Nidalee vs Caitlyn
How to Beat Caitlyn as Nidalee
based on 2,555 Nidalee vs Caitlyn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Caitlyn Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Caitlyn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Caitlyn as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Caitlyn
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 Caitlyn
Keep behind allied minions if Caitlyn is harassing you with Piltover Peacemaker (it deals less damage with each subsequent target).
You can intercept Ace in the Hole's missile from hitting an ally if you stand in its path.
Nidalee vs Caitlyn Counter Stats
How to Counter Caitlyn with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature some vital Nidalee versus Caitlyn counter statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Caitlyn’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Caitlyn..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Caitlyn. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Caitlyn
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Caitlyn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Caitlyn, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Caitlyn.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Caitlyn, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Caitlynas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Caitlyn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Caitlyn matchups, Caitlyn 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Caitlyn. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Caitlyn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Caitlyn 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a lot less CS as Caitlyn. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Caitlyn build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Shadowflame. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Caitlyn than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 46.4% battling Caitlyn with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Caitlyn as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nidalee vs Caitlyn face-offs, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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