Nidalee vs Jinx
How to Beat Jinx as Nidalee
based on 1,289 Nidalee vs Jinx matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Jinx Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Jinx Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jinx as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Jinx
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 Jinx
Jinx's ultimate does less damage the closer you are to her.
Jinx's minigun takes time to ramp up. If you see her poking with rockets try to jump on her and burst her down.
Jinx's snare grenades have a long cooldown and are her primary means of protecting herself. If she misses with them she will have a hard time escaping if engaged upon.
Nidalee vs Jinx Counter Stats
How to Counter Jinx with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some vital Nidalee vs. Jinx matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jinx’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Jinx..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Jinx. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Jinx
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Jinx?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Jinx, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Jinx.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Jinx, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Jinxas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jinx. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Jinx matchups, Jinx is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Jinx. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Jinx.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Jinx during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Jinx. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Jinx build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Jinx than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.8% when playing against Jinx with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Jinx 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 we have analyed for Nidalee vs Jinx clashes, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.8% win rate overall.
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