Zed vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Zed
based on 970 Zed vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Nidalee
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Zed in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several valuable Zed versus Nidalee matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Zed normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Zed or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 53.0% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a good counter to Nidalee.
While Zed does have a higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zed into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Zed vs Nidalee matchups, Zed is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Zed is an above average counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zed in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zed versus Nidalee build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Zed used at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Nidalee than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zed boasted an average win rate of 53.0% battling Nidalee with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nidalee as Zed, Zed players should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Zed vs Nidalee counters, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.0% winrate overall.
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