K'Sante with Nidalee
How to Synergize K'Sante and Nidalee
based on 411 K'Sante with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
K'Sante Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best K'Sante vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing K'Sante and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as K'Sante with Nidalee
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as K'Sante in LoL
The K'Sante Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of their gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to their overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how their gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, K'Sante sees a very large drop in their KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nidalee helps K'Sante perform not as well in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When K'Sante plays on the same team as Nidalee, they observes a marginal improvement in their complete damage output. This change may signal that Nidalee helps provide protection for them to dish out more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when K'Sante is played together with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when they plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that they is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when K'Sante plays with Nidalee on the same side, they typically takes a little more damage than when they fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering K'Sante during teamfights.
Synergies between K'Sante and Nidalee
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Is K'Sante better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no one best companion for K'Sante that will always be their best ally. However, overall, Nidalee is a terrible teammate for K'Sante. By being on the same side as K'Sante, she drops their win rate by -5.8% to 41.4%. This clearly indicates that there is a terrible synergy between K'Sante and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a lower difficulty than K'Sante. That means K'Sante players don't need to be careful when arranging Nidalee allies to fight alongside, as they will require a lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting on the same side, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal magic damage. When paired, these champions are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by bringing K'Sante and Nidalee together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough support. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Nidalee ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of K'Sante in order to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your K'Sante and Nidalee synergy build include Sunfire Aegis, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante used at least these three great items in their build, they did much better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other typical item sets. In fact, K'Sante boasted an average winrate of 41.4% helping carry Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against your oponents, you should use the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for K'Sante and Nidalee pairings, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 41.4% win rate overall.
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