Nidalee vs Diana
How to Beat Diana as Nidalee
based on 1,051 Nidalee vs Diana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Diana Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Diana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Diana as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Diana
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 Diana
Pale Cascade orbs only last a few seconds. Avoid Diana and engage her after the shield dissipates.
Diana can play very aggressively if she uses Lunar Rush without Moonlight, but you can punish her by slowing or stunning her when she has no way to get back into position.
Dodge Crescent Strike, or move to safety if you are affected by Moonlight.
Nidalee vs Diana Counter Stats
How to Counter Diana with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some vital Nidalee versus Diana counter statistics that may help you understand the differences between this set of champions. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Diana’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Diana..
Nidalee normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Diana. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Diana
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Diana?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Diana, with a 41.4% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Diana.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Diana, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Dianaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Diana. This often 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 Diana matchups, Diana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Diana. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Diana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Diana 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up less CS as Diana. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Diana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Diana than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 41.4% battling Diana with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Diana 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. Out of all the runes players chose for Nidalee vs Diana fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 41.4% win rate overall.
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