Nidalee with Akali
How to Synergize Nidalee and Akali
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Nidalee Akali Synergy Summary
Best Nidalee vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nidalee and Akali
Tips for Playing as Nidalee with Akali
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 Akali Will Play
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
Nidalee Akali Synergy Stats
How to Play with Akali as Nidalee in LoL
The Nidalee Akali synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Akali, 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 Akali. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This drop shows that Akali helps Nidalee perform not as well in ranked LoL rounds. Yet, the small difference demonstrates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nidalee tries to synergize with Akali, she gets a little drop in her complete damage output. This could signal that Akali does not support by providing protection for her to dish out more damage or that her support also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played alongside Akali 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 with Akali.
Moreover, when Nidalee plays with Akali on the same team, she typically takes a little less damage than when she fights alone. Getting dealt not as much damage could mean that Akali does a decent job of covering Nidalee in teamfights.
Synergies between Nidalee and Akali
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Is Nidalee better when played alongside Akali?
There is no one best synergy for Nidalee that will always be her best teammate. Yet, overall, Akali is a relatively poor companion for Nidalee. By being on the same side as Nidalee, she drops their win rate by -1.9% to 42.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Nidalee and Akali that results in them performing worse together than alone.
Akali has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when arranging Akali comrades to fight alongside, as they will need a lower level of skill to do well with you.
Fighting alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal magical damage. Together, these champs can deal quite a lot of AP type damage.
Although, by aligning Nidalee and Akali together, you probably will not be granting your other teammates a great deal of support. Plan to bring other champs on your team that fills this relative disparity in this pairing's abilities.
Regardless of the skill of your Akali ally, you should focus on increasing your income, staying alive by avoiding foolish fights, and clearing objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to pair well with Akali during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL rounds, you should continue reading to learn some more tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot.
The best items to build first in your Nidalee and Akali synergy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three finished items in her build, she performed a lot better as an ally of Akali than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.9% when playing alongside Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing 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 builds that we analyzed for this champion pairing, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 42.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to synergize Akali with Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.