Nidalee vs Zilean
How to Beat Zilean as Nidalee
based on 282 Nidalee vs Zilean matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Zilean Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Zilean Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Zilean as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Zilean
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 Zilean
Zilean is fragile if a team focuses on him, but otherwise he's very difficult to kill. Commit to killing him as a team.
If you're able to match Zilean's speed, it can sometimes be beneficial to wait until his ultimate has faded before landing the killing blow.
Nidalee vs Zilean Counter Stats
How to Counter Zilean with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Nidalee against Zilean matchup stats that may help us realize the distinctions between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Zilean’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Zilean. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee usually has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Zilean. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Zilean
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Zilean?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Zilean, with a 47.5% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Zilean.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Zilean, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Zileanas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Zilean. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Zilean matchups, Zilean is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Zilean. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Zilean.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Zilean during both the early game 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 shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Zilean. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nidalee versus Zilean build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Zilean than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 47.5% when countering Zilean with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Zilean 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 runes players used for Nidalee vs Zilean counters, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.5% winrate overall.
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