K'Sante vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as K'Sante
based on 418 K'Sante vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
K'Sante vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best K'Sante vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as K'Sante
Tips for Playing as K'Sante against Nidalee
Take advantage of Flurry by weaving in basic attacks between spell casts - this maximizes damage output and minimizes Energy loss.
Use Sonic Wave before Dragon's Rage so you can chase the target with Resonating Strike.
Self-casting Safeguard and using Iron Will are powerful tools for killing neutral monsters (in the jungle).
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.
K'Sante vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with K'Sante in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight several influential K'Sante against Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. K'Sante’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that K'Sante may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee..
K'Sante usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than their foe does. On average, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between K'Sante and Nidalee
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Who is Better, K'Sante or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, K'Sante usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 56.2% win rate. As a result, K'Sante makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While K'Sante does have a much higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, K'Sante also has a greater learning curve that makes them a more difficult champion to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking K'Sante into Nidaleeas their relative depth means you may not be able to reach their full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, K'Sante has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in K'Sante vs Nidalee matchups, K'Sante is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
K'Sante is a great counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as K'Sante against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master K'Sante to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
K'Sante usually racks up much more CS as Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to use in your K'Sante versus Nidalee build include Kaenic Rookern, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When K'Sante included at least these three pieces in their build, they did significantly better when facing Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, K'Sante had an average win rate of 56.2% when countering Nidalee with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Nidalee as K'Sante, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Conditioning, Overgrowth, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for K'Sante vs Nidalee face-offs, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 56.2% winrate overall.
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