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

Nidalee with Graves

How to Win With Nidalee and Graves Paired TogetherNidalee is in the a tier of champions
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How to Synergize Nidalee and Graves

based on 320 Nidalee with Graves pairs
Win Rate
47.5 %
K/D/A
2.18
Pick Rate
1.2 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

Our servers pull the stats from from millions of League games straight from Riot Games each week. Nidalee has fought alongside Graves in 320 recently played, competitive games. By pooling so much great data directly from the developers of LoL, we are sure that we can present to you high quality, insightful builds to help Nidalee play with Graves. It is very rare for Nidalee to play alongside Graves on the same team. This has only taken place in approximately 1.2% of matches with Nidalee.

Nidalee Graves Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Nidalee does a below average job of synergizing with Graves. On average, she wins a lowly 47.5% of games the champs appear on the same team. If you want to play better as Nidalee when playing with Graves by figuring out how to better synergize your play style with him, then review the complete build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Nidalee vs Graves Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionWorld Atlas

Early Items

~5 Mins
Amplifying TomeHextech Alternator

Core Nidalee Items

~22 Mins
Lich BaneShadowflameStormsurge

Optional Items

Zaz'Zak's Realmspike

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerdot 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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W
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Q
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Q
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Graves

Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Graves

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 Graves Will Play

Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.

Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.

Nidalee Graves Synergy Stats

Nidalee Image
Win Rate
47.5 %
VS
Win Rate
52.5 %
Graves Image
6.6
< Kills >
7
6.5
< Deaths >
6.3
7.6
< Assists >
7.3
1.49
< Killing Sprees >
1.61
82
< Minions Killed >
41
0.41
< Dragons Killed >
1.04
0.48
< Inhibitors >
0.44
1,810
< Physical Damage >
1,240
17,353
< Magic Damage >
16,536
813
< True Damage >
975
19,977
< Damage Dealt >
18,752
26,274
< Damage Taken >
31,092
10,989
< Gold Earned >
11,447
1.8
< Towers >
1.45
0.08
< Baron Takedowns >
0.24
10,590
< Total Healing >
16,085
12,444
< Experience >
12,887
33
< Vision Score >
25
13
< Wards Placed >
7
130
< Time Dealing CC >
147

How to Play with Graves as Nidalee in LoL

The Nidalee Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Nidalee plays on the same team as Graves, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Graves supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.

Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Graves on the same side, she usually receives much less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Nidalee in team fights.

Synergies between Nidalee and Graves

Damage Types Compared

Nidalee
Graves
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Nidalee
Graves

Is Nidalee better when played alongside Graves?

There is no perfect synergy for Nidalee that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Graves is a decent teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nidalee and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.

Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.

When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.

In contrast, by pairing Nidalee and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your side very much utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.

Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Nidalee Players

How We Calculated Our Nidalee Graves Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Nidalee and Graves, we analyzed 320 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 Graves 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 to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.

The most important items to have in your Nidalee and Graves synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Graves with this build.

To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.

By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to pair Graves with Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.