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.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
The Nidalee Brand synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Brand, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nidalee sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Brand. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Brand helps Nidalee perform poorer in competitive League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Brand, she gets a little drop in her complete damage dealt. This change could signal that Brand does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Brand on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays without Brand. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Brand.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Brand on the same team, she on average receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Brand does a poor job of covering Nidalee in team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. Yet, Brand is a not very good teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -2.4% to 42.4%. This signals that there is a harmful synergy between Nidalee and Brand that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Brand has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be very careful when enlisting Brand teammates to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to fight well with you.
Working alongside, Nidalee players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Nidalee and Brand together, you will not be granting your side very much engage. We recommend you bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of your Brand ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to synergize with Brand during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to learn additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nidalee and Brand synergy build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better as an ally of Brand than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 42.4% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.4% win rate overall.
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