Nidalee vs Skarner
How to Beat Skarner as Nidalee
based on 77 Nidalee vs Skarner matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Skarner Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Skarner Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Skarner as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Skarner
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 Skarner
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
Nidalee vs Skarner Counter Stats
How to Counter Skarner with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Nidalee vs. Skarner matchup stats that can help us grasp the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Skarner. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Skarner. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Skarner
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Skarner?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Skarner, with a 42.9% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Skarner.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Skarner, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Skarneras her relative depth means you may not be able to reach 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 Skarner. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Skarner matchups, Skarner 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Skarner. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Skarner.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Skarner during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Skarner. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Skarner build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Skarner than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 42.9% when countering Skarner with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Skarner 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Skarner counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.9% win rate overall.
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