Nidalee vs Kai'Sa
How to Beat Kai'Sa as Nidalee
based on 1,131 Nidalee vs Kai'Sa matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kai'Sa Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kai'Sa Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kai'Sa as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kai'Sa
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 Kai'Sa
Kai'Sa is very vulnerable to getting outranged by mages and long range carries.
Make sure to place wards in your blind spots so you can see Kai'Sa coming.
Kai'Sa is very good at picking off isolated enemies. Stick together against her.
Nidalee vs Kai'Sa Counter Stats
How to Counter Kai'Sa with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several strategic Nidalee vs. Kai'Sa matchup stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champs. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Kai'Sa..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kai'Sa. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Kai'Sa
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kai'Sa?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Kai'Sa, with a 44.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Kai'Sa.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Kai'Sa, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Kai'Saas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kai'Sa. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kai'Sa matchups, Kai'Sa 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 late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Kai'Sa. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Kai'Sa.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Kai'Sa during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Kai'Sa. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Kai'Sa build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Kai'Sa than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.9% battling Kai'Sa with this build.
To have the highest probability of beating Kai'Sa as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Nidalee vs Kai'Sa counters, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kai'Sa as Nidalee are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific skill level, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.