Nidalee vs Sivir
How to Beat Sivir as Nidalee
based on 353 Nidalee vs Sivir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Sivir Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Sivir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sivir as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Sivir
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 Sivir
When laning against Sivir, it is possible to throw off the timing of her Spell Shield by faking an advance, then backing off.
Sivir is a powerful pushing champion, so leaving her unattended in a lane for too long will often result in your turrets being destroyed.
Boomerang Blade costs a lot of mana to cast, so dodging it sets Sivir back. If it hits you on the way out, avoid its path on the way back.
Nidalee vs Sivir Counter Stats
How to Counter Sivir with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here highlight several influential Nidalee vs. Sivir counter stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sivir’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Sivir..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Sivir. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Sivir
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Sivir?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually fairs equally well when facing off against Sivir, with a 49.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes an ok counter for Sivir.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Sivir, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Siviras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sivir. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Sivir matchups, Sivir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter to Sivir. Make sure you focus your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Sivir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Sivir during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Sivir. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nidalee versus Sivir build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Sivir than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 49.9% when countering Sivir with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of crushing Sivir as Nidalee, you 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 rune combinations players chose for Nidalee vs Sivir clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.9% winrate overall.
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