Nidalee vs Malphite
How to Beat Malphite as Nidalee
based on 985 Nidalee vs Malphite matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Malphite Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Malphite Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malphite as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Malphite
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 Malphite
If you're a physical damage character stay behind your allies when fighting Malphite. Ground Slam can significantly reduce your damage output.
Malphite is one of a couple tanks who are capable of jungling. Watch out if he gets Smite.
Nidalee vs Malphite Counter Stats
How to Counter Malphite with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here show some significant Nidalee versus Malphite matchup stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Malphite’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Malphite..
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Malphite. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Malphite
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Malphite?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Malphite, with a 43.8% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Malphite.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Malphite, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Malphiteas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Malphite. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Malphite matchups, Malphite is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Malphite. Focus your actions on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Malphite.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Malphite during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often gets a lot less CS compared to Malphite. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Malphite build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Malphite than with many other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 43.8% battling Malphite with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Malphite as Nidalee, you 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 runes players picked for Nidalee vs Malphite counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.8% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malphite as Nidalee are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.