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.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
The Nidalee Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, 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 Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Xerath helps Nidalee perform worse in ranked LoL games. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Xerath, she observes a little drop in her full damage output. This change could demonstrate that Xerath doesn't help protection for her to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when she plays without Xerath. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing with Xerath.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Xerath on the same team, she often receives more damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of covering Nidalee during team fights.
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Nidalee that will always be her #1 teammate. However, overall, Xerath is a not very good ally for Nidalee. By being on the same team as Nidalee, he decreases their win rate by -1.9% to 42.9%. This signals that there is a bad strategic relationship between Nidalee and Xerath that results in them performing not as well together than alone.
Xerath has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be cautious when lining up Xerath teammates to fight alongside, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Combined, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by grouping Nidalee and Xerath together, you will not be providing your other allies much anti-tank damage dealing potential. Make sure to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this hole in this pairing's kit.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to synergize with Xerath during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The best items to prioritize in your Nidalee and Xerath synergy build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when paired up with Xerath than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.9% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest chance of beating 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for this champion pairing, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 42.9% win rate overall.
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