Leona with Nidalee
How to Synergize Leona and Nidalee
based on 894 Leona with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Leona Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Leona vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Leona and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Leona with Nidalee
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Leona in LoL
The Leona 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, Leona sees a large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Leona perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Leona is paired with Nidalee, she sees a small decrease in her total damage dealt. This may signal that Nidalee does not provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Leona is played together with Nidalee on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Nidalee.
Additionally, when Leona plays with Nidalee on the same team, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Leona during team fights.
Synergies between Leona and Nidalee
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Is Leona better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no top ally for Leona that will 100% of the time be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Nidalee is a terrible companion for Leona. By playing on the same side as Leona, she lowers their win rate by -4.1% to 48.1%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Leona and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a much greater difficulty compared to Leona. That means you should be careful when enlisting Nidalee allies to play with, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to fight well with you.
When playing alongside, Leona players should expect to observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to provide a lot of utility for your team. When paired, these champs will help their other teammates secure a victory.
Conversely, by aligning Leona and Nidalee together, you will not be providing your other allies very much sustained damage output. We recommend you include other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to work well with Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to master a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important finished items to build first in your Leona and Nidalee synergy build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Leona had an average win rate of 48.1% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating your oponents, Leona players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to team up Nidalee with Leona are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.