Nidalee vs Gnar
How to Beat Gnar as Nidalee
based on 243 Nidalee vs Gnar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Gnar Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Gnar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gnar as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Gnar
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 Gnar
Gnar's ultimate stuns if he hits you into a wall. Be careful when fighting him near one.
Gnar's animations and resource bar change as he gets closer to transforming.
Gnar can't gain Rage for 15 seconds after he turns from big to little. Use this chance to engage on his team.
Nidalee vs Gnar Counter Stats
How to Counter Gnar with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several influential Nidalee versus Gnar matchup stats that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gnar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Gnar..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Gnar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Gnar?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Gnar, with a 44.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Gnar.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Gnar, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Gnaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gnar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Gnar matchups, Gnar is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Gnar. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Gnar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Gnar during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Gnar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Gnar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Gnar than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.9% battling Gnar with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Gnar 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. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nidalee vs Gnar clashes, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 44.9% winrate overall.
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