Lux vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Lux
based on 2,602 Lux vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Nidalee
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several strategic Lux vs. Nidalee counter stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the pair. Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Lux normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Lux or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Lux usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 54.8% win rate. As a result, Lux makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Lux does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Lux also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Lux into Nidalee.
Additionally, Lux has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Nidalee matchups, Lux is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lux is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Lux against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux most often racks up more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Lux versus Nidalee build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Lux combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better against Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Lux boasted an average win rate of 54.8% when countering Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Nidalee as Lux, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Lux vs Nidalee counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nidalee as Lux are presented for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.