Nidalee vs Kindred
How to Beat Kindred as Nidalee
based on 508 Nidalee vs Kindred matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Kindred Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Kindred Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kindred as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Kindred
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 Kindred
When Kindred uses Lamb's Respite get inside, it stops all champions from dying.
Kindred is fragile - turn the pressure up on her, and she will be forced to play cautiously.
Clear the Hunts Wolf activates on jungle camps to slow down Kindred's damage output.
Nidalee vs Kindred Counter Stats
How to Counter Kindred with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here clarify some strategic Nidalee vs. Kindred matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kindred’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Kindred..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Kindred. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Kindred
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Kindred?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Kindred, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Kindred.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Kindred, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Kindredas 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 only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kindred. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Kindred matchups, Kindred is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Kindred. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Kindred.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Kindred during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Kindred. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Kindred build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Kindred than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.5% when playing against Kindred with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Kindred as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 chose for Nidalee vs Kindred fights, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.5% winrate overall.
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