Senna vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Senna
based on 2,034 Senna vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Senna vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Senna vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Senna
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.
Senna vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Senna in LoL
The stats shown here highlight some influential Senna vs. Nidalee counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Senna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Senna may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Senna usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her foe does. On average, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Senna and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Senna or Nidalee?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Senna usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 53.6% win rate. Thus, Senna makes a great counter for Nidalee.
While Senna does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Senna also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Senna into Nidaleeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Senna has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Senna vs Nidalee matchups, Senna is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Senna is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Senna against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Senna in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Senna often picks up more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Senna versus Nidalee build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Bloodsong, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Senna included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Senna boasted an average win rate of 53.6% when playing against Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Nidalee as Senna, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Cut Down, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Senna vs Nidalee fights, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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