Nidalee vs Xayah
How to Beat Xayah as Nidalee
based on 373 Nidalee vs Xayah matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Xayah Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Xayah Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xayah as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Xayah
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 Xayah
Xayah's Bladecaller will only root targets hit by 3 or more returning Feathers.
Long fights in the same area with Xayah will allow her to drop a lot of Feathers. Try to stay on the move!
Make sure you are ready when you go for the kill. Untargetability from Featherstorm can quickly turn an ambush in Xayah's favor.
Nidalee vs Xayah Counter Stats
How to Counter Xayah with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several influential Nidalee vs. Xayah counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Xayah’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Xayah..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Xayah. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Xayah
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Xayah?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Xayah, with a 45.0% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Xayah.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Xayah, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Xayahas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xayah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Xayah matchups, Xayah 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Xayah. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Xayah.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Xayah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Xayah. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Xayah build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Xayah than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 45.0% battling Xayah with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Xayah 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 used for Nidalee vs Xayah matchups, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 45.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Xayah as Nidalee are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.