Elise vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Elise
based on 198 Elise vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Nidalee
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Elise in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Elise against Nidalee matchup stats that can help us explain the differences between the two. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Elise often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Elise or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Elise usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 61.1% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Elise does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Elise into Nidaleeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Elise has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Elise vs Nidalee matchups, Elise is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Elise is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Elise against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Elise in order to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise usually accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Elise versus Nidalee build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Elise boasted an average winrate of 61.1% battling Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Nidalee as Elise, you should take the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Triumph runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Elise vs Nidalee counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 61.1% winrate overall.
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