Kalista with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kalista and Nidalee
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Kalista Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kalista and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kalista with Nidalee
Rend is a valuable last hitting aid, since its cooldown resets if it kills a target.
Entering a move order once to trigger Martial Poise will not clear Kalista's basic attack target.
Due to her passive, Kalista's Move Speed is effectively increased by Attack Speed.
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.
Kalista Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kalista in LoL
The Kalista 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, Kalista sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Kalista perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Kalista is paired with Nidalee, she gets a small increase in her complete damage dealt. This change could demonstrate that Nidalee helps provide cover for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Kalista is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Kalista plays with Nidalee on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Kalista in team fights.
Synergies between Kalista and Nidalee
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Is Kalista better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best ally for Kalista that will no matter what be her #1 ally. However, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Kalista. By locking into the same team as Kalista, she decreases their win rate by -7.1% to 40.3%. This proves that there is a very bad bond between Kalista and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Kalista. That means Kalista players must be cautious when enlisting Nidalee allies to fight alongside, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Conversely, by bringing Kalista and Nidalee together, you will not be granting your side very much crowd control. Plan to include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will 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 Kalista to synergize with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to prioritize in your Kalista and Nidalee synergy build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kalista bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Kalista boasted an average win rate of 40.3% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, Kalista players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for this team composition, this combination of runes yielded the top win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 40.3% win rate overall.
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