Nidalee vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Nidalee
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Nidalee vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Nidalee vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some important Nidalee against Garen matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences between this set of champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Garen..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Garen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Garen
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Garen?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Garen, with a 45.1% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Garen.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate than Garen, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Garenas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Garen matchups, Garen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Garen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average accumulates a lot less CS compared to Garen. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to have in your Nidalee versus Garen build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Garen than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 45.1% when countering Garen with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Garen 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 runes players picked for Nidalee vs Garen fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.1% winrate overall.
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