Zoe vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Zoe
based on 345 Zoe vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zoe vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Zoe vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Zoe
Tips for Playing as Zoe against Nidalee
Sleepy Trouble Bubble travels further over walls. Find a hiding spot to set up for a long distance kill.
Break Sleep with your biggest damage source, since enemies who are asleep take double damage.
Paddle Star deals more damage the further it has flown. Casting it behind yourself before redirecting can deal tons of damage.
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.
Zoe vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Zoe in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several critical Zoe vs. Nidalee counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. Zoe’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Zoe may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Zoe often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zoe and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Zoe or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zoe usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Zoe makes a good counter for Nidalee.
While Zoe does have a higher winrate than Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Zoe also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Zoe into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Zoe has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often 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 in League of Legends, in Zoe vs Nidalee matchups, Zoe is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Zoe is a decent counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zoe against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Zoe to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zoe typically picks up much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Zoe versus Nidalee build include Shadowflame, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Zoe used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Zoe had an average winrate of 51.9% battling Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Nidalee as Zoe, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Zoe vs Nidalee counters, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.9% winrate overall.
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