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.
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Nidalee vs. Rengar matchup stats that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Rengar’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Rengar..
Nidalee often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Rengar. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Rengar, with a 44.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Rengar.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Rengar, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Rengaras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rengar. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Rengar matchups, Rengar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Rengar. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Rengar.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Rengar 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 tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rengar. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nidalee versus Rengar build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs. Rengar than with most other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 44.1% when playing against Rengar with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Rengar 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 combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Rengar counter picks, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 44.1% winrate overall.
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