Nidalee with Xin Zhao
How to Synergize Nidalee and Xin Zhao
based on 245 Nidalee with Xin Zhao pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Xin Zhao Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Xin Zhao Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Xin Zhao
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Xin Zhao
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 Xin Zhao Will Play
Try to position yourself so your ultimate's knockback is most effective.
Xin Zhao is a great initiator to combat. Lead the front to start a fight and use your ultimate to do the most damage possible.
Nidalee Xin Zhao Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xin Zhao as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Xin Zhao synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xin Zhao, 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 Xin Zhao. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Xin Zhao helps Nidalee perform worse in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is paired with Xin Zhao, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Xin Zhao provides cover for her to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Xin Zhao on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xin Zhao.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Xin Zhao on the same side, she often takes much less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may indicate that Xin Zhao does a decent job of covering Nidalee in team fights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Xin Zhao
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Xin Zhao?
There is no ideal synergy for Nidalee that will no matter what be her ideal ally. Yet, Xin Zhao is a very typical ally for Nidalee. By playing on the same side as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -0.3% to 44.5%. This demonstrates that there is not really a strong synergy between Nidalee and Xin Zhao that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Xin Zhao has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when finding Xin Zhao teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing together, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Nidalee and Xin Zhao together, you may not be providing your other teammates a great deal of utility. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Xin Zhao ally, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to work well with Xin Zhao during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to master additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to have in your Nidalee and Xin Zhao synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee combined at least these three great items in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Xin Zhao than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.5% when playing alongside Xin Zhao with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should equip 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 chose for Nidalee and Xin Zhao pairings, this combo of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Xin Zhao with Nidalee are given for all skill levels combined. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.