Nidalee vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Nidalee
based on 659 Nidalee vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Nidalee vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here show several critical Nidalee versus Hecarim matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Hecarim..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Hecarim. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Hecarim?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Hecarim, with a 46.4% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Hecarim.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Hecarimas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Hecarim. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Hecarim matchups, Hecarim is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Hecarim during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Hecarim. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Hecarim build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Hecarim than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.4% battling Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Hecarim as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Hecarim fights, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% win rate overall.
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