Nidalee vs Varus
How to Beat Varus as Nidalee
based on 1,079 Nidalee vs Varus matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Varus Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Varus Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Varus as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Varus
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 Varus
When he gets a kill or assist, Varus temporarily gains Attack Speed and is much more dangerous.
You'll get bound in place if a tendril from Varus' ultimate, Chain of Corruption, reaches you. You can cause the tendril to die however by running far enough away from it.
If you are affected by Blight, Varus' abilities will deal extra damage to you.
Nidalee vs Varus Counter Stats
How to Counter Varus with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Nidalee vs. Varus counter stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Varus’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Varus..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes more damage than Varus. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Varus
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Varus?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Varus, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Varus.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Varus, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nidalee into Varusas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Varus. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Varus matchups, Varus is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter for Varus. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Varus.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Varus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often racks up a lot less CS as Varus. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Varus build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Varus than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 48.4% battling Varus with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Varus 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 runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Varus battles, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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