Nidalee vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Nidalee
based on 521 Nidalee vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Akshan
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Nidalee vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here feature several significant Nidalee vs. Akshan matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akshan’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Akshan..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Akshan. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Akshan
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Akshan?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Akshan, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Akshan.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Akshan, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Akshanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Akshan matchups, Akshan is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Akshan. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Akshan. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Akshan build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Akshan than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when countering Akshan with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Akshan as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee vs Akshan counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.8% win rate overall.
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