Nidalee vs K'Sante
How to Beat K'Sante as Nidalee
based on 418 Nidalee vs K'Sante matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs K'Sante Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs K'Sante Counter Build
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Guide to Countering K'Sante as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against K'Sante
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 K'Sante
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Nidalee vs K'Sante Counter Stats
How to Counter K'Sante with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several critical Nidalee vs. K'Sante matchup stats that can help us interpret the differences between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than K'Sante’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than K'Sante..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to K'Sante. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and K'Sante
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Who is Better, Nidalee or K'Sante?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against K'Sante, with a 43.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for K'Sante.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to K'Sante, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into K'Santeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to K'Sante. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs K'Sante matchups, K'Sante is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for K'Sante. Focus your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against K'Sante.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter K'Sante during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to K'Sante. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee versus K'Sante build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better versus K'Sante than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 43.8% battling K'Sante with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating K'Sante 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 runes players chose for Nidalee vs K'Sante battles, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 43.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat K'Sante as Nidalee are given for all skill levels combined. If you would like to scope the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.