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.
Ezreal is a very fragile champion so take the fight to him.
Ezreal is completely skill shot based, so make sure to keep minions in between you.
Mystic Shot applies on-hit effects including the Crest of Cinders.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Nidalee against Ezreal counter statistics that may help you realize the differences between the pair. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ezreal’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ezreal..
Nidalee often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ezreal. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Ezreal, with a 48.5% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Ezreal.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Ezreal, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nidalee into Ezrealas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ezreal. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Ezreal matchups, Ezreal is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter to Ezreal. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Ezreal.
To truly master Nidalee in order to counter Ezreal during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average picks up a lot less CS as Ezreal. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nidalee versus Ezreal build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better countering Ezreal than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 48.5% when countering Ezreal with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Ezreal as Nidalee, Nidalee players should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Ezreal counter picks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.5% winrate overall.
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