Kayn with Nidalee
How to Synergize Kayn and Nidalee
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Kayn Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Kayn and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Kayn with Nidalee
Remember that nearby enemies can see which wall you're in.
Look at the line-up of both your team and the enemy's team when picking your form.
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.
Kayn Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Kayn in LoL
The Kayn 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, Kayn sees a very large drop in his 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 Kayn perform not as well in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Kayn is paired with Nidalee, he observes a little drop in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nidalee does not support by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that her allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Kayn is played with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Kayn plays with Nidalee on the same side, he typically receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Kayn in team fights.
Synergies between Kayn and Nidalee
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Is Kayn better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no perfect synergy for Kayn that will no matter what be his #1 synergy. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Kayn. By playing on the same side as Kayn, she decreases their win rate by -3.4% to 45.8%. This proves that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Kayn and Nidalee that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than Kayn. That means Kayn players don't need to be cautious when arranging Nidalee allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a lower level of skill to work well with you.
Playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. Together, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Kayn and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your team much support. Make sure to pick other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative hole 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 taking down 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 learn all of the intricacies of Kayn in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kayn and Nidalee synergy build consist of Guardian Angel, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Hubris. When Kayn combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kayn boasted an average winrate of 45.8% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Kayn players should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Kayn and Nidalee pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nidalee with Kayn are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.