Nidalee vs Naafiri
How to Beat Naafiri as Nidalee
based on 333 Nidalee vs Naafiri matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Naafiri Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Naafiri Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Naafiri as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Naafiri
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.
Nidalee vs Naafiri Counter Stats
How to Counter Naafiri with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several significant Nidalee vs. Naafiri counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between this set of champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Naafiri’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Naafiri..
Nidalee usually has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her foe does. Typically, she receives more damage than Naafiri. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Naafiri
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Naafiri?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Naafiri, with a 44.1% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Naafiri.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Naafiri, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Naafirias 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 Naafiri. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Naafiri matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Naafiri. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Naafiri.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Naafiri during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Naafiri. Champs who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Nidalee versus Naafiri build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when facing Naafiri than with most other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.1% when countering Naafiri with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Naafiri as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip 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 we have analyed for Nidalee vs Naafiri face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.1% win rate overall.
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