Nidalee vs Alistar
How to Beat Alistar as Nidalee
based on 434 Nidalee vs Alistar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Alistar Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Alistar as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Alistar
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Advice to Win Against Alistar
Alistar is very disruptive but very tough - try to target more fragile damage dealers.
When Alistar uses his ultimate, it's often better to move back and wait until the effect wears off before attacking him.
Watch out for the Pulverize-Headbutt combo when around turrets.
Nidalee vs Alistar Counter Stats
How to Counter Alistar with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several valuable Nidalee against Alistar counter stats that can help you understand the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Alistar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Alistar. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Alistar. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Alistar
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Alistar?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Alistar, with a 40.3% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Alistar.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Alistar, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Alistaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Alistar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Alistar matchups, Alistar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Alistar. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Alistar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Alistar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Alistar. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Alistar build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better versus Alistar than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 40.3% when countering Alistar with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Alistar as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Alistar counters, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 40.3% winrate overall.
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