Soraka vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Soraka
based on 626 Soraka vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Soraka vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Soraka vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Soraka
Tips for Playing as Soraka against Nidalee
Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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.
Soraka vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Soraka in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some valuable Soraka against Nidalee counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences between these two champions. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Soraka typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Soraka and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Soraka or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 55.6% win rate. As a result, Soraka makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Soraka does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Soraka also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Soraka into Nidalee.
Additionally, Soraka has a very large amount of utility and CC, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Nidalee matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Soraka is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Soraka against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Soraka in order to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka usually racks up less CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Soraka versus Nidalee build include Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better countering Nidalee than with most other common item sets. In fact, Soraka boasted an average win rate of 55.6% when playing against Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Nidalee as Soraka, Soraka players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Bone Plating, and Revitalize runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Soraka vs Nidalee fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.6% win rate overall.
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