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.
Be careful when casting immobilizing disables on Fiora. If her Riposte is available, she can turn their power against you.
Duelist's Dance shows you where Fiora will try to attack from, so be ready to punish her when she tries.
The stats shown on this page show some important Nidalee versus Fiora matchup statistics that can help us explain the differences between this pair of champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Fiora’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Fiora..
Nidalee normally has a similar longest killing spree as her opponent does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Fiora. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Fiora, with a 46.4% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Fiora.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Fiora, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Fioraas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Fiora. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Fiora matchups, Fiora is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Fiora. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Fiora.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee in order to counter Fiora during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often picks up a lot less CS as Fiora. Champions who typically don't get many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Fiora build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs. Fiora than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 46.4% when countering Fiora with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Fiora 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. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nidalee vs Fiora face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Fiora as Nidalee are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to a particular skill level, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.