Shaco vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Shaco
based on 960 Shaco vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shaco vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Shaco vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Shaco
Tips for Playing as Shaco against Nidalee
Using Deceive over terrain can help you make a clean escape.
Try getting items with on-hit effects. These will also benefit your Hallucination clone.
Backstab's damage can be increased with increased Critical Damage effects like Infinity Edge.
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.
Shaco vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Shaco in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several influential Shaco versus Nidalee counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Shaco’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Shaco may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee..
Shaco normally has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Shaco and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Shaco or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shaco usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 54.6% win rate. As a result, Shaco makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Shaco does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Shaco also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Shaco into Nidaleeas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Shaco also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Shaco vs Nidalee matchups, Shaco is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shaco is a great counter for Nidalee. Focus your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Shaco against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Shaco in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shaco typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champs who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost 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 use in your Shaco versus Nidalee build consist of Profane Hydra, Voltaic Cyclosword, and Opportunity. When Shaco bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Nidalee than with most other common builds. In fact, Shaco had an average winrate of 54.6% when playing against Nidalee with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Nidalee as Shaco, Shaco players should equip the Hail of Blades, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Legend: Alacrity runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Shaco vs Nidalee clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.6% winrate overall.
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