Katarina vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Katarina
based on 908 Katarina vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Nidalee
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some influential Katarina vs. Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Katarina or Nidalee?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Katarina usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 57.7% win rate. As a result, Katarina makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Katarina does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Katarina into Nidaleeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Nidalee matchups, Katarina is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Katarina is a great counter for Nidalee. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina in order to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often gets much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Katarina versus Nidalee build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Nidalee than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 57.7% when countering Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Nidalee as Katarina, you should take the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Katarina vs Nidalee clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 57.7% winrate overall.
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