Nidalee vs Sion
How to Beat Sion as Nidalee
based on 729 Nidalee vs Sion matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Sion Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Sion Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sion as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Sion
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 Sion
Use the time after Sion has died to reposition and prepare for his return.
Even if Sion still hits a Decimating Smash, making him release the charge earlier reduces its impact.
Nidalee vs Sion Counter Stats
How to Counter Sion with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some critical Nidalee versus Sion matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Sion’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sion. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes less damage than Sion. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Sion
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Sion?
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 Sion, with a 44.0% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Sion.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Sion, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Sionas 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 only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sion. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Sion matchups, Sion 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Sion. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Sion.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Sion during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually accumulates a lot less CS as Sion. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Sion build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better countering Sion than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.0% when countering Sion with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Sion 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 players chose for Nidalee vs Sion battles, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sion as Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.