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 fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Nidalee versus Ivern matchup statistics that can help us realize the differences between these two champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ivern’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Ivern. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Nidalee normally has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ivern. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Ivern, with a 44.7% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Ivern.
While Nidalee does have a much lower winrate compared to Ivern, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Ivernas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Ivern matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter to Ivern. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Ivern.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Ivern during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often gets more CS compared to Ivern. Champions who on average don't get much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions 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, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Ivern build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better countering Ivern than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 44.7% when countering Ivern with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Ivern as Nidalee, you should take 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 builds we have analyed for Nidalee vs Ivern matchups, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 44.7% winrate overall.
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