Nidalee with Maokai
How to Synergize Nidalee and Maokai
based on 884 Nidalee with Maokai pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Maokai Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Maokai
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Maokai
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 Maokai Will Play
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
Nidalee Maokai Synergy Stats
How to Play with Maokai as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Maokai synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Maokai, 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 Maokai. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Maokai helps Nidalee perform poorer in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Maokai, she sees a little increase in her full damage output. This difference could signal that Maokai supports by providing cover for her to dish out more damage or that his support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Maokai on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Maokai. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Maokai.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Maokai on the same side, she on average takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage may indicate that Maokai does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Maokai
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Maokai?
There is no top companion for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her #1 ally. However, overall, Maokai is a good companion for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he raises their win rate by 2.9% to 47.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a good synergy between Nidalee and Maokai that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Maokai has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Maokai comrades to play with, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
When playing alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Maokai together, you may not be giving your other teammates a lot of anti-tank damage dealing potential. Plan to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Maokai ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, 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 pair well with Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to master some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee and Maokai synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Maokai than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.7% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Maokai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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. Of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.7% win rate overall.
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