Graves vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Graves
based on 1,212 Graves vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Graves vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Graves vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Graves
Tips for Playing as Graves against Nidalee
Smoke Screen can be used both to escape and to set up a kill.
Using Quickdraw to get into range and delivering a point blank Buckshot can do lots of damage.
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.
Graves vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Graves in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Graves versus Nidalee counter statistics that can help you understand the differences between the pair. For instance, Graves’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Graves may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Graves normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Graves and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Graves or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Graves usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 55.6% win rate. As a result, Graves makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Graves does have a much higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Graves also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to learn and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Graves into Nidalee.
Moreover, Graves also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Graves vs Nidalee matchups, Graves 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 teamfights.
Graves is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Graves against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Graves to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Graves usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Graves versus Nidalee build consist of Bloodthirster, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and The Collector. When Graves included at least these three items in his build, he performed much better when fighting Nidalee than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Graves boasted an average winrate of 55.6% when playing against Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Nidalee as Graves, Graves players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Graves vs Nidalee fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 55.6% winrate overall.
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