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.
Try to stay away from walls. Ornn is much less strong if he cannot stun you.
Attack Ornn to keep him from creating items in lane.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some valuable Nidalee against Ornn matchup statistics that can help you explain the differences between this pair of champs. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ornn’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Ornn. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Nidalee typically has a much larger longest kill spree than her foe does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Ornn. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Ornn, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Ornn.
While Nidalee does have a lower winrate compared to Ornn, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to learn. You should be careful when picking Nidalee into Ornnas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ornn. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Ornn matchups, Ornn is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nidalee is a somewhat poor counter for Ornn. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Ornn.
To learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Ornn during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a lot less CS compared to Ornn. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Ornn build consist of Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs. Ornn than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average win rate of 48.7% when playing against Ornn with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Ornn as Nidalee, Nidalee players should use 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 combinations players chose for Nidalee vs Ornn fights, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.7% winrate overall.
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