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.
Make sure to tag your allies while Sona's auras are active, but avoid getting caught out by enemies.
Save Crescendo for the game-altering moment.
Well-timed uses of Aria of Perseverance will grant you maximum survivability.
The Nidalee Sona synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Sona, 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 Sona. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Sona helps Nidalee perform worse in ranked League games. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Sona, she observes a small decrease in her total damage output. This may demonstrate that Sona does not help protection for her to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played with Sona 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 Sona.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Sona on the same team, she usually takes a little more damage than when she plays alone. Receiving more damage could indicate that Sona does a poor job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
There is no top champion pairing for Nidalee that will always be her ideal synergy. However, Sona is a very typical ally for Nidalee. By playing on the same team as Nidalee, she raises their win rate by 0.4% to 45.2%. This clearly indicates that there is a weak bond between Nidalee and Sona that results in them performing at the top of their game together than alone.
Sona has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means you don't need to be cautious when arranging Sona allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working on the same side, you should observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champions can blast through enemies with magic damage.
Conversely, by pairing Nidalee and Sona together, you will not be providing your other teammates enough engage potential. We recommend you include other champions on your team that neutralizes this relative gap in their capabilities.
Regardless of your Sona ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you follow these simple suggestions, you will do well, regardless.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to synergize with Sona during both the lane and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should continue reading to learn additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you use the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The most important items to use in your Nidalee and Sona synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting alongside Sona than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 45.2% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Sona with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against 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 Nidalee and Sona pairings, this blending of runes resulted in the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% winrate overall.
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