Nidalee vs Zed
How to Beat Zed as Nidalee
based on 970 Nidalee vs Zed matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Zed Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zed as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Zed
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 Zed
Zed's Shadow Slash can only slow you if his shadow hits you with it.
Zed receives bonus effect from Attack Damage items he purchases, so Armor is super effective against him.
After Zed uses his Living Shadow, he is at his most vulnerable as his damage, slow, and mobility are both dependent upon it.
Nidalee vs Zed Counter Stats
How to Counter Zed with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several strategic Nidalee vs. Zed counter stats that can help you realize the distinctions between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Zed’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Zed..
Nidalee typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes more damage than Zed. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Zed
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Zed?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Zed, with a 47.0% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Zed.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Zed, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Zedas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zed. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Zed matchups, Zed is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Zed. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Zed.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Zed during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, 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 as Zed. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nidalee versus Zed build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Zed than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.0% when countering Zed with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Zed as Nidalee, you should use 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 we have analyed for Nidalee vs Zed matchups, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.0% win rate overall.
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