Nidalee vs Leona
How to Beat Leona as Nidalee
based on 918 Nidalee vs Leona matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Leona Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Leona Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Leona as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Leona
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 Leona
When Leona activates Eclipse, you have three seconds to get away from her before she deals damage.
Only foes in the center of Solar Flare get stunned, so you can often avoid this if you're quick.
Nidalee vs Leona Counter Stats
How to Counter Leona with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Nidalee against Leona matchup statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Leona’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Leona. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Leona. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Leona
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Leona?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Leona, with a 39.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Leona.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Leona, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Leonaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Leona. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Leona matchups, Leona is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Leona. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Leona.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Leona during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often gets a similar amount of CS as Leona. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Leona build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs. Leona than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 39.8% battling Leona with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Leona 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 picked for Nidalee vs Leona counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 39.8% win rate overall.
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