Nidalee vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Nidalee
based on 821 Nidalee vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Nidalee vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some critical Nidalee against Bard counter statistics that may help you grasp the distinctions between this pair of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Bard
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 44.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Bardas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average gets a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They 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 situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.1% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Bard as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nidalee vs Bard clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 44.1% win rate overall.
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