Nidalee with Varus
How to Synergize Nidalee and Varus
based on 1,120 Nidalee with Varus pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Nidalee Varus Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Varus
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Varus
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 Varus Will Play
Try to take advantage of Piercing Arrow's very long range to snipe at enemy champions before a fight or as they're trying to flee.
An early point in Blighted Quiver helps harass enemy champions and get killing blows on minions.
During short range fights it's sometimes best to fire Piercing Arrow quickly, rather than charging it to full power.
Nidalee Varus Synergy Stats
How to Play with Varus as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Varus synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Varus, 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 Varus. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Varus helps Nidalee perform worse in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee is an ally to Varus, she observes a barely noticable drop in her total damage output. This change may demonstrate that Varus does not help protection for her to deal more damage or that his presence also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Varus on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Varus.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Varus on the same team, she often receives a little more damage than when she plays alone. Taking more damage may mean that Varus does a poor job of covering Nidalee during teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Varus
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Varus?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nidalee that will always be her #1 ally. Yet, overall, Varus is a relatively poor ally for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he drops their win rate by -2.5% to 42.3%. This shows that there is a negative strategic relationship between Nidalee and Varus that allows them to perform worse together than alone.
Varus has a much lower diffuclty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be very careful when finding Varus allies to fight alongside, as they will need a much lower level of skill to do well with you.
Working cooperatively, Nidalee players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to dish out massive AD. When paired, these champions should be able to take down targets with auto-attacks and other AD damage abilities.
In contrast, by aligning Nidalee and Varus together, you will not be granting your other allies very much utility. Make sure to include other champs on your team that offsets this disparity in their kit.
Regardless of your Varus ally's skill level, you need to focus on maximizing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to synergize with Varus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot.
The ideal finished items to build first in your Nidalee and Varus synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did much better when paired up with Varus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 42.3% when playing alongside Varus with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating your oponents, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Nidalee and Varus pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 42.3% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to synergize Varus with Nidalee are presented for all skill levels, merged. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.