Grand Challenge allows Fiora to take down even the most durable opponents and then recover if successful, so do not hesitate to attack the enemy's front line.
Thanks to Duelist's Dance, Fiora excels at quick trades. Use the Move Speed boost from striking a Vital to escape unscathed or set up for the next one.
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 shown here emphasize several valuable Fiora versus Nidalee matchup stats that may help you realize the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Fiora’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nidalee’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Fiora may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Nidalee..
Fiora usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Fiora usually wins when trying to fight Nidalee, with a 53.6% win rate. Therefore, Fiora makes a great counter to Nidalee.
While Fiora does have a higher win rate compared to Nidalee, when they face off with one another, Fiora also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less time consuming character to learn. You should be be fine when picking Fiora into Nidalee.
Furthermore, Fiora also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nidalee. 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 Fiora vs Nidalee matchups, Fiora is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Fiora is a great counter to Nidalee. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Fiora against Nidalee.
If you would like to truly master Fiora to counter Nidalee during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Fiora on average accumulates much more CS compared to Nidalee. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Fiora versus Nidalee build consist of Ravenous Hydra, Trinity Force, and Hullbreaker. When Fiora included at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Nidalee than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Fiora had an average winrate of 53.6% when countering Nidalee with these items in her kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Nidalee as Fiora, Fiora players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Fiora vs Nidalee matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.6% win rate overall.
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