Nidalee vs Jayce
How to Beat Jayce as Nidalee
based on 355 Nidalee vs Jayce matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Jayce Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Jayce Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jayce as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Jayce
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 Jayce
Jayce is strong in the early game. If he gains the advantage, play defensively.
Jayce can attack in melee or at range. Pay attention to his stance and weapon color to know how he is going to attack.
If you see Jayce drop his Acceleration Gate, be careful, he is probably about to cast Shock Blast.
Nidalee vs Jayce Counter Stats
How to Counter Jayce with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here highlight several significant Nidalee vs. Jayce matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Jayce’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Jayce..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Jayce. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Jayce
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Jayce?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually wins when taking on Jayce, with a 54.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a great counter to Jayce.
While Nidalee does have a much higher winrate than Jayce, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Nidalee into Jayceas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Jayce. This often 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Jayce matchups, Nidalee is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a great counter to Jayce. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Jayce.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Jayce during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Jayce. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Jayce build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Jayce than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 54.4% when playing against Jayce with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Jayce as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Jayce battles, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.4% winrate overall.
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