Nidalee vs Xerath
How to Beat Xerath as Nidalee
based on 1,090 Nidalee vs Xerath matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Xerath Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Xerath Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Xerath as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Xerath
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 Xerath
Xerath's range can be intimidating, but most champions who close distance with him can trade favorably.
Banshee's Veil will make it much harder for Xerath to land Shocking Orb on you.
Xerath takes a long time to engage Rite of the Arcane. Watch for his spellcast animation and start dodging.
Nidalee vs Xerath Counter Stats
How to Counter Xerath with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some vital Nidalee against Xerath matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Xerath’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Xerath..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives more damage than Xerath. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Xerath
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Xerath?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Xerath, with a 46.3% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Xerath.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Xerath, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Xerathas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Xerath. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Xerath matchups, Xerath is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Xerath. Focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Xerath.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Xerath during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets less CS as Xerath. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Xerath build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better vs Xerath than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 46.3% battling Xerath with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Xerath as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Xerath matchups, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.3% win rate overall.
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