Zyra vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Zyra
based on 1,122 Zyra vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zyra vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Zyra vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Zyra
Tips for Playing as Zyra against Nidalee
Seeds grant vision to your team.
Placing a seed in your spell's path after you have cast it gives you the best chance of having a seed in the proper spot.
Zyra is a great ambusher - look for opportunities to set a trap of seeds in brush, then lure enemies in.
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.
Zyra vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Zyra in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize some important Zyra against Nidalee matchup stats that may help you understand the distinctions between this pair of champions. For instance, Zyra’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zyra may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Zyra normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zyra and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Zyra or Nidalee?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zyra usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 58.0% win rate. Therefore, Zyra makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Zyra does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Zyra also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zyra into Nidaleeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zyra also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zyra vs Nidalee matchups, Zyra is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Zyra is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zyra against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zyra in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zyra often racks up a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Zyra versus Nidalee build include Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Liandry's Torment. When Zyra included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Zyra had an average win rate of 58.0% when countering Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Nidalee as Zyra, Zyra players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Relentless Hunter, and Taste of Blood runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Zyra vs Nidalee face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 58.0% win rate overall.
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