Nidalee vs Jax
How to Beat Jax as Nidalee
based on 1,743 Nidalee vs Jax matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Jax Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Jax Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jax as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Jax
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 Jax
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
Nidalee vs Jax Counter Stats
How to Counter Jax with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some strategic Nidalee vs. Jax counter statistics that may help us figure out the differences between this set of champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jax..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Jax. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Jax
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Jax?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Jax, with a 44.3% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Jax.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Jax, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Jaxas her relative depth means 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 Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Jax matchups, Jax 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Jax. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Jax.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Jax during both the lane 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 tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up less CS compared to Jax. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Jax build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs Jax than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.3% when countering Jax with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Jax 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 builds we have analyed for Nidalee vs Jax battles, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.3% winrate overall.
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