Nidalee vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Nidalee
based on 448 Nidalee vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Illaoi
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 Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Nidalee vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature several influential Nidalee vs. Illaoi matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Illaoi..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Typically, she takes less damage than Illaoi. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Illaoi?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 41.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Illaoi.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Illaoias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Illaoi matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Illaoi. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Illaoi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up a lot less CS relative to Illaoi. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Illaoi build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Illaoi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 41.7% battling Illaoi with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Illaoi 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. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Illaoi battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 41.7% win rate overall.
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