Kai'Sa vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Kai'Sa
based on 1,131 Kai'Sa vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Nidalee
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Kai'Sa vs. Nidalee counter statistics that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Kai'Sa usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 55.1% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Kai'Sa does have a much higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kai'Sa into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Nidalee matchups, Kai'Sa is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Kai'Sa against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa typically racks up much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Kai'Sa versus Nidalee build include Wit's End, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Nidalee than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 55.1% when playing against Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Nidalee as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Nidalee counters, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.1% win rate overall.
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