Lee Sin with Nidalee
How to Synergize Lee Sin and Nidalee
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Lee Sin Nidalee Synergy Summary
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Guide to Synergizing Lee Sin and Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Lee Sin with Nidalee
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
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.
Lee Sin Nidalee Synergy Stats
How to Play with Nidalee as Lee Sin in LoL
The Lee Sin 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, Lee Sin sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Nidalee. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Nidalee helps Lee Sin perform worse in ranked League of Legends games. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Lee Sin is an ally to Nidalee, he sees a small increase in his complete damage output. This difference could indicate that Nidalee helps provide protection for him to dish out more damage or that her support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Lee Sin is played alongside Nidalee on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees compared to when he plays on his own. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Nidalee.
Moreover, when Lee Sin plays with Nidalee on the same side, he often receives a little less damage than when he fights alone. Taking not as much damage could indicate that Nidalee does a decent job of protecting Lee Sin in teamfights.
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Is Lee Sin better when played alongside Nidalee?
There is no universally accepted best companion for Lee Sin that will always be his top synergy. Yet, Nidalee is a decent ally for Lee Sin. By being on the same side as Lee Sin, she improves their win rate by 1.5% to 48.8%. This proves that there is pretty good strategic relationship between Lee Sin and Nidalee that allows them to perform at the top of their game together than without each other.
Nidalee has a greater difficulty than Lee Sin. That means you need to be very careful when enlisting Nidalee comrades to play with, as they will need a greater level of skill to play well with you.
Playing on the same side, Lee Sin players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capacity to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champs can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
Although, by grouping Lee Sin and Nidalee together, you probably will not be granting your side much crowd control. Plan to bring other champs on your team that nullifies this relative gap in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of your Nidalee ally's ability, you should focus on increasing your income, warding to avoid ambushes, and clearing objectives. If you do this, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Lee Sin to synergize with Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL games, you should keep reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you use the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot.
The top items to build first in your Lee Sin and Nidalee synergy build include Guardian Angel, Eclipse, and Profane Hydra. When Lee Sin bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when paired up with Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Lee Sin had an average winrate of 48.8% helping carry Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against your oponents, Lee Sin players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Lee Sin and Nidalee pairings, this set of runes yielded the top win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.8% winrate overall.
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