Nidalee vs Gangplank
How to Beat Gangplank as Nidalee
based on 404 Nidalee vs Gangplank matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Gangplank Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Gangplank Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gangplank as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Gangplank
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 Gangplank
Parrrley deals a high amount of physical damage. Items that grant Armor can help if an enemy Gangplank is doing well.
Once Gangplank reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, Cannon Barrage!
Nidalee vs Gangplank Counter Stats
How to Counter Gangplank with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some vital Nidalee against Gangplank counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gangplank’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Gangplank..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Gangplank. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Gangplank
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Gangplank?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Gangplank, with a 42.1% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Gangplank.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Gangplank, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Gangplankas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gangplank. 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Gangplank matchups, Gangplank is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Gangplank. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Gangplank.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Gangplank during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up a lot less CS as Gangplank. Champs who typically don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Gangplank build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better versus Gangplank than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 42.1% when playing against Gangplank with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Gangplank as Nidalee, you 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Gangplank counterpicks, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 42.1% win rate overall.
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