Nidalee vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Nidalee
based on 228 Nidalee vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Nidalee vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several significant Nidalee against Kalista counter statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kalista..
Nidalee typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Kalista
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Kalista, with a 44.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Kalista.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Kalista, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Kalistaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kalista. This 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 Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Kalista. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Kalista build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better vs. Kalista than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.7% when countering Kalista with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Kalista 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. Out of all the runes players used for Nidalee vs Kalista face-offs, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.7% win rate overall.
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