Nidalee vs Elise
How to Beat Elise as Nidalee
based on 198 Nidalee vs Elise matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Elise Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Elise Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Elise as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Elise
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 Elise
Rappel has a long cooldown. Elise is vulnerable after she has used it.
Elise's Spider Form is more dangerous when you are at low health, and her Human Form more potent when you are at high health.
Rappel will only move Elise straight up and down unless she can descend upon an enemy unit.
Nidalee vs Elise Counter Stats
How to Counter Elise with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several influential Nidalee versus Elise counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between these two champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Elise’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Elise..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Elise. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Elise
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Elise?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Elise, with a 38.9% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Elise.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Elise, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Eliseas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Elise. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Elise matchups, Elise is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Elise. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Elise.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Elise during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Elise. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling 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 case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Elise build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Elise than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 38.9% when playing against Elise with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Elise 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. Of all the runes players picked for Nidalee vs Elise counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 38.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Elise as Nidalee are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.