Zilean with Nidalee
How to Synergize Zilean and Nidalee
based on 256 Zilean with Nidalee pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Zilean Nidalee Synergy Summary
Best Zilean vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Zilean and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Zilean with Nidalee
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
Advice to Understand How Nidalee Will Play
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.
Zilean Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Zilean in LoL
The Zilean Nidalee synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Nidalee, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Zilean sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Zilean perform worse in ranked League matches. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Zilean is an ally to Nidalee, he gets a little decrease in his total damage output. This change could indicate that Nidalee does not support by providing protection for him to dish out more damage or that her presence also helps increase the game's duration. Similarly, when Zilean is played alongside Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Nidalee. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Additionally, when Zilean plays with Nidalee on the same team, he typically takes more damage than when he fights alone. Receiving more damage may mean that Nidalee does a poor job of covering Zilean in team fights.
Synergies between Zilean and Nidalee
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Is Zilean better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best synergy for Zilean that will 100% of the time be his #1 teammate. However, Nidalee is a terrible ally for Zilean. By playing on the same side as Zilean, she decreases their win rate by -8.1% to 42.6%. This shows that there is a terrible bond between Zilean and Nidalee that results in them performing worse together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Zilean. That means you must be very careful when finding Nidalee allies to go into battle on the same side as, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Zilean players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s ability to to do a lot of AP damage. Together, these two can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by pairing Zilean and Nidalee together, you may not be providing your other allies enough attack damage. We recommend you include other champions on your team that helps cover this relative hole in their potential.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's skill level, you need to focus on increasing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Zilean in order to pair well with Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should keep reading to pick up additional tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly.
The most crucial finished items to use in your Zilean and Nidalee synergy build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Zilean included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when paired up with Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Zilean had an average winrate of 42.6% when playing alongside Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating your oponents, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zilean and Nidalee pairings, this composite of runes yielded the top win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 42.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to team up Nidalee with Zilean are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.