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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Nidalee vs. Taric counter stats that can help you understand the differences between these two champions. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Taric. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Taric. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually fairs equally well when playing against Taric, with a 50.7% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes an ok counter for Taric.
While Nidalee does have a higher winrate than Taric, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Taricas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Taric. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Taric matchups, Nidalee is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a decent counter for Taric. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Taric.
To truly master Nidalee to counter Taric during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Taric. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Taric build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Hextech Rocketbelt. When Nidalee bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better vs Taric than with most other typical builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 50.7% battling Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Taric as Nidalee, Nidalee players 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Taric battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.7% winrate overall.
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