Garen, 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 very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Garen. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Garen helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Nidalee is paired with Garen, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Garen does not help cover for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Garen on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Garen. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Garen.

Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Garen on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Receiving not as much damage may indicate that Garen does a decent job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.

Synergies between Nidalee and Garen

Damage Types Compared

Nidalee
Garen
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Nidalee
Garen

Is Nidalee better when played alongside Garen?

There is no perfect synergy for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her #1 synergy. Yet, Garen is a not very good companion for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he decreases their win rate by -2.7% to 42.1%. This shows that there is a negative bond between Nidalee and Garen that results in them performing worse together than without each other.

Garen has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be very careful when arranging Garen allies to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to work well with you.

Fighting together, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. Combined, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.

Although, by grouping Nidalee and Garen together, you may not be providing your team much crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's kit.

Regardless of your Garen ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Nidalee Players

How We Calculated Our Nidalee Garen Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Nidalee and Garen, we analyzed 898 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Nidalee with Garen comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to work well with Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.

The ideal finished items to prioritize in your Nidalee and Garen synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three great items in her build, she did much better as an ally of Garen than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.1% when playing alongside Garen with this build.

To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.1% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Garen with Nidalee are presented for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.