Darius with Nidalee
How to Synergize Darius and Nidalee
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Darius Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Darius and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Darius with Nidalee
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Darius in LoL
The Darius 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, Darius sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nidalee helps Darius perform worse in competitive LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Darius plays on the same team as Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his total damage dealt. This difference may signal that Nidalee does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Darius is played alongside 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 alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Darius plays with Nidalee on the same side, he typically receives a little more damage than when he plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Darius during team fights.
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Is Darius better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Darius that will always be his top synergy. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad ally for Darius. By playing on the same team as Darius, she lowers their win rate by -4.0% to 45.2%. This signals that there is a very bad bond between Darius and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Darius. That means you should be very careful when finding Nidalee comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Darius and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your other allies very much crowd control. We recommend you have other champions on your team that offsets this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Darius to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Darius and Nidalee synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Dead Man's Plate. When Darius used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Darius had an average win rate of 45.2% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this champion pairing, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nidalee with Darius are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier on the page.