Nidalee vs Nami
How to Beat Nami as Nidalee
based on 773 Nidalee vs Nami matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Nami Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Nami Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nami as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Nami
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.
Advice to Win Against Nami
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
Nidalee vs Nami Counter Stats
How to Counter Nami with Nidalee in LoL
The stats provided here feature several critical Nidalee versus Nami counter statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nami. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Nami. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Nami
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Nami?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Nami, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Nami.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Nami, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Namias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Nami matchups, Nami is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a bad counter to Nami. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Nami.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Nami during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually gets more CS relative to Nami. Champions who on average don't take 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Nami build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better versus Nami than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Nami with this build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Nami as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 Nami fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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