Nidalee vs Hwei
How to Beat Hwei as Nidalee
based on 1,173 Nidalee vs Hwei matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Hwei Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Hwei Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hwei as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Hwei
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 Hwei
After Hwei paints a Torment spell he is vulnerable to being rushed down.
Hwei needs to predict your positioning and take time to cast, catch him by surprise.
Hwei's lightning is deadly but slow; it deals more damage when you are alone or unable to move.
Nidalee vs Hwei Counter Stats
How to Counter Hwei with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Nidalee vs. Hwei counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hwei’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Hwei..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Hwei. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Hwei
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Hwei?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually wins when taking on Hwei, with a 51.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a good counter to Hwei.
While Nidalee does have a higher winrate than Hwei, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Nidalee into Hweias her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hwei. 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 a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Hwei matchups, Nidalee is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a decent counter for Hwei. Focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Hwei.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Hwei 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 stats presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up a lot less CS compared to Hwei. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Hwei build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Hwei than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 51.9% when playing against Hwei with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Hwei 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 builds players picked for Nidalee vs Hwei LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.9% winrate overall.
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