Nidalee vs Talon
How to Beat Talon as Nidalee
based on 562 Nidalee vs Talon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Talon Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Talon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Talon as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Talon
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 Talon
Talon is heavily reliant on Shadow Assault to escape a fight. When it is down he's significantly more vulnerable.
Talon has unrivaled roaming ability. Make sure to keep track of his position or force him to stay in lane by pushing aggressively.
Talon's attacks are all physical damage. Build armor early to counter his burst damage.
Nidalee vs Talon Counter Stats
How to Counter Talon with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here feature some valuable Nidalee vs. Talon counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Talon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Talon..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Talon. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Talon
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Talon?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Talon, with a 41.1% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Talon.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Talon, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Talonas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Talon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Talon matchups, Talon is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Talon. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Talon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Talon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Talon. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Talon build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Talon than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 41.1% battling Talon with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Talon as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip 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 used for Nidalee vs Talon matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 41.1% winrate overall.
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