Nidalee vs Nocturne
How to Beat Nocturne as Nidalee
based on 1,352 Nidalee vs Nocturne matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Nocturne Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Nocturne Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nocturne as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Nocturne
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 Nocturne
Nocturne's Unspeakable Horror is broken with range, so try to save your movement abilities for when he casts it.
Stay close to your allies when Paranoia is cast - there is strength in numbers!
Nidalee vs Nocturne Counter Stats
How to Counter Nocturne with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several vital Nidalee vs. Nocturne matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nocturne’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nocturne..
Nidalee often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Nocturne. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Nocturne
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Nocturne?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Nocturne, with a 41.1% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Nocturne.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Nocturne, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Nocturneas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nocturne. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Nocturne matchups, Nocturne 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Nocturne. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Nocturne.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Nocturne during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nocturne. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Nocturne build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Nocturne than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 41.1% battling Nocturne with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nocturne as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Nidalee vs Nocturne matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 41.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nocturne as Nidalee are presented for all skill levels, merged. To scope the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.