Nidalee vs Master Yi
How to Beat Master Yi as Nidalee
based on 1,191 Nidalee vs Master Yi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Master Yi Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Master Yi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Master Yi as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Master Yi
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 Master Yi
If Master Yi tries to farm with Alpha Strike, hit him a few times so he has to use mana with Meditate to heal.
Although Master Yi cannot be slowed while using Highlander, other disables can stop him in his tracks.
Meditate is an effective method of healing damage over time, but Master Yi is susceptible to coordinated team ganks early in the game.
Nidalee vs Master Yi Counter Stats
How to Counter Master Yi with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Nidalee versus Master Yi counter statistics that may help us realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Master Yi’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Master Yi..
Nidalee typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Master Yi. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Master Yi
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Master Yi?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Master Yi, with a 43.5% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Master Yi.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Master Yi, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Master Yias her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Master Yi. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Master Yi matchups, Master Yi is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Master Yi. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Master Yi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Master Yi during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Master Yi. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nidalee versus Master Yi build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Master Yi than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 43.5% battling Master Yi with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Master Yi 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 sets we have analyed for Nidalee vs Master Yi battles, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 43.5% win rate overall.
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