Nidalee vs Shaco
How to Beat Shaco as Nidalee
based on 960 Nidalee vs Shaco matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Shaco Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Shaco Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shaco as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Shaco
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 Shaco
If Shaco is doing well early-game, it is worth the investment to place Stealth Wards near his Jungle camps.
If Shaco uses Deceive to enter a fight he won't be able to quickly use it again to get away. Work with your team to quickly focus him down.
Nidalee vs Shaco Counter Stats
How to Counter Shaco with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some strategic Nidalee versus Shaco counter statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shaco’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shaco..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Shaco. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Shaco
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Shaco?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Shaco, with a 45.4% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Shaco.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Shaco, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Shacoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shaco. This 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 Shaco matchups, Shaco is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Shaco. Focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Shaco.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Shaco during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Shaco. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Shaco build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed much better countering Shaco than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 45.4% battling Shaco with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Shaco as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Shaco counters, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.4% winrate overall.
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