Katarina with Nidalee
How to Synergize Katarina and Nidalee
based on 730 Katarina with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Katarina Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Katarina vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Katarina and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Katarina with Nidalee
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Katarina in LoL
The Katarina 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, Katarina 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 Katarina perform worse in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Katarina tries to synergize with Nidalee, she gets a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Nidalee does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Katarina is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Nidalee.
Moreover, when Katarina plays with Nidalee on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of covering Katarina in team fights.
Synergies between Katarina and Nidalee
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Is Katarina better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best companion for Katarina that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Nidalee is a not very good companion for Katarina. By playing on the same side as Katarina, she lowers their win rate by -2.9% to 45.9%. This shows that there is a bad bond between Katarina and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Katarina. That means Katarina players don't need to be careful when lining up Nidalee allies to play with, as they will need a lower level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Working cooperatively, you should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to deal magical damage. Together, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Although, by pairing Katarina and Nidalee together, you may not be granting your side a great deal of support. We recommend you include other champions on your team that offsets this relative disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing 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 truly master Katarina in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather additional 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 items to have in your Katarina and Nidalee synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina included at least these three finished items in her build, she did a lot better as an ally of Nidalee than with many other typical builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 45.9% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing your oponents, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for this team composition, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.9% win rate overall.
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