Kassadin vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Kassadin
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Kassadin vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Kassadin vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Kassadin
Tips for Playing as Kassadin against Nidalee
Kassadin's ultimate has many uses and is on a shorter cooldown than most, use it often.
Kassadin has multiple item paths; he can go caster via Mana and Ability Power or anti-caster with Cooldown Reduction and Magic Resist.
Try to get the Ancient Golem buff to counteract Riftwalk's increasing Mana cost.
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.
Kassadin vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Kassadin in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several influential Kassadin against Nidalee matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Kassadin’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kassadin may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee..
Kassadin often has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kassadin and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Kassadin or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kassadin usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 58.9% win rate. As a result, Kassadin makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Kassadin does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Kassadin also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Kassadin into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Kassadin also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kassadin vs Nidalee matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Kassadin is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kassadin against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kassadin in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kassadin on average gets much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kassadin versus Nidalee build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Rod of Ages. When Kassadin combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better versus Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Kassadin boasted an average winrate of 58.9% when countering Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Nidalee as Kassadin, Kassadin players should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Kassadin vs Nidalee clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 58.9% winrate overall.
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