Nidalee vs Kayle
How to Beat Kayle as Nidalee
based on 776 Nidalee vs Kayle matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kayle Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kayle Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayle as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kayle
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 Kayle
Kayle starts the game as a weaker melee champion. Try to put her behind before she ascends to her ranged form.
Kayle is usually a fragile target. If you see her ultimate cast on an ally, switch to attacking her.
Divine Judgment only grants Kayle or her allies immunity to damage. Slows and stuns can still be applied, so trap them if they're being overzealous.
Nidalee vs Kayle Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayle with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several influential Nidalee versus Kayle matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kayle’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kayle..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Kayle. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Kayle
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kayle?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Kayle, with a 44.6% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Kayle.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Kayle, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Kayleas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kayle. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kayle matchups, Kayle 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 team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Kayle. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Kayle.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Kayle during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often picks up a lot less CS compared to Kayle. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Kayle build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Kayle than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.6% battling Kayle with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Kayle 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee vs Kayle clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Kayle as Nidalee are displayed for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.