Taric vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Taric
based on 213 Taric vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Nidalee
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
Taric vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several influential Taric versus Nidalee matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Nidalee. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Taric or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Taric usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 49.3% win rate. Thus, Taric makes an ok counter for Nidalee.
While Taric does have a lower win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Taric also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Taric into Nidalee.
Moreover, Taric also has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Nidalee matchups, Nidalee is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Taric is a somewhat poor counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Taric against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Taric in order to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who on average don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Taric versus Nidalee build consist of Knight's Vow, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Taric used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Taric had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nidalee as Taric, Taric players should equip the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Taric vs Nidalee counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.3% win rate overall.
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