After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
The stats shown on this page feature some strategic Nilah vs. Hwei matchup statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Nilah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nilah may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Hwei..
Nilah normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than their enemy does. Commonly, they takes more damage than Hwei. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nilah usually wins when trying to fight Hwei, with a 54.3% win rate. Thus, Nilah makes a great counter for Hwei.
While Nilah does have a much higher win rate compared to Hwei, when they face off with one another, Nilah also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nilah into Hweias their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nilah has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nilah vs Hwei matchups, Nilah is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nilah is a great counter for Hwei. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nilah against Hwei.
To truly master Nilah in order to counter Hwei during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nilah usually gets a similar amount of CS as Hwei. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nilah versus Hwei build consist of Bloodthirster, Immortal Shieldbow, and Navori Quickblades. When Nilah included at least these three items in their build, they did a lot better versus Hwei than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nilah boasted an average win rate of 54.3% battling Hwei with these items in their kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Hwei as Nilah, Nilah players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nilah vs Hwei matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 54.3% winrate overall.
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