Nidalee vs Draven
How to Beat Draven as Nidalee
based on 852 Nidalee vs Draven matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Draven Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Draven Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Draven as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Draven
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 Draven
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
Nidalee vs Draven Counter Stats
How to Counter Draven with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Nidalee versus Draven counter stats that can help us understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Draven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Draven..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Draven. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Draven
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Draven?
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Draven, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Draven.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Draven, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Dravenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Draven. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Draven.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Draven during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically gets a lot less CS compared to Draven. Champions who typically 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 capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Draven build consist of Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Draven than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 46.4% when playing against Draven with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Draven as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Draven matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Draven as Nidalee are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.