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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some strategic Nidalee against Rell counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rell’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Rell. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes more damage than Rell. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Rell, with a 46.6% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Rell.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Rell, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Rellas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Rell. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Rell matchups, Rell is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Rell. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Rell.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Rell during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Rell. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills often 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Nidalee versus Rell build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Rell than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 46.6% battling Rell with these items in her kit.
To have the best probability of beating Rell 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 builds we have analyed for Nidalee vs Rell counterpicks, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 46.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Rell as Nidalee are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.