Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump
How to Beat Nunu & Willump as Nidalee
based on 618 Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nunu & Willump as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Nunu & Willump
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 Nunu & Willump
Interrupting the charge up on Absolute Zero will lower the amount of damage your team takes.
Using Summoner Flash is a surefire way to escape Absolute Zero.
Biggest Snowball Ever moves very fast but cannot turn as quickly, so don't try to escape it by running away in a straight line. Instead, make sudden, sharp turns.
Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump Counter Stats
How to Counter Nunu & Willump with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several significant Nidalee against Nunu & Willump counter stats that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nunu & Willump..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nunu & Willump. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Nunu & Willump
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Nunu & Willump?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Nunu & Willump, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Nunu & Willump.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Nunu & Willump, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Nunu & Willumpas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nunu & Willump. This 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 in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Nunu & Willump matchups, Nunu & Willump 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 late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Nunu & Willump. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Nunu & Willump.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Nunu & Willump during both the early game 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 stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually gets a similar amount of CS compared to Nunu & Willump. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Nunu & Willump build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Nunu & Willump than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 46.9% battling Nunu & Willump with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Nunu & Willump as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 Nunu & Willump counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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