Shyvana vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Shyvana
based on 386 Shyvana vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Shyvana vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Shyvana vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Shyvana
Tips for Playing as Shyvana against Nidalee
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
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.
Shyvana vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Shyvana in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some valuable Shyvana against Nidalee matchup statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the two. As an example, Shyvana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Shyvana may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Shyvana often has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Shyvana and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Shyvana or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Shyvana usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Shyvana makes a great counter for Nidalee.
While Shyvana does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Shyvana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Shyvana into Nidalee.
Additionally, Shyvana 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 trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Shyvana vs Nidalee matchups, Shyvana is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Shyvana is a great counter for Nidalee. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Shyvana against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Shyvana often accumulates more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Shyvana versus Nidalee build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Shyvana combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Nidalee as Shyvana, Shyvana players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Gathering Storm, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Shyvana vs Nidalee battles, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.1% win rate overall.
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