Nidalee vs Zac
How to Beat Zac as Nidalee
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Nidalee vs Zac Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Zac Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zac as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Zac
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 Zac
Kill all of Zac's bloblets when he splits apart to stop him from reforming.
Silences, stuns, roots and knockups will all interrupt Zac when he is charging Elastic Slingshot.
Zac heals from the goo that separates from him. You can crush the goo pieces by stepping on them.
Nidalee vs Zac Counter Stats
How to Counter Zac with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature some valuable Nidalee against Zac counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Zac’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zac..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives less damage than Zac. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Zac
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Zac?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Zac, with a 39.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Zac.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Zac, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more complex champion to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Zacas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Zac. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Zac matchups, Zac is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Zac. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Zac.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Zac 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 mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Zac. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Zac build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better countering Zac than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 39.9% when countering Zac with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Zac 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 players chose for Nidalee vs Zac fights, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 39.9% winrate overall.
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