Nidalee vs Poppy
How to Beat Poppy as Nidalee
based on 435 Nidalee vs Poppy matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Poppy Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Poppy Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Poppy as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Poppy
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 Poppy
Poppy can stop nearby enemies from dashing with Steadfast Presence.
When Poppy starts to spin her hammer, she is charging Keeper's Verdict.
You can step on Poppy's shield to deny it from her.
Nidalee vs Poppy Counter Stats
How to Counter Poppy with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Nidalee against Poppy counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Poppy’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Poppy..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Poppy. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Poppy
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Poppy?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Poppy, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Poppy.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Poppy, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Poppyas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Poppy. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Poppy matchups, Poppy is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Poppy. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Poppy.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Poppy during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average picks up less CS as Poppy. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Poppy build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Poppy than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Poppy with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Poppy 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 rune sets players picked for Nidalee vs Poppy counters, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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