Bard vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Bard
based on 821 Bard vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Nidalee
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Bard in LoL
The stats shown on this page highlight some significant Bard vs. Nidalee counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Bard or Nidalee?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 55.9% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Nidalee matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Bard to counter Nidalee during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often racks up a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who typically don't take much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, 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 require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Nidalee build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better against Nidalee than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard boasted an average winrate of 55.9% when playing against Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Nidalee as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Bard vs Nidalee counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 55.9% win rate overall.
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