Nidalee vs Tristana
How to Beat Tristana as Nidalee
based on 830 Nidalee vs Tristana matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Tristana Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Tristana Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Tristana as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Tristana
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 Tristana
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
Nidalee vs Tristana Counter Stats
How to Counter Tristana with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page show several vital Nidalee against Tristana counter stats that may help us grasp the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tristana..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Tristana. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Tristana
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Tristana?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Tristana, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Tristana.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Tristana, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Tristanaas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Tristana. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Tristana matchups, Tristana is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Tristana. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Tristana.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often picks up a lot less CS as Tristana. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Tristana build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Tristana than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.1% battling Tristana with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Tristana as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Nidalee vs Tristana face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.1% win rate overall.
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