Nidalee vs Graves
How to Beat Graves as Nidalee
based on 1,212 Nidalee vs Graves matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Graves Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Graves Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Graves as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Graves
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 Graves
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
Nidalee vs Graves Counter Stats
How to Counter Graves with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some valuable Nidalee against Graves matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Graves’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Graves..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her enemy does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Graves. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Graves
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Graves?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Graves, with a 44.4% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Graves.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Graves, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Gravesas 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 almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Graves. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Graves matchups, Graves is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nidalee is a bad counter for Graves. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Graves.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Nidalee to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Graves. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Graves build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better when facing Graves than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.4% when playing against Graves with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Graves as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Cosmic Insight, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nidalee vs Graves matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.4% winrate overall.
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