Ahri vs Nidalee
How to Beat Nidalee as Ahri
based on 745 Ahri vs Nidalee matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ahri vs Nidalee Matchup Summary
Best Ahri vs Nidalee Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Nidalee as Ahri
Tips for Playing as Ahri against Nidalee
Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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.
Ahri vs Nidalee Counter Stats
How to Counter Nidalee with Ahri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some strategic Ahri against Nidalee matchup stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Ahri usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. On average, she receives less damage than Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ahri and Nidalee
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Who is Better, Ahri or Nidalee?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ahri usually wins when facing off against Nidalee, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Ahri makes a good counter for Nidalee.
While Ahri does have a higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when facing one another, Ahri also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Nidalee.
Additionally, Ahri has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Nidalee matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ahri is a decent counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ahri against Nidalee.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ahri in order 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 listen to the build and stats presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often accumulates much more CS relative to Nidalee. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ahri versus Nidalee build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Nidalee than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ahri boasted an average winrate of 51.5% when playing against Nidalee with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Nidalee as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Ahri vs Nidalee face-offs, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.5% winrate overall.
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