Nidalee vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Nidalee
based on 1,480 Nidalee vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Akali
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Nidalee vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Nidalee versus Akali matchup stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Akali..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Akali. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Akali
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Akali?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Akali, with a 47.7% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Akali.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Akali, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Akalias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Akali matchups, Akali is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Akali. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Akali.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Akali during both the early game 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 displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up a lot less CS relative to Akali. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Akali build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Akali than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.7% battling Akali with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Akali as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Akali counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.7% win rate overall.
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