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.
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
The Nidalee Olaf synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Olaf, 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 Olaf. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Olaf helps Nidalee perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee is an ally to Olaf, she sees a small decrease in her complete damage output. This difference may signal that Olaf does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Olaf 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 with Olaf.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Olaf on the same side, she often receives a little less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Olaf does a decent job of protecting Nidalee during team fights.
There is no one best ally for Nidalee that will no matter what be her #1 ally. Yet, Olaf is a very bad companion for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -4.3% to 40.5%. This clearly indicates that there is a very bad synergy between Nidalee and Olaf that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Olaf has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Olaf comrades to fight alongside, as they will require a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
When playing cooperatively, Nidalee players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Conversely, by aligning Nidalee and Olaf together, you probably will not be granting your other allies a great deal of crowd control. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that fills this hole in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the ability of your Olaf teammate, you should focus on increasing your income, outlasting your enemies, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well, regardless.
To truly master Nidalee to synergize with Olaf during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should keep reading to pick up additional tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot.
The best items to use in your Nidalee and Olaf synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee included at least these three great items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Olaf than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 40.5% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Olaf with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing your oponents, Nidalee players should use 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 picked for this team composition, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 40.5% winrate overall.
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