Akshan vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Akshan
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Akshan vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Akshan vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Akshan
Tips for Playing as Akshan against Nidalee
Raising an eyebrow in the face of danger, Akshan fights evil with dashing charisma, righteous vengeance, and a conspicuous lack of shirts. He is highly skilled in the art of stealth combat, able to evade the eyes of his enemies and reappear when they least expect him. With a keen sense of justice and a legendary death-reversing weapon, he rights the wrongs of Runeterra's many scoundrels while living by his own moral code: “Don't be an ass.”
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Akshan vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Akshan in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Akshan against Nidalee counter stats that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. Akshan’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akshan may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Akshan typically has a similar longest kill spree as their enemy does. Typically, they receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Akshan and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Akshan or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akshan usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 52.2% win rate. Therefore, Akshan makes a good counter for Nidalee.
While Akshan does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Akshan also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Akshan into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Akshan has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akshan vs Nidalee matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Akshan is a good counter for Nidalee. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Akshan against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akshan in order to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akshan usually accumulates much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Akshan versus Nidalee build include Blade of The Ruined King, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Akshan bought at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better countering Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Akshan had an average winrate of 52.2% battling Nidalee with these items in their kit.
To have the highest probability of defeating Nidalee as Akshan, Akshan players should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Bone Plating, and Shield Bash runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Akshan vs Nidalee matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 52.2% winrate overall.
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