Nidalee vs Rakan
How to Beat Rakan as Nidalee
based on 763 Nidalee vs Rakan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Rakan Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Rakan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rakan as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Rakan
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 Rakan
Champions with crowd control that can be applied quickly excel against Rakan.
Catching Rakan with no allies around severely inhibits his mobility. Try to find him alone.
Rakan's movement abilities forecast their destination. Try to use this to your advantage.
Nidalee vs Rakan Counter Stats
How to Counter Rakan with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Nidalee against Rakan matchup statistics that can help you realize the differences between these two champs. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rakan’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rakan. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she takes more damage than Rakan. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Rakan
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Rakan?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Rakan, with a 41.0% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Rakan.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Rakan, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Rakanas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rakan. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Rakan matchups, Rakan is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Rakan. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Rakan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Rakan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Rakan. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, 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, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nidalee versus Rakan build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better when facing Rakan than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 41.0% when playing against Rakan with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Rakan 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Rakan counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 41.0% win rate overall.
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