Nidalee vs Lee Sin
How to Beat Lee Sin as Nidalee
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Nidalee vs Lee Sin Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Lee Sin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lee Sin as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Lee Sin
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 Lee Sin
Lee Sin relies heavily on following up with his abilities. Use disables to prevent him from chaining together his abilities and attacks.
Stay spread out to minimize the impact of Lee Sin's ultimate, Dragon's Rage.
Lee Sin has powerful tools to combat physical damage in Iron Will and Cripple but he is still vulnerable to magic damage.
Nidalee vs Lee Sin Counter Stats
How to Counter Lee Sin with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Nidalee versus Lee Sin matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Lee Sin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Lee Sin..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she takes less damage than Lee Sin. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Lee Sin?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Lee Sin, with a 47.9% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Lee Sin.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Lee Sin, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Lee Sinas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach 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 Lee Sin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Lee Sin matchups, Lee Sin is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Lee Sin. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Lee Sin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Lee Sin 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often picks up a similar amount of CS as Lee Sin. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Lee Sin build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Lee Sin than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.9% when countering Lee Sin with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Lee Sin as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Nidalee vs Lee Sin LoL games, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.9% winrate overall.
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