Nidalee with Katarina
How to Synergize Nidalee and Katarina
based on 730 Nidalee with Katarina pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Katarina Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Katarina
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Katarina
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 Katarina Will Play
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Nidalee Katarina Synergy Stats
How to Play with Katarina as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Katarina synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Katarina, 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 Katarina. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Katarina helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Katarina, she gets a little drop in her full damage output. This change could signal that Katarina does not support by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Katarina on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Katarina. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Katarina.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Katarina on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Katarina does a decent job of covering Nidalee during teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Katarina
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Katarina?
There is no ideal synergy for Nidalee that will no matter what be her best synergy. Yet, Katarina is a pretty good companion for Nidalee. By locking into the same team as Nidalee, she raises their win rate by 1.1% to 45.9%. This proves that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nidalee and Katarina that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Katarina has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when lining up Katarina comrades to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting alongside, Nidalee players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. When paired, these champs can blast through enemies with magic damage.
In contrast, by grouping Nidalee and Katarina together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this gap in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Katarina ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, 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 to synergize with Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to pick up some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to focus on in your Nidalee and Katarina synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better as an ally of Katarina than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 45.9% when playing alongside Katarina with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of beating 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 builds that we analyzed for Nidalee and Katarina pairings, this order of runes resulted in the top win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Katarina with Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.