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.
The stats shown on this page clarify some strategic Nidalee versus Fiddlesticks matchup stats that may help us realize the differences between the pair. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Fiddlesticks’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Fiddlesticks..
Nidalee typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Fiddlesticks. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Fiddlesticks, with a 46.5% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Fiddlesticks.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Fiddlesticks, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Fiddlesticksas her relative depth means that 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 Fiddlesticks. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Fiddlesticks matchups, Fiddlesticks is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Fiddlesticks. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Fiddlesticks.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Fiddlesticks during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often picks up a similar amount of CS as Fiddlesticks. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Nidalee versus Fiddlesticks build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Fiddlesticks than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 46.5% when playing against Fiddlesticks with this build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Fiddlesticks 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. Of all the runes we have analyed for Nidalee vs Fiddlesticks face-offs, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.5% win rate overall.
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