Nidalee with Leona
How to Synergize Nidalee and Leona
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Nidalee Leona Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Leona
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Leona
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.
Advice to Understand How Leona Will Play
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Nidalee Leona Synergy Stats
How to Play with Leona as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Leona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Leona, 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 Leona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Leona helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Leona, she gets a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Leona supports by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her participation also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Leona on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Leona.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Leona on the same team, she often takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt more damage may indicate that Leona does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Leona
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Leona?
There is no top champion pairing for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her top synergy. However, overall, Leona is a great teammate for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, she improves their win rate by 3.3% to 48.1%. This proves that there is an important synergy between Nidalee and Leona that allows them to perform better together than alone.
Leona has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be careful when finding Leona teammates to play with, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Fighting alongside, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to provide utility and CC for your side. Combined, these two should be able to manipulate the pace of team fights.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Leona together, you will not be giving your other teammates enough AD. Plan to pick other champions on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in their capabilities.
Regardless of the ability of your Leona ally, you need to focus on maximizing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to synergize with Leona during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to include in your Nidalee and Leona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three finished items in her build, she did much better when fighting alongside Leona than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 48.1% helping carry Leona 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. Out of all the rune builds players chose for this team composition, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.1% win rate overall.
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