Alistar vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Alistar
based on 434 Alistar vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Nidalee
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
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.
Alistar vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Alistar in LoL
The stats shown here feature several vital Alistar against Nidalee matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Alistar normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Alistar or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Alistar usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 59.7% win rate. Thus, Alistar makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Alistar does have a much higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when facing one another, Alistar also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Nidaleeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Nidalee matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Alistar is a great counter for Nidalee. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Alistar against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue 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 significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Alistar versus Nidalee build include Zeke's Convergence, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 59.7% when playing against Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nidalee as Alistar, Alistar players should use the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Alistar vs Nidalee fights, this combination of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 59.7% win rate overall.
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