Nidalee vs Aphelios
How to Beat Aphelios as Nidalee
based on 599 Nidalee vs Aphelios matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Aphelios Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Aphelios Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Aphelios as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Aphelios
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.
Advice to Win Against Aphelios
Each of Aphelios' weapons have different weaknesses, try to exploit the ones that work best for your champion. Watch out for the purple Gravity gun, it can root you.
Nidalee vs Aphelios Counter Stats
How to Counter Aphelios with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Nidalee against Aphelios matchup statistics that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Aphelios’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Aphelios..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Aphelios. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Aphelios
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Aphelios?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually fairs equally well when playing against Aphelios, with a 49.2% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes an ok counter to Aphelios.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Aphelios, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Apheliosas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Aphelios. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Aphelios matchups, Aphelios is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter for Aphelios. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Aphelios.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Aphelios during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a lot less CS compared to Aphelios. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Aphelios build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Aphelios than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Aphelios with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Aphelios as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Nidalee vs Aphelios battles, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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