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.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several significant Fiddlesticks against Nidalee counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Fiddlesticks’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Fiddlesticks may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nidalee..
Fiddlesticks normally has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Fiddlesticks usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 53.5% win rate. Thus, Fiddlesticks makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Fiddlesticks does have a higher win rate than Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Fiddlesticks also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Fiddlesticks into Nidaleeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Fiddlesticks also has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Fiddlesticks vs Nidalee matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Fiddlesticks is a great counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Fiddlesticks against Nidalee.
To truly master Fiddlesticks to counter Nidalee during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiddlesticks most often accumulates a similar amount of CS as Nidalee. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Fiddlesticks versus Nidalee build include Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Fiddlesticks used at least these three items in his build, he did much better versus Nidalee than with many other common item sets. In fact, Fiddlesticks boasted an average win rate of 53.5% battling Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Nidalee as Fiddlesticks, you should use the First Strike, Triple Tonic, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Fiddlesticks vs Nidalee clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.5% winrate overall.
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