Nidalee vs Shen
How to Beat Shen as Nidalee
based on 440 Nidalee vs Shen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Shen Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Shen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Shen as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Shen
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 Shen
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
Nidalee vs Shen Counter Stats
How to Counter Shen with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Nidalee versus Shen counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Shen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Shen..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Shen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Shen
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Shen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Shen, with a 41.6% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Shen.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Shen, 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 be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Shenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Shen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Shen matchups, Shen is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Shen. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Shen.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nidalee
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Additional Information for Nidalee Players
How We Calculated Our Nidalee vs Shen Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Shen 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 suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a lot less CS compared to Shen. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Shen build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Shen than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 41.6% when playing against Shen with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Shen as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Nidalee vs Shen clashes, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 41.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Shen as Nidalee are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu at the top of this page.