Nidalee vs Orianna
How to Beat Orianna as Nidalee
based on 363 Nidalee vs Orianna matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Orianna Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Orianna Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Orianna as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Orianna
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.
Advice to Win Against Orianna
Orianna can only affect the area the Ball is around. Use this to your advantage.
Watch out for Orianna's Ball returning to her due to leashing. This may cause some unexpected situations.
Nidalee vs Orianna Counter Stats
How to Counter Orianna with Nidalee in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several vital Nidalee vs. Orianna counter statistics that can help us explain the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Orianna’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Orianna..
Nidalee often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she takes more damage than Orianna. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nidalee and Orianna
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Orianna?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually wins when playing against Orianna, with a 51.2% win rate. Thus, Nidalee makes a good counter for Orianna.
While Nidalee does have a higher winrate than Orianna, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Oriannaas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Orianna. 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 Orianna matchups, Nidalee is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a decent counter to Orianna. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Nidalee against Orianna.
Other Champion Matchups Against Nidalee
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How We Calculated Our Nidalee vs Orianna Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Orianna during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee most often accumulates a lot less CS as Orianna. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities 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 situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Nidalee versus Orianna build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better against Orianna than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Orianna with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Orianna 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 that we analyzed for Nidalee vs Orianna battles, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
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