Nidalee vs Viktor
How to Beat Viktor as Nidalee
based on 386 Nidalee vs Viktor matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Viktor Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Viktor Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Viktor as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Viktor
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 Viktor
Be careful about how close you let Viktor get to you. Viktor's control of the battlefield increases with his proximity to his opponent.
Be aware of how many augments Viktor has upgraded by looking at the color of the light on his staff (purple, yellow, blue, red).
Nidalee vs Viktor Counter Stats
How to Counter Viktor with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several significant Nidalee versus Viktor matchup stats that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Viktor’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Viktor..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Viktor. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Viktor
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Viktor?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Viktor, with a 45.3% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Viktor.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Viktor, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Viktoras 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Viktor. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Viktor matchups, Viktor is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Viktor. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Viktor.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Viktor during both the lane 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 displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up a lot less CS compared to Viktor. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Viktor build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Viktor than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 45.3% when countering Viktor with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of defeating Viktor as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 used for Nidalee vs Viktor counterpicks, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 45.3% winrate overall.
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