Nidalee vs Pyke
How to Beat Pyke as Nidalee
based on 833 Nidalee vs Pyke matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Pyke Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Pyke Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pyke as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Pyke
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 Pyke
Pyke regenerates a significant amount of damage he has taken from enemy champions, but only when you can't see him!
When Pyke is hidden nearby in his Ghostwater Dive, sharks will circle underneath your feet.
Try not to stand near low health allies. If Pyke executes them using Death From Below, you might be next on the list.
Nidalee vs Pyke Counter Stats
How to Counter Pyke with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some important Nidalee versus Pyke matchup stats that can help us explain the distinctions between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pyke’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pyke..
Nidalee often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Pyke. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Pyke
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Pyke?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Pyke, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Pyke.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Pyke, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Pykeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pyke. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Pyke matchups, Pyke is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Pyke. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Pyke.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Pyke during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically gets a similar amount of CS as Pyke. Champs who typically don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Pyke build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Pyke than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Pyke with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of beating Pyke as Nidalee, Nidalee players 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 we have analyed for Nidalee vs Pyke face-offs, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Pyke as Nidalee are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to filter the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.