Leona vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Leona
based on 918 Leona vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Nidalee
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Leona in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some significant Leona versus Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Leona or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 60.2% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Leona does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Nidalee.
Additionally, Leona also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Leona vs Nidalee matchups, Leona is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Leona against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Leona to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Leona versus Nidalee build include Frozen Heart, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Leona bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 60.2% when playing against Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Nidalee as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Leona vs Nidalee face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 60.2% winrate overall.
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