Brand vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Brand
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Brand vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Brand vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Brand
Tips for Playing as Brand against Nidalee
You can deter enemies from standing near their minions by setting them ablaze, due to Conflagration.
Pyroclasm bounces randomly between enemies, so try to cast it on a small group of enemies if you want to hit the same target multiple times.
You can use Brand's abilities in a variety of combinations to maximize his damage in different situations.
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
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 Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
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.
Brand vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Brand in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Brand vs. Nidalee matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between these two champs. For instance, Brand’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Brand may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee..
Brand usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Brand and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Brand or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Brand usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 57.7% win rate. Thus, Brand makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Brand does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Brand also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Brand into Nidalee.
Additionally, Brand has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Brand vs Nidalee matchups, Brand 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 team fights.
Brand is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Brand against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Brand to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Brand typically picks up more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Brand versus Nidalee build include Liandry's Anguish, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Demonic Embrace. When Brand included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Nidalee than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Brand had an average winrate of 57.7% when countering Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nidalee as Brand, Brand players should use the Dark Harvest, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Brand vs Nidalee clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 57.7% win rate overall.
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