Illaoi vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Illaoi
based on 448 Illaoi vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Nidalee
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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.
Illaoi vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Illaoi in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some important Illaoi versus Nidalee matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Illaoi often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Illaoi and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Illaoi usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 58.3% win rate. As a result, Illaoi makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Illaoi does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Illaoi into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Illaoi has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Nidalee matchups, Illaoi 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 teamfights.
Illaoi is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Illaoi against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Illaoi to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi often accumulates much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Illaoi versus Nidalee build consist of Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Iceborn Gauntlet. When Illaoi combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 58.3% battling Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Nidalee as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Nidalee LoL games, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 58.3% winrate overall.
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