Nidalee vs Cassiopeia
How to Beat Cassiopeia as Nidalee
based on 261 Nidalee vs Cassiopeia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Cassiopeia Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Cassiopeia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Cassiopeia as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Cassiopeia
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 Cassiopeia
Be wary of Cassiopeia's damage potential with Twin Fang when she has you poisoned.
Turn away from Cassiopeia when she is casting Petrifying Gaze to get slowed instead of stunned.
Nidalee vs Cassiopeia Counter Stats
How to Counter Cassiopeia with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several strategic Nidalee against Cassiopeia matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Cassiopeia’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Cassiopeia..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Cassiopeia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Cassiopeia
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Cassiopeia?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Cassiopeia, with a 38.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Cassiopeia.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Cassiopeia, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Cassiopeiaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Cassiopeia. 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 in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Cassiopeia matchups, Cassiopeia is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Cassiopeia. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Cassiopeia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Cassiopeia during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, 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 relative to Cassiopeia. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nidalee versus Cassiopeia build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Cassiopeia than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 38.7% when countering Cassiopeia with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Cassiopeia as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Cassiopeia counters, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 38.7% win rate overall.
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