Nidalee vs Heimerdinger
How to Beat Heimerdinger as Nidalee
based on 387 Nidalee vs Heimerdinger matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Heimerdinger Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Heimerdinger Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Heimerdinger as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Heimerdinger
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 Heimerdinger
Be wary of Heimerdinger's Upgrade!!!, as he can use it to find an answer to most trouble he gets into. Once his ultimate is down, go in for the kill!
It's better to destroy all of Heimerdinger's turrets at once with the help of creeps than to fight them one at a time.
Nidalee vs Heimerdinger Counter Stats
How to Counter Heimerdinger with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several important Nidalee versus Heimerdinger counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Heimerdinger’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Heimerdinger..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Heimerdinger. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Heimerdinger
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Heimerdinger?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Heimerdinger, with a 44.4% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Heimerdinger.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Heimerdinger, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Heimerdingeras her relative depth means 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 CC and other utility, a similar amount to Heimerdinger. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Heimerdinger matchups, Heimerdinger is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Heimerdinger. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Heimerdinger.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Heimerdinger during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Heimerdinger. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Heimerdinger build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Heimerdinger than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 44.4% when playing against Heimerdinger with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of crushing Heimerdinger as Nidalee, Nidalee players 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 Heimerdinger battles, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.4% winrate overall.
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