Nidalee vs Soraka
How to Beat Soraka as Nidalee
based on 626 Nidalee vs Soraka matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Soraka Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Soraka Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Soraka as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Soraka
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 Soraka
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
Nidalee vs Soraka Counter Stats
How to Counter Soraka with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some important Nidalee against Soraka counter statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Soraka. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Soraka
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Soraka?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Soraka, with a 44.4% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Soraka.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Soraka, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Sorakaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Soraka. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Soraka matchups, Soraka 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Soraka. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Soraka.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Soraka during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often picks up more CS as Soraka. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Soraka build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better versus Soraka than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.4% when playing against Soraka with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Soraka 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Soraka counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 44.4% win rate overall.
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