Nidalee vs Lux
How to Beat Lux as Nidalee
based on 2,602 Nidalee vs Lux matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Lux Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Lux Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Lux as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Lux
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 Lux
When retreating with low health, be prepared to dodge Lux's Final Spark, a red targeting beam fires prior to the main beam, so try to move to the side if possible.
Lux has powerful zone control abilities. Try to spread out and attack from different directions so she cannot lock down a specific area.
Nidalee vs Lux Counter Stats
How to Counter Lux with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Nidalee vs. Lux matchup stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Lux’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Lux..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Lux. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Lux
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Lux?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Lux, with a 45.2% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Lux.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Lux, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Luxas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Lux. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Lux matchups, Lux is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Lux. Focus your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Lux.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Lux during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up less CS compared to Lux. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Lux build include Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs. Lux than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 45.2% when countering Lux with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Lux as Nidalee, you 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 rune combinations that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Lux LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.2% win rate overall.
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