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.
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
The Nidalee Poppy synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Poppy, 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 Poppy. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Poppy 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 Poppy, she sees a marginal improvement in her total damage output. This may signal that Poppy helps provide protection for her to deal more damage or that her support also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Poppy on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Poppy. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Poppy.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Poppy on the same side, she typically receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Poppy does a poor job of protecting Nidalee during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best champion pairing for Nidalee that will always be her top teammate. However, Poppy is a very bad ally for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, she drops their win rate by -5.8% to 39.0%. This demonstrates that there is an easy to overcome and exploit bond between Nidalee and Poppy that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Poppy has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when finding Poppy comrades to play with, as they will have to have a lower level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
When playing on the same side, Nidalee players should expect to witness an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champs should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Poppy together, you probably will not be granting your other allies enough magic damage. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that helps cover this hole in their potential.
Regardless of the ability of your Poppy ally, you need to focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and taking down objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you should do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to work well with Poppy during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends games, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee and Poppy synergy build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three finished items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting alongside Poppy than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 39.0% helping carry Poppy with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating 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 runes we have analyed for this champion pairing, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 39.0% win rate overall.
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