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.
Dark Matter deals very high damage, but it can be avoided. Pay attention to the sound and visual indicator to be aware of when and where the spell will land.
Veigar's ultimate deals increased damage based on your missing health.
Event Horizon only stuns units on the edge. If you're inside the spell, you can still move and attack.
The stats shown here underscore several critical Nidalee versus Veigar matchup stats that may help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Veigar’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Veigar..
Nidalee usually has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. On average, she receives more damage than Veigar. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Veigar, with a 46.1% win rate. As a result, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Veigar.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate than Veigar, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Veigaras her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Nidalee has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Veigar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Veigar matchups, Veigar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a trash counter for Veigar. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Veigar.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee in order to counter Veigar during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually gets a lot less CS as Veigar. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Nidalee versus Veigar build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Veigar than with many other common builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Veigar with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Veigar 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 players chose for Nidalee vs Veigar matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 46.1% winrate overall.
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