Kog'Maw vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Kog'Maw
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Kog'Maw vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Kog'Maw vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Kog'Maw
Tips for Playing as Kog'Maw against Nidalee
Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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.
Kog'Maw vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Kog'Maw in LoL
The stats provided here underscore several influential Kog'Maw vs. Nidalee counter stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Kog'Maw normally has a similar longest killing spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Nidalee. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kog'Maw and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Kog'Maw or Nidalee?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kog'Maw usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 54.3% win rate. As a result, Kog'Maw makes a great counter for Nidalee.
While Kog'Maw does have a much higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Kog'Maw into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. 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 Kog'Maw vs Nidalee matchups, Kog'Maw is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a great counter to Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw to counter Nidalee during both the laning 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 listen to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw most often racks up much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Kog'Maw versus Nidalee build include Runaan's Hurricane, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Kog'Maw combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Nidalee than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 54.3% when playing against Nidalee with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Nidalee as Kog'Maw, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kog'Maw vs Nidalee face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.3% win rate overall.
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