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.
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Try to gank Anivia when she's laning. With multiple people, it is easier to ensure that her egg dies.
If you're playing a ranged champion, stay far enough away from Anivia so you can dodge Flash Frost more easily.
Try to fight Anivia in the lanes. In the jungle she can block pathways with lower ranks of Crystallize.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show some critical Nidalee versus Anivia matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Anivia’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Anivia..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Anivia. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Anivia, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Anivia.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Anivia, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champ to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Aniviaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Anivia. 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Anivia matchups, Anivia is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a trash counter to Anivia. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Anivia.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Anivia during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often racks up a lot less CS relative to Anivia. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling 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 exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Anivia build consist of Night Harvester, Lich Bane, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Anivia than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Anivia with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Anivia as Nidalee, Nidalee players should take the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Anivia counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
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