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Illaoi with Nidalee

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How to Synergize Illaoi and Nidalee

based on 483 Illaoi with Nidalee pairs
Win Rate
46.4 %
K/D/A
1.38
Pick Rate
0.7 %

How We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL

We pull the stats from from millions of League of Legends games straight from Riot Games each week. Illaoi has gone into battle with Nidalee in 483 recent, ranked matches. By gathering so much great data from the creators of LoL, we have complete confidence that we can provide you with robust, accurate builds to help Illaoi play with Nidalee. It is very rare for Illaoi to play alongside Nidalee as teammates. This pairing has only taken place in approximately 0.7% of games with Illaoi.

Illaoi Nidalee Synergy Summary

Unfortunately, Illaoi has done a awful job of fighting on the same side as Nidalee. Typically, she wins a lowly 46.4% of games the champs try and synergize their gameplay. If you want to win more matches as Illaoi when playing alongside Nidalee by learning how to better synergize your playstyle with her, then dig into the full build (with items, runes, summoner spells, and skills) below!

Best Illaoi vs Nidalee Counter Build

Items

Starter Items

Time Target
Health PotionTear of the Goddess

Early Items

~5 Mins
Long SwordTunneler

Core Illaoi Items

~22 Mins
Sterak's GageBlack CleaverIceborn Gauntlet

Optional Items

Spirit VisageHullbreakerSundered SkyTrinity Force

Summoner Spells

summonerflash summoner spell D
summonerteleport summoner spell F

Skill Order

First skill for Illaoi to level upe
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Second ability for Illaoi to level upq
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Last skill for Illaoi to max outw

Runes

ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowth
PrecisionPresence of MindLast Stand
Adaptive ForceAdaptive ForceArmor
Illaoi's passive ability p
Illaoi's q ability q
Illaoi's w ability w
Illaoi's e ability e
Illaoi's ultimate ability r
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Guide to Synergizing Illaoi and Nidalee

Tips for Playing as Illaoi with Nidalee

Vessel

Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.

Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a

is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.

Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.

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.

Illaoi Nidalee Synergy Stats

Illaoi Image
Win Rate
46.4 %
VS
Win Rate
53.6 %
Nidalee Image
5.3
< Kills >
5.3
6.8
< Deaths >
6.7
4.1
< Assists >
4.4
1.2
< Killing Sprees >
1.21
193
< Minions Killed >
190
0.04
< Dragons Killed >
0.05
0.57
< Inhibitors >
0.57
24,911
< Physical Damage >
24,827
826
< Magic Damage >
835
355
< True Damage >
407
26,093
< Damage Dealt >
26,070
36,364
< Damage Taken >
35,928
12,000
< Gold Earned >
12,040
2.72
< Towers >
2.79
0.02
< Baron Takedowns >
0.02
8,805
< Total Healing >
8,841
15,142
< Experience >
15,333
16
< Vision Score >
16
8
< Wards Placed >
8
439
< Time Dealing CC >
432

How to Play with Nidalee as Illaoi in LoL

The Illaoi 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, Illaoi sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps Illaoi perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.

When Illaoi is paired with Nidalee, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Nidalee supports by providing cover for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Illaoi is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nidalee.

Additionally, when Illaoi plays with Nidalee on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Illaoi in team fights.

Synergies between Illaoi and Nidalee

Damage Types Compared

Illaoi
Nidalee
Physical Damage
Magic Damage
True Damage

Champion Playstyles Contrasted

Illaoi
Nidalee

Is Illaoi better when played alongside Nidalee?

There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Illaoi that will always be her ideal ally. However, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for Illaoi. By playing on the same side as Illaoi, she lowers their win rate by -3.2% to 46.4%. This clearly indicates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Illaoi and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.

Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Illaoi. That means Illaoi players need to be very careful when finding Nidalee allies to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.

Fighting alongside, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal physical damage. Together, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.

In contrast, by grouping Illaoi and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your side a great deal of utility. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their abilities.

Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well, regardless.

Additional Information for Illaoi Players

How We Calculated Our Illaoi Nidalee Synergy Build and Stats

For this guide on pairing Illaoi and Nidalee, we analyzed 483 ranked and recent League of Legends matches. We perform advanced data cleaning and statistical methods to guarantee that our team synergy stats are accurate and reliable. You can be confident that our recommended build to pair Illaoi with Nidalee comes from actual data and is not the fabrication of some random LoL player, as some other sites provide. You can use the filters at the top of the page to view your division's most relevant stats and build.

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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing

If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi to work well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly.

The best finished items to include in your Illaoi and Nidalee synergy build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average win rate of 46.4% helping carry Nidalee with these items in her kit.

To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.

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