Lissandra's abilities are shorter range than those of many mages. As a result, buying items that offer both ability power and defense, like Zhonya's Hourglass and Banshee's Veil, can be a great choice to help her both survive and deal damage.
Casting Glacial Path and then running in the opposite direction will leave your enemies uncertain which way you will actually go.
You can instantly use your ultimate on yourself by pressing the self cast key and the ultimate key at once (alt+R by default).
The Lissandra Nilah synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nilah, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Lissandra sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nilah. His KDA decreased from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Nilah helps Lissandra perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lissandra plays on the same team as Nilah, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This could signal that Nilah provides cover for her to deal more damage or that their allyship also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Lissandra is played together with Nilah on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nilah.
Moreover, when Lissandra plays with Nilah on the same team, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage may mean that Nilah does a decent job of protecting Lissandra during team fights.
There is no perfect companion for Lissandra that will 100% of the time be her ideal synergy. Yet, overall, Nilah is a good ally for Lissandra. By playing on the same team as Lissandra, they raises their win rate by 1.8% to 51.3%. This demonstrates that there is a potentially meaningful bond between Lissandra and Nilah that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Nilah has a much greater difficulty compared to Lissandra. That means you should be very careful when enlisting Nilah comrades to play with, as they will need a much greater level of skill to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Lissandra players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Lissandra and Nilah together, you probably will not be providing your other allies much tankyness. We recommend you pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative gap in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nilah ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Lissandra in order to synergize with Nilah during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to master a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to build first in your Lissandra and Nilah synergy build consist of Malignance, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Lissandra used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Nilah than with many other typical builds. In fact, Lissandra had an average win rate of 51.3% helping carry Nilah with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating your oponents, you should equip the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nilah with Lissandra are shown for every ranked division. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.