Zed with Nidalee
How to Synergize Zed and Nidalee
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Zed Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Zed and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Zed with Nidalee
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.
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.
Zed Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Zed in LoL
The Zed 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, Zed sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nidalee helps Zed perform poorer in ranked LoL matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Zed is an ally to Nidalee, he sees a little increase in his full damage dealt. This difference may demonstrate that Nidalee provides cover for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zed is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Zed plays with Nidalee on the same team, he usually takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Zed in team fights.
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Is Zed better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no ideal ally for Zed that will always be his top ally. However, overall, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Zed. By locking into the same side as Zed, she drops their win rate by -4.6% to 43.8%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Zed and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Zed. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Nidalee allies to play with, as they will require a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by grouping Zed and Nidalee together, you probably will not be granting your side a lot of utility. Plan to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zed in order to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should continue reading to gather additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to focus on in your Zed and Nidalee synergy build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Zed bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 43.8% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Zed and Nidalee pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.8% win rate overall.
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