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.
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
The Nidalee Nocturne synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nocturne, 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 Nocturne. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Nocturne helps Nidalee perform poorer in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Nocturne, she observes a little increase in her full damage dealt. This may demonstrate that Nocturne helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Nocturne on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Nocturne.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Nocturne on the same side, she often receives much less damage than when she plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Nocturne does a decent job of covering Nidalee during team fights.
There is no ideal companion for Nidalee that will 100% of the time be her ideal ally. Yet, Nocturne is a decent teammate for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, he raises their win rate by 1.0% to 45.8%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Nidalee and Nocturne that results in them performing better together than alone.
Nocturne has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be careful when arranging Nocturne allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will require a much lower level of skill to cooperate well with you.
When playing together, Nidalee players will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to destroy wih physical damage. When paired, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by bringing Nidalee and Nocturne together, you may not be granting your team much crowd control. Plan to pick other champions on your team that fills this disparity in their potential.
Regardless of the skill of your Nocturne teammate, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to work well with Nocturne during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League, you should keep reading to pick up additional lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The top finished items to get in your Nidalee and Nocturne synergy build include Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when paired up with Nocturne than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 45.8% when playing alongside Nocturne with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee and Nocturne pairings, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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