Caitlyn with Nidalee
How to Synergize Caitlyn and Nidalee
based on 2,483 Caitlyn with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Caitlyn Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Caitlyn vs Nidalee Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Caitlyn Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Synergizing Caitlyn and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Caitlyn with Nidalee
Fire 90 Caliber Net away from the opponent to close the gap or hop over walls.
Avoid using Ace in the Hole in large team melees as it might be blocked by the wrong target.
Make use of her Yordle Snap Traps by placing them pre-emptively to ensure that you'll have one off of cooldown during combat.
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.
Caitlyn Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Caitlyn in LoL
The Caitlyn Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Caitlyn sees a large worsening in her 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 Caitlyn perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Caitlyn is paired with Nidalee, she sees a little decrease in her total damage output. This could demonstrate that Nidalee does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Caitlyn is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Caitlyn plays with Nidalee on the same side, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of protecting Caitlyn in team fights.
Synergies between Caitlyn and Nidalee
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Contrasted
Is Caitlyn better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect champion pairing for Caitlyn that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad companion for Caitlyn. By locking into the same team as Caitlyn, she lowers their win rate by -4.6% to 44.7%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible strategic relationship between Caitlyn and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Caitlyn. That means Caitlyn players should be very careful when lining up Nidalee comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a greater level of skill to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Caitlyn players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by bringing Caitlyn and Nidalee together, you probably will not be providing your side enough protection for burst damage. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
Other Champion Matchups Against Caitlyn
Other Top Synergies by Role
Additional Information for Caitlyn Players
How We Calculated Our Caitlyn Nidalee Synergy Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Caitlyn to work well with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Caitlyn and Nidalee synergy build include Lord Dominik's Regards, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Caitlyn bought at least these three finished items in her build, she performed much better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Caitlyn had an average win rate of 44.7% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Caitlyn players should take the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Caitlyn and Nidalee pairings, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.7% winrate overall.
If you want to see Caitlyn with Nidalee cooperations tips and stats for a a particular skill level, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. By default, the stats and tips and suggestions given are computed using every game completed with these champs.