Talon vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Talon
based on 562 Talon vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Talon vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Talon vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Talon
Tips for Playing as Talon against Nidalee
Shadow Assault is a powerful escape tool, but can also be offensively used to assault a group.
You can use Assassin's Path to get behind the enemy and set up for Noxian Diplomacy's melee attack.
Remember to pick your target before the fight. Focusing all of Talon's abilities on one target can be very rewarding, but splitting them up between many may leave you helpless.
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Talon vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Talon in LoL
The stats provided here show several significant Talon vs. Nidalee matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. Talon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Talon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Talon typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Talon and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Talon or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Talon usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 58.9% win rate. As a result, Talon makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Talon does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Talon also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You don't need to be too worried when picking Talon into Nidaleeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Talon has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Talon vs Nidalee matchups, Talon is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Talon is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Talon against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Talon in order to counter Nidalee 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Talon on average accumulates much more CS as Nidalee. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Talon versus Nidalee build consist of Youmuu's Ghostblade, Axiom Arc, and Opportunity. When Talon bought at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Talon had an average win rate of 58.9% when playing against Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of beating Nidalee as Talon, Talon players should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Absolute Focus runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Talon vs Nidalee counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 58.9% win rate overall.
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