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.
After using the more powerful, Awakened version of an ability, Udyr cannot Awaken other abilities for some time.
Udyr has limited ranged options, try to keep distance.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some vital Nidalee vs. Udyr matchup statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Udyr’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Udyr..
Nidalee usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Udyr. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Udyr, with a 44.0% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a poor counter to Udyr.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Udyr, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Udyras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Udyr. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Udyr matchups, Udyr is the better champ 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 to Udyr. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Nidalee against Udyr.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Udyr during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average picks up less CS as Udyr. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need 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 a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Nidalee versus Udyr build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Udyr than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 44.0% battling Udyr with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Udyr as Nidalee, Nidalee players 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 combinations players picked for Nidalee vs Udyr counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 44.0% winrate overall.
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