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.
Rumble deals almost entirely magic damage. Build some Magic Resistance to reduce his damage.
Watch Rumble's Heat bar carefully. If you see him Overheat, go in for the kill while his skills are disabled.
Rumble's ultimate can deal a lot of damage if you stay inside the area of effect. When you see the missiles falling, move out of the way as quickly as possible.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore some strategic Nidalee against Rumble counter stats that may help us interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rumble’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rumble..
Nidalee often has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Rumble. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Rumble, with a 46.0% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Rumble.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Rumble, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Rumbleas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rumble. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Rumble matchups, Rumble is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Rumble. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Rumble.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Rumble during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen 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 most often gets a lot less CS as Rumble. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Rumble build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Rumble than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 46.0% when playing against Rumble with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Rumble 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. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Rumble LoL games, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.0% win rate overall.
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