Nidalee with Hecarim
How to Synergize Nidalee and Hecarim
based on 139 Nidalee with Hecarim pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Hecarim Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Hecarim
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Hecarim
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 Hecarim Will Play
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.
Nidalee Hecarim Synergy Stats
How to Play with Hecarim as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Hecarim synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Hecarim, 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 Hecarim. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Hecarim helps Nidalee perform poorer in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Hecarim, she sees a measurable drop in her complete damage output. This may indicate that Hecarim does not provide protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Hecarim 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 alongside Hecarim.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Hecarim on the same team, she often takes much less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Hecarim does a decent job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Hecarim
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Hecarim?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will no matter what be her ideal teammate. However, Hecarim is a below average teammate for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he lowers their win rate by -2.4% to 42.4%. This proves that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Nidalee and Hecarim that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Hecarim has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when finding Hecarim teammates to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Working together, Nidalee players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nidalee and Hecarim together, you will not be granting your team a lot of utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Hecarim ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nidalee in order to pair well with Hecarim during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to have in your Nidalee and Hecarim synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better as an ally of Hecarim than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 42.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Hecarim with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Magical Footwear, and Future's Market runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nidalee and Hecarim pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.4% win rate overall.
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