Nidalee vs Wukong
How to Beat Wukong as Nidalee
based on 294 Nidalee vs Wukong matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Wukong Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Wukong Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Wukong as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Wukong
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 Wukong
Wukong becomes tougher to kill when surrounded by his enemies. Try to isolate him to gain an advantage.
Wukong will often use Decoy after Nimbus Strike. Try delaying your abilities by a short amount of time to ensure that you're hitting the real Wukong.
Nidalee vs Wukong Counter Stats
How to Counter Wukong with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several strategic Nidalee against Wukong matchup stats that may help you figure out the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Wukong’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Wukong..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Wukong. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Wukong
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Wukong?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Wukong, with a 46.9% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Wukong.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Wukong, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Wukongas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Wukong. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Wukong matchups, Wukong 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Wukong. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Wukong.
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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 Wukong during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up less CS compared to Wukong. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Nidalee versus Wukong build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Wukong than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Wukong with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Wukong 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 builds players picked for Nidalee vs Wukong counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
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