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.
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
The Nidalee Kai'Sa synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Kai'Sa, 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 Kai'Sa. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Kai'Sa helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Kai'Sa, she observes a small increase in her total damage dealt. This change could indicate that Kai'Sa helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her participation also helps extend the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Kai'Sa on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Kai'Sa. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Kai'Sa.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Kai'Sa on the same team, she usually takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Receiving not as much damage could indicate that Kai'Sa does a decent job of covering Nidalee in team fights.
There is no one best ally for Nidalee that will always be her best synergy. Yet, Kai'Sa is a below average ally for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, she decreases their win rate by -1.2% to 43.6%. This proves that there is a bad synergy between Nidalee and Kai'Sa that allows them to perform not as well together than alone.
Kai'Sa has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when lining up Kai'Sa allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will need a relatively low level of skill to do well with you.
Playing together, you should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
In contrast, by aligning Nidalee and Kai'Sa together, you probably will not be giving your team very much support. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in this pairing's capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Kai'Sa teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to pair well with Kai'Sa during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Nidalee and Kai'Sa synergy build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when paired up with Kai'Sa than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 43.6% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Kai'Sa with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing 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. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee and Kai'Sa pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 43.6% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Kai'Sa with Nidalee are given for all ranked divisions. To filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.