Garen vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Garen
based on 1,582 Garen vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Nidalee
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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 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.
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.
Garen vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Garen in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several critical Garen versus Nidalee matchup stats that can help you figure out the distinctions between the two. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, showing that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Garen often has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Garen or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 56.8% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Garen does have a much higher winrate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Garen also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Garen into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Garen vs Nidalee matchups, Garen is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Garen is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Garen against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Garen to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen on average gets much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Garen versus Nidalee build consist of Stridebreaker, Mortal Reminder, and Force of Nature. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Nidalee than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 56.8% battling Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Nidalee as Garen, Garen players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Garen vs Nidalee battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 56.8% win rate overall.
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