Nidalee vs Rek'Sai
How to Beat Rek'Sai as Nidalee
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Nidalee vs Rek'Sai Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Rek'Sai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rek'Sai as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Rek'Sai
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 Rek'Sai
When Rek'Sai is near, she can see the position of you and your allies, but only if you're moving.
If you see one of Rek'Sai's tunnels, briefly stand on one of the entrances to destroy it.
Rek'Sai's Furious Bite gains damage as she builds Fury. Be very careful around her when her Fury is full.
Nidalee vs Rek'Sai Counter Stats
How to Counter Rek'Sai with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some influential Nidalee against Rek'Sai counter stats that can help you appreciate the differences between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rek'Sai’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Rek'Sai..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Rek'Sai. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Rek'Sai
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Rek'Sai?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Rek'Sai, with a 46.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Rek'Sai.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Rek'Sai, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Rek'Saias her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Rek'Sai. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Rek'Sai matchups, Rek'Sai 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 terribly counter to Rek'Sai. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Rek'Sai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Rek'Sai during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically gets a similar amount of CS relative to Rek'Sai. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Rek'Sai build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Rek'Sai than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 46.8% when playing against Rek'Sai with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of crushing Rek'Sai 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. Of all the rune builds players chose for Nidalee vs Rek'Sai clashes, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.8% winrate overall.
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