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.
Stay behind minions to make Charm difficult to land, this will reduce Ahri's damage potential significantly.
Ahri's survivability is dramatically reduced when her Ultimate, Spirit Rush, is down.
The stats shown on this page highlight several strategic Nidalee against Ahri counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between this set of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ahri’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Ahri..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Typically, she receives more damage than Ahri. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Ahri, with a 48.5% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Ahri.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Ahri, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nidalee into Ahrias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ahri. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Ahri matchups, Ahri is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter to Ahri. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Ahri.
To truly master Nidalee to counter Ahri during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average picks up a lot less CS as Ahri. Champs who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Ahri build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better countering Ahri than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Ahri with this counter build.
To have the highest probability of beating Ahri as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Nidalee vs Ahri clashes, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.5% win rate overall.
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