Nidalee with Lucian
How to Synergize Nidalee and Lucian
based on 1,579 Nidalee with Lucian pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Lucian Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Lucian
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Lucian
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 Lucian Will Play
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
Nidalee Lucian Synergy Stats
How to Play with Lucian as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Lucian synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lucian, 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 Lucian. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Lucian helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive League of Legends matches. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Lucian, she sees a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change could indicate that Lucian does not help cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Lucian on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Lucian.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Lucian on the same side, she usually receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage may mean that Lucian does a poor job of covering Nidalee during team fights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Lucian
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Lucian?
There is no top champion pairing for Nidalee that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Lucian is a relatively poor ally for Nidalee. By locking into the same side as Nidalee, he lowers their win rate by -1.5% to 43.3%. This demonstrates that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nidalee and Lucian that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Lucian has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be very careful when lining up Lucian comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Fighting together, Nidalee players should observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Together, these two can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by pairing Nidalee and Lucian together, you may not be granting your side much support. Plan to pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their capabilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Lucian teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to work well with Lucian during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends rounds, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee and Lucian synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting alongside Lucian than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 43.3% when playing alongside Lucian with this build.
To have the best chance of beating your oponents, you 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 rune builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.3% win rate overall.
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