Nidalee vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Nidalee
based on 438 Nidalee vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Azir
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.
Advice to Win Against Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Nidalee vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here show several important Nidalee against Azir counter stats that can help you understand the differences and similarities between these two champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Azir..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest killing spree as her foe does. Commonly, she receives more damage than Azir. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Azir
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Azir?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Azir, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Azir.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Azir, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a lower learning curve that makes her a less challenging champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Aziras her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter to Azir. Make sure you focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Azir during both the early game 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 will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically racks up a lot less CS compared to Azir. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Nidalee versus Azir build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Azir than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Azir with this counter build.
To have the best probability of crushing Azir 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. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Azir counterpicks, this sequence of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.4% win rate overall.
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