Nidalee vs Janna
How to Beat Janna as Nidalee
based on 642 Nidalee vs Janna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Janna Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Janna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Janna as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Janna
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 Janna
Janna's at her strongest when buffing another ally. If you can harass her ally, it will weaken her ability to fight you.
Save an interrupt ability for when Janna uses her ultimate.
Listen for the charge up sound on Howling Gale in case Janna is trying to hit you with it from off screen or from brush.
Nidalee vs Janna Counter Stats
How to Counter Janna with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Nidalee against Janna matchup statistics that may help us understand the distinctions between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Janna’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Janna. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Janna. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Janna
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Janna?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Janna, with a 44.4% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Janna.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Janna, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Jannaas 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Janna. This often 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 overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Janna matchups, Janna is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Janna. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Janna.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Janna during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Janna. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Janna build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better against Janna than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when playing against Janna with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Janna as Nidalee, you should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Janna counters, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 44.4% win rate overall.
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