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 some significant Rell vs. Nidalee counter stats that may help us interpret the differences between the two. Rell’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Rell may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nidalee. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Rell often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes less damage than Nidalee. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Rell usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 53.4% win rate. Therefore, Rell makes a great counter for Nidalee.
While Rell does have a higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Rell also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Rell into Nidalee.
Additionally, Rell also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Rell vs Nidalee matchups, Rell is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Rell is a great counter for Nidalee. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Rell against Nidalee.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Rell to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Rell on average racks up a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Rell versus Nidalee build include Trailblazer, Zeke's Convergence, and Celestial Opposition. When Rell bought at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Nidalee than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Rell boasted an average winrate of 53.4% when countering Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Nidalee as Rell, Rell players should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players picked for Rell vs Nidalee matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.4% win rate overall.
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