Kindred vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Kindred
based on 508 Kindred vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Nidalee
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Kindred in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some vital Kindred vs. Nidalee counter stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Kindred typically has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kindred and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Kindred or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually wins when taking on Nidalee, with a 53.5% win rate. As a result, Kindred makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Kindred does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Kindred also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kindred into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Kindred has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Nidalee matchups, Kindred is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kindred is a great counter to Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kindred in order to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred most often gets a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Kindred versus Nidalee build include Trinity Force, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred incorporated at least these three items in their build, they did much better vs Nidalee than with many other common builds. In fact, Kindred had an average winrate of 53.5% when countering Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Nidalee as Kindred, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kindred vs Nidalee battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 53.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Nidalee as Kindred are displayed for all skill levels combined. To narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.