Nocturne vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Nocturne
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Nocturne vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Nocturne
Tips for Playing as Nocturne against Nidalee
Use Shroud of Darkness in tandem with Paranoia's dash. Your opponents may panic and waste a critical disable on your spell shield.
Using Paranoia at a critical moment is well worth it even if you cannot use the dash.
Duskbringer isn't only an offensive ability. It can be used to close distance out of combat or escape from certain death.
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Nocturne vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Nocturne in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several vital Nocturne vs. Nidalee matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Nocturne’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nocturne may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Nocturne often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nocturne or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nocturne usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 58.9% win rate. Therefore, Nocturne makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Nocturne does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Nocturne also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nocturne into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Nocturne has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nocturne vs Nidalee matchups, Nocturne is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nocturne is a great counter to Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nocturne against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nocturne to counter Nidalee 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nocturne on average gets a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nocturne versus Nidalee build include Experimental Hexplate, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Eclipse. When Nocturne included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better versus Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nocturne had an average winrate of 58.9% battling Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Nidalee as Nocturne, Nocturne players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Eyeball Collection, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nocturne vs Nidalee face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 58.9% win rate overall.
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