Nidalee vs Lucian
How to Beat Lucian as Nidalee
based on 1,550 Nidalee vs Lucian matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Lucian Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Lucian Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lucian as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Lucian
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 Lucian
Lucian cannot change the aim of The Culling. Take advantage of this by avoiding the angle of the bullets.
Lucian has strong burst, but little sustained damage.
Piercing Light does not give Lucian extra Attack Range. He still needs to find a target in range to line up his shot. Avoid Piercing Light by anticipating the angle Lucian will choose.
Nidalee vs Lucian Counter Stats
How to Counter Lucian with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Nidalee against Lucian matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lucian’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lucian..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Lucian. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Lucian
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Lucian?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Lucian, with a 44.3% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Lucian.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Lucian, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Lucianas her relative depth means 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 Lucian. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Lucian matchups, Lucian is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Lucian. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Lucian.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Lucian during both the lane 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 listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up a lot less CS as Lucian. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Lucian build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better vs Lucian than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.3% battling Lucian with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Lucian 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. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nidalee vs Lucian LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.3% win rate overall.
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