Nidalee with Zed
How to Synergize Nidalee and Zed
based on 1,125 Nidalee with Zed pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Zed Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Zed
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 Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Nidalee Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, 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 Zed. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is an ally to Zed, she gets a little increase in her complete damage output. This change could indicate that Zed supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Zed on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Zed.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Zed on the same team, she usually receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Zed does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during team fights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Zed
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Zed?
There is no ideal ally for Nidalee that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Zed is a very typical teammate for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -1.0% to 43.8%. This signals that there is only a small bond between Nidalee and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Zed comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by aligning Nidalee and Zed together, you may not be granting your team very much crowd control. Plan to bring other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Zed ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to synergize with Zed during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Nidalee and Zed synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Zed than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 43.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Zed with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against 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 rune builds players used for this team composition, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.8% winrate overall.
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