Nidalee vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Nidalee
based on 1,649 Nidalee vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Brand Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Brand as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Nidalee vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature some significant Nidalee vs. Brand counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Brand..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Brand?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Brand, with a 42.8% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Brand.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Brand, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Brandas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Brand. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Brand 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 tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up less CS relative to Brand. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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 need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Brand build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Brand than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 42.8% when playing against Brand with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Brand 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. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Brand fights, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 42.8% winrate overall.
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