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.
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several vital Nidalee against Gwen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Gwen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Gwen..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Gwen. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Gwen, with a 46.9% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Gwen.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Gwen, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Gwenas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Gwen matchups, Gwen is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Gwen. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Gwen.
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Gwen. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Gwen build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Gwen than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 46.9% when playing against Gwen with this counter build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Gwen as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nidalee vs Gwen face-offs, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Gwen as Nidalee are given for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.