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.
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
The Nidalee Darius synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Darius, 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 large worsening in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Darius. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Darius helps Nidalee perform not as well in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Darius, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This difference may signal that Darius helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Darius on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Darius. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Darius.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Darius on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Darius does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
There is no top synergy for Nidalee that will always be her ideal synergy. Yet, Darius is a very typical companion for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he raises their win rate by 0.4% to 45.2%. This shows that there is a weak synergy between Nidalee and Darius that allows them to perform stronger together than alone.
Darius has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when lining up Darius comrades to play with, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Fighting together, you should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nidalee and Darius together, you probably will not be giving your other teammates a lot of crowd control. Make sure to have other champions on your team that helps cover this disparity in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Darius teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
To truly master Nidalee in order to pair well with Darius during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League matches, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The most crucial finished items to get in your Nidalee and Darius synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Darius than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 45.2% when playing alongside Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against your oponents, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this combination of runes resulted in the top win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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