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.
Lulu excels when opponents heavily commit. Don't give her this chance! Use heavy harass tactics instead to force Lulu and her partner out of lane.
The shots from Lulu's faerie can be intercepted - hide behind your minions to avoid the additional Faerie attacks.
The stats shown on this page clarify several significant Nidalee against Lulu counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Lulu’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Lulu. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Typically, she takes more damage than Lulu. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when trying to fight Lulu, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Lulu.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate than Lulu, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Luluas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Lulu. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Lulu matchups, Lulu is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Lulu. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Lulu.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Lulu during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee often accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Lulu. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Lulu build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better versus Lulu than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Lulu with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Lulu 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. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Nidalee vs Lulu LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Lulu as Nidalee are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.