Xerath with Nidalee
How to Synergize Xerath and Nidalee
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Xerath Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Xerath vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Xerath and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Xerath with Nidalee
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Xerath in LoL
The Xerath 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, Xerath sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Xerath perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Xerath tries to synergize with Nidalee, he gets a barely noticable drop in his complete damage output. This difference may indicate that Nidalee doesn't help protection for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Xerath is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Xerath plays with Nidalee on the same side, he often receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Xerath in teamfights.
Synergies between Xerath and Nidalee
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Is Xerath better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Xerath that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. However, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Xerath. By being on the same side as Xerath, she drops their win rate by -7.7% to 42.9%. This signals that there is a very bad strategic relationship between Xerath and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Xerath. That means you don't need to be very careful when finding Nidalee allies to play with, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to cooperate well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing Xerath and Nidalee together, you may not be giving your side a lot of attack damage. Plan to pick other champions on your team that helps cover this hole in their abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should 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 Xerath in order to synergize with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to build first in your Xerath and Nidalee synergy build consist of Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Xerath had an average winrate of 42.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Xerath players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Xerath and Nidalee pairings, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.9% winrate overall.
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