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.
When Taliyah casts Unraveled Earth in the lane, be on the lookout for Seismic Shove. If she throws you into her minefield, the throws and stones will break your bones.
Taliyah's Threaded Volley is locked into a direction. If she's throwing rocks at you, dodge to the side!
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some significant Nidalee against Taliyah matchup statistics that may help us realize the distinctions between this pair of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taliyah’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Taliyah..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Taliyah. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Taliyah, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Taliyah.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Taliyah, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Taliyahas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taliyah. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Taliyah matchups, Taliyah is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Taliyah. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Taliyah.
To truly master Nidalee to counter Taliyah during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically picks up less CS as Taliyah. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Taliyah build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better vs Taliyah than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Taliyah with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Taliyah as Nidalee, you 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 sets players used for Nidalee vs Taliyah counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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