Janna vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Janna
based on 642 Janna vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Janna vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Janna vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Janna
Tips for Playing as Janna against Nidalee
Timing Janna's ultimate can push enemies away from a wounded ally or even separate enemies.
Eye of the Storm can be used on allied turrets.
Quickly firing a Howling Gale without the charge up can be used to heavily disable the other team.
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.
Janna vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Janna in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Janna vs. Nidalee counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Janna’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, showing that Janna may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Janna usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Janna and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Janna or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Janna usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 55.6% win rate. Thus, Janna makes a fantastic counter to Nidalee.
While Janna does have a much higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Janna also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Janna into Nidaleeas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Janna also has a great deal of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Janna vs Nidalee matchups, Janna 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 late stage team fights.
Janna is a great counter to Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Janna against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Janna in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Janna typically racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Janna versus Nidalee build consist of Ardent Censer, Dream Maker, and Moonstone Renewer. When Janna incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Janna had an average win rate of 55.6% when playing against Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Nidalee as Janna, you should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Celerity, Scorch, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Janna vs Nidalee LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 55.6% win rate overall.
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