diff --git a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/OsuPerformanceCalculator.cs b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/OsuPerformanceCalculator.cs
index f191180630..dc2df39cdb 100644
--- a/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/OsuPerformanceCalculator.cs
+++ b/osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu/Difficulty/OsuPerformanceCalculator.cs
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Rulesets.Osu.Difficulty
                 {
                     // We add tick misses here since they too mean that the player didn't follow the slider properly
                     // We however aren't adding misses here because missing slider heads has a harsh penalty by itself and doesn't mean that the rest of the slider wasn't followed properly
-                    estimateImproperlyFollowedDifficultSliders = Math.Min(countSliderEndsDropped + countSliderTickMiss, attributes.AimDifficultSliderCount);
+                    estimateImproperlyFollowedDifficultSliders = Math.Clamp(countSliderEndsDropped + countSliderTickMiss, 0, attributes.AimDifficultSliderCount);
                 }
 
                 double sliderNerfFactor = (1 - attributes.SliderFactor) * Math.Pow(1 - estimateImproperlyFollowedDifficultSliders / attributes.AimDifficultSliderCount, 3) + attributes.SliderFactor;