Consume allows Nunu to stay in a lane against ranged opponents.
You can choose to interrupt Absolute Zero early for partial damage if an opponent is about to run out of range.
It's often beneficial to delay the casting of Absolute Zero until the initial round of disables are used. Try to hang back before rushing into a team fight.
Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Nunu & Willump vs. Nidalee counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the two. As an example, Nunu & Willump’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nunu & Willump may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Nunu & Willump normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nunu & Willump usually wins when playing against Nidalee, with a 53.1% win rate. Therefore, Nunu & Willump makes a great counter for Nidalee.
While Nunu & Willump does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when facing one another, Nunu & Willump also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Nunu & Willump into Nidalee.
Additionally, Nunu & Willump also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nunu & Willump vs Nidalee matchups, Nunu & Willump is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nunu & Willump is a great counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nunu & Willump against Nidalee.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nunu & Willump to counter Nidalee during both the laning 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 listen to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nunu & Willump most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nunu & Willump versus Nidalee build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nunu & Willump combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs Nidalee than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nunu & Willump had an average winrate of 53.1% when countering Nidalee with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Nidalee as Nunu & Willump, Nunu & Willump players should use the Dark Harvest, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Celerity, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Nunu & Willump vs Nidalee clashes, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 53.1% winrate overall.
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