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.
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
The Nidalee Graves synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Graves, 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 Graves. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Graves helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive LoL matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Graves, she sees a small increase in her total damage output. This may indicate that Graves supports by providing protection for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Graves on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing synergisticly with Graves.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Graves on the same side, she usually receives much less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Graves does a decent job of covering Nidalee in team fights.
There is no perfect synergy for Nidalee that will always be her top synergy. Yet, Graves is a decent teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, he increases their win rate by 2.7% to 47.5%. This shows that there is a somewhat important synergy between Nidalee and Graves that results in them performing better together than alone.
Graves has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when arranging Graves comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing on the same side, you should witness an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these two can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nidalee and Graves together, you probably will not be giving your side very much utility. Make sure to have other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Graves ally, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to work well with Graves during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important items to have in your Nidalee and Graves synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Graves than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 47.5% helping carry Graves with this build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating your oponents, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.5% win rate overall.
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