Nami vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Nami
based on 773 Nami vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nami vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Nami vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Nami
Tips for Playing as Nami against Nidalee
Nami's ultimate can come in very handy for initiating on enemies who are far away.
Using Ebb and Flow during an engagement with enemy champions will help sway the battle in your favor.
Aqua Prison has a long cooldown, make sure to use it at the right moment.
Advice to Win Against Nidalee
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.
Nami vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Nami in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several important Nami against Nidalee counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between these two champions. Nami’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nami may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nidalee. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Nami typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nami and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Nami or Nidalee?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nami usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 52.7% win rate. Thus, Nami makes a good counter for Nidalee.
While Nami does have a higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Nami also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Nami into Nidalee.
Additionally, Nami has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nami vs Nidalee matchups, Nami is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nami is an above average counter to Nidalee. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nami against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nami to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nami on average picks up less CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Nami versus Nidalee build consist of Dream Maker, Imperial Mandate, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Nami combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Nidalee than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nami boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when playing against Nidalee with this build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nidalee as Nami, Nami players should take the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Nami vs Nidalee LoL games, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.7% win rate overall.
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