Naafiri vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Naafiri
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Naafiri vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Nidalee
Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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.
Naafiri vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Naafiri in LoL
The stats provided here feature some strategic Naafiri vs. Nidalee counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Naafiri typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than their enemy does. On average, they takes less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Nidalee?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 55.9% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a fantastic counter for Nidalee.
While Naafiri does have a much higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Naafiri also has a much lower difficulty level that makes them a less time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Naafiri into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Naafiri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often 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 Naafiri vs Nidalee matchups, Naafiri 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.
Naafiri is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Naafiri to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically gets much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Nidalee build include Serylda's Grudge, Profane Hydra, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better countering Nidalee than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 55.9% battling Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Nidalee as Naafiri, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds players chose for Naafiri vs Nidalee fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 55.9% winrate overall.
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