Nidalee vs Amumu
How to Beat Amumu as Nidalee
based on 619 Nidalee vs Amumu matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Amumu Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Amumu Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Amumu as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Amumu
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Advice to Win Against Amumu
Amumu's Despair makes purchasing primarily Health items a risky proposition.
Erratic movement, or hiding behind creep waves can make it difficult for Amumu to instigate a fight with Bandage Toss.
Avoid bunching up with other allies when Amumu has his ultimate available.
Nidalee vs Amumu Counter Stats
How to Counter Amumu with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature several important Nidalee vs. Amumu matchup statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Amumu’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Amumu..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Amumu. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Amumu
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Amumu?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Amumu, with a 45.6% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Amumu.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Amumu, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Amumuas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Amumu. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Amumu matchups, Amumu is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Amumu. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Amumu.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Amumu during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Amumu. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Amumu build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better against Amumu than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 45.6% battling Amumu with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of beating Amumu as Nidalee, you should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Nidalee vs Amumu LoL games, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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