Aphelios vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Aphelios
based on 599 Aphelios vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Aphelios vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Aphelios vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Aphelios
Tips for Playing as Aphelios against Nidalee
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different strengths, so try to find the right situation for your current weapons.
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.
Aphelios vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Aphelios in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show some significant Aphelios vs. Nidalee counter stats that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Aphelios’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Aphelios may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee..
Aphelios often has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Aphelios and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Aphelios or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aphelios usually fairs equally well when playing against Nidalee, with a 50.8% win rate. Therefore, Aphelios makes an ok counter to Nidalee.
While Aphelios does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Aphelios also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Aphelios into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Aphelios has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aphelios vs Nidalee matchups, Aphelios is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Aphelios is a decent counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Aphelios against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Aphelios to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aphelios on average gets much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Aphelios versus Nidalee build include Infinity Edge, Lord Dominik's Regards, and Kraken Slayer. When Aphelios incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Aphelios had an average winrate of 50.8% battling Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of defeating Nidalee as Aphelios, Aphelios players should use the Fleet Footwork, Overheal, Legend: Bloodline, Cut Down, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Aphelios vs Nidalee LoL games, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
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