Nidalee vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Nidalee
based on 350 Nidalee vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kassadin
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 Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Nidalee vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize several critical Nidalee versus Kassadin matchup stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Kassadin..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kassadin. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Kassadin, with a 41.1% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Kassadin.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Kassadinas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Kassadin. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Kassadin.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nidalee
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Kassadin during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average accumulates a lot less CS as Kassadin. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. 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, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Kassadin build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Kassadin than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 41.1% battling Kassadin with this build.
To have the best probability of defeating Kassadin 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Kassadin counter picks, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 41.1% win rate overall.
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