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.
Vi cannot be stopped while using her ult. Remember to save your displacement effects until after she's done charging.
A fully charged Vault breaker deals double damage. If you see Vi start to charge you should back off or try to dodge it.
Vi will shred your Armor and gain Attack Speed if she manages to hit you three times in a row. Try not to engage in extended brawls with her.
The stats shown here underscore some critical Nidalee against Vi counter stats that can help you realize the differences between the two. Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Vi’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Vi..
Nidalee typically has a similar longest kill spree as her foe does. Typically, she takes a similar amount of damage to Vi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Vi, with a 42.4% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter to Vi.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Vi, when on opposite teams, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Nidalee into Vias her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Vi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Vi matchups, Vi is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter for Vi. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Vi.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Vi during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee on average racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Vi. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to have in your Nidalee versus Vi build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee combined at least these three items in her build, she performed much better when fighting Vi than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 42.4% when countering Vi with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Vi 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. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nidalee vs Vi matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 42.4% winrate overall.
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