Nidalee vs Yasuo
How to Beat Yasuo as Nidalee
based on 1,695 Nidalee vs Yasuo matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Yasuo Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Yasuo Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Yasuo as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Yasuo
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 Yasuo
Yasuo's shield from Resolve lasts only 2 seconds. Dealing damage to him will trigger it. Wait it out, then engage.
Steel Tempest is very narrow. Dodge laterally if possible.
Yasuo is at his weakest just after he has launched a whirlwind. Engage at that point.
When Yasuo lands two Steel Tempests in a row, his next will fire a tornado. Watch and listen for the associated sound to prepare to dodge.
Nidalee vs Yasuo Counter Stats
How to Counter Yasuo with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Nidalee vs. Yasuo matchup stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Yasuo’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yasuo..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives more damage than Yasuo. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Yasuo
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Yasuo?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Yasuo, with a 42.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Yasuo.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Yasuo, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Yasuoas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yasuo. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Yasuo matchups, Yasuo 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 garbage counter for Yasuo. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Yasuo.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Yasuo during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often gets a lot less CS relative to Yasuo. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Yasuo build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Yasuo than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.8% battling Yasuo with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Yasuo 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 builds players used for Nidalee vs Yasuo counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 42.8% win rate overall.
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