Kassadin with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kassadin and Nidalee
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Kassadin Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kassadin and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kassadin with Nidalee
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kassadin in LoL
The Kassadin 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, Kassadin sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Nidalee helps Kassadin perform poorer in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kassadin plays on the same team as Nidalee, he observes a barely noticable drop in his complete damage dealt. This may signal that Nidalee does not provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Kassadin is played with 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 synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Kassadin plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Kassadin in team fights.
Synergies between Kassadin and Nidalee
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Is Kassadin better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no top champion pairing for Kassadin that will 100% of the time be his ideal teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad ally for Kassadin. By being on the same team as Kassadin, she drops their win rate by -7.1% to 42.9%. This shows that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kassadin and Nidalee that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Kassadin. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nidalee comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Kassadin players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magic damage. Together, these two can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Although, by grouping Kassadin and Nidalee together, you probably will not be giving your team enough crowd control. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee ally, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Kassadin in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to have in your Kassadin and Nidalee synergy build include Seraph's Embrace, Malignance, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin incorporated at least these three great items in his build, he performed much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Kassadin had an average win rate of 42.9% when synergizing his build and playstyle to Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, Kassadin players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kassadin and Nidalee pairings, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.9% win rate overall.
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