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.
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.
The Nidalee Lee Sin synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Lee Sin, 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 Lee Sin. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This worsening shows that Lee Sin helps Nidalee perform not as well in competitive League of Legends rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is not very impactful.
When Nidalee plays on the same team as Lee Sin, she sees a little increase in her full damage dealt. This change could indicate that Lee Sin provides cover for her to deal more damage or that his allyship also helps increase the round's duration. Similarly, when Nidalee is played together with Lee Sin on the same team, 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 Lee Sin.
Additionally, when Nidalee plays with Lee Sin on the same side, she on average receives much less damage than when she plays alone. Getting dealt not as much damage may mean that Lee Sin does a decent job of covering Nidalee in team fights.
There is no perfect ally for Nidalee that will no matter what be her best ally. Yet, overall, Lee Sin is a top-tier teammate for Nidalee. By locking into the same side as Nidalee, he raises their win rate by 4.0% to 48.8%. This shows that there is a very strong bond between Nidalee and Lee Sin that results in them performing stronger together than alone.
Lee Sin has a lower difficulty than Nidalee. That means Nidalee players don't need to be careful when enlisting Lee Sin teammates to play with, as they will have to have a relatively low level of skill to be able to fight well with you.
Playing on the same side, Nidalee players should expect to see an overall large increase in your team’s ability to deal physical damage. Combined, these champions can tear through the other team with a lot of physcial damage.
Although, by bringing Nidalee and Lee Sin together, you will not be providing your other teammates a great deal of crowd control. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that fills this gap in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of your Lee Sin ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your gold income, warding to avoid ambushes, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to synergize with Lee Sin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of LoL, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly.
The most important finished items to focus on in your Nidalee and Lee Sin synergy build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when paired up with Lee Sin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 48.8% when synergizing her build and playstyle to Lee Sin with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing your oponents, you 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee and Lee Sin pairings, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.8% winrate overall.
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