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.
If Nautilus uses Riptide right next to you, hold in place until the ripple effect finishes before running. Running early will run straight into the secondary explosions, causing you to take additional damage and slow.
While Nautilus is shielded, he is capable of dealing large amounts of area of effect damage with his basic attacks - consider taking down the shield if you have time.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some strategic Nidalee against Nautilus counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the two. For instance, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nautilus’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Nautilus. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Nidalee often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Nautilus. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Nautilus, with a 44.0% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter for Nautilus.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Nautilus, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more difficult champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Nautilusas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash 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 Nautilus. This 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 in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Nautilus matchups, Nautilus is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Nautilus. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Nautilus.
To truly master Nidalee to counter Nautilus during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Nautilus. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Nidalee versus Nautilus build include Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three items in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Nautilus than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 44.0% when playing against Nautilus with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of defeating Nautilus 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. Of all the rune sets players picked for Nidalee vs Nautilus clashes, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 44.0% win rate overall.
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