Nidalee vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Nidalee
based on 210 Nidalee vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Nidalee vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here clarify several important Nidalee against Kog'Maw matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Kog'Maw..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Kog'Maw. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kog'Maw?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Kog'Maw, with a 45.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Kog'Maw.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Kog'Maw, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Kog'Mawas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kog'Maw matchups, Kog'Maw 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 teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Kog'Maw. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Kog'Maw during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often gets a lot less CS as Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Kog'Maw build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Kog'Maw than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 45.7% when playing against Kog'Maw with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Kog'Maw 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Nidalee vs Kog'Maw counters, this composite of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.7% win rate overall.
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