Shaco with Nidalee
How to Synergize Shaco and Nidalee
based on 398 Shaco with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shaco Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Shaco vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Core Shaco Items
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Guide to Synergizing Shaco and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Shaco with Nidalee
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
Advice to Understand How Nidalee Will Play
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.
Shaco Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Shaco in LoL
The Shaco Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shaco sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Shaco perform poorer in competitive LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Shaco plays on the same team as Nidalee, he observes a small decrease in his complete damage output. This could demonstrate that Nidalee doesn't help cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Shaco is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Shaco plays with Nidalee on the same side, he often takes much less damage than when he fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Shaco during teamfights.
Synergies between Shaco and Nidalee
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Is Shaco better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Shaco that will always be his #1 teammate. Yet, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Shaco. By being on the same team as Shaco, she drops their win rate by -5.7% to 43.7%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit strategic relationship between Shaco and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Shaco. That means Shaco players don't need to be cautious when lining up Nidalee comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Playing together, Shaco players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shaco and Nidalee together, you may not be granting your other allies a lot of support. Make sure to include other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their kit.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shaco to pair well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The best finished items to build first in your Shaco and Nidalee synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shaco boasted an average winrate of 43.7% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should take the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Shaco and Nidalee pairings, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 43.7% win rate overall.
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