Nidalee vs Sylas
How to Beat Sylas as Nidalee
based on 816 Nidalee vs Sylas matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Sylas Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Sylas Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Sylas as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Sylas
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 Sylas
Try to fight Sylas when he isn't able to take your ultimate.
Sylas's healthbar can be deceptive, watch out for his Kingslayer!
Nidalee vs Sylas Counter Stats
How to Counter Sylas with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several valuable Nidalee versus Sylas matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Sylas’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Sylas..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Sylas. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Sylas
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Sylas?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Sylas, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Sylas.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Sylas, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Sylasas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Sylas. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Sylas matchups, Sylas is the better champ 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 garbage counter to Sylas. Make sure you 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 Sylas.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Sylas during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates a lot less CS compared to Sylas. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Sylas build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Sylas than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 45.2% when countering Sylas with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Sylas 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 runes players used for Nidalee vs Sylas clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 45.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Sylas as Nidalee are presented for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to an individual rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.