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.
Try to coordinate high-damage abilities with your allies right after Dr. Mundo uses his ultimate, but if you're unable to kill him quickly with burst he will heal through the damage.
Try casting Ignite when Dr. Mundo uses Sadism to negate a large portion of its healing.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several significant Nidalee against Dr. Mundo counter statistics that can help us appreciate the distinctions between these two champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Dr. Mundo’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Dr. Mundo. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Dr. Mundo. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Dr. Mundo, with a 41.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Dr. Mundo.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Dr. Mundo, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Dr. Mundoas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Dr. Mundo. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Dr. Mundo matchups, Dr. Mundo is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Dr. Mundo. Make sure you focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Dr. Mundo.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Dr. Mundo 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 pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up a lot less CS as Dr. Mundo. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Dr. Mundo build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better against Dr. Mundo than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 41.8% when countering Dr. Mundo with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of beating Dr. Mundo as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Nidalee vs Dr. Mundo matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 41.8% win rate overall.
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