Nidalee vs Darius
How to Beat Darius as Nidalee
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Nidalee vs Darius Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Darius Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Darius as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Darius
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 Darius
When Darius's axe grab is on cooldown, he is vulnerable to harassment attacks.
Darius's ability to escape from fights is limited. If you have an advantage against him, press your lead.
Nidalee vs Darius Counter Stats
How to Counter Darius with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here feature some important Nidalee versus Darius counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Darius’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Darius..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Darius. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Darius
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Darius?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Darius, with a 44.7% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Darius.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Darius, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Dariusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Darius. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Darius matchups, Darius is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Darius. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Darius.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Darius during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Darius. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Darius build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Darius than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.7% battling Darius with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Darius as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 combinations players chose for Nidalee vs Darius clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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