Lucian with Nidalee
How to Synergize Lucian and Nidalee
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Lucian Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lucian and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Lucian with Nidalee
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Lucian in LoL
The Lucian 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, Lucian sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Nidalee helps Lucian perform poorer in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lucian tries to synergize with Nidalee, he gets a small decrease in his full damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Nidalee does not help cover for him to deal more damage or that her presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Lucian is played with Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Lucian plays with Nidalee on the same side, he often 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 Lucian during team fights.
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Is Lucian better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no top ally for Lucian that will no matter what be his best synergy. However, overall, Nidalee is a very bad teammate for Lucian. By being on the same team as Lucian, she decreases their win rate by -5.5% to 43.3%. This signals that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Lucian and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Lucian. That means you should be cautious when lining up Nidalee comrades to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a greater level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, Lucian players will likely witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by pairing Lucian and Nidalee together, you will not be granting your other teammates very much utility. Plan to have other champs on your team that neutralizes this gap in their abilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Nidalee teammate, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian in order to synergize with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The top finished items to include in your Lucian and Nidalee synergy build include Bloodthirster, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Lucian bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 43.3% when playing alongside Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of defeating your oponents, you should use the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this composite of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.3% winrate overall.
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