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.
Warwick's attacks heal him at low health. Save your disables to finish him off.
Warwick's ultimate cast range scales with his Move Speed.
Warwick is empowered versus low health enemies. Manage your health to keep him at bay.
The stats provided here clarify several important Nidalee against Warwick counter statistics that may help us grasp the differences between the two. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Warwick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Warwick..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her counter does. Commonly, she takes less damage than Warwick. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when playing against Warwick, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Warwick.
While Nidalee does have a lower win rate compared to Warwick, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Warwickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Nidalee also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Warwick. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Warwick matchups, Warwick is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Nidalee is a terribly counter to Warwick. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Warwick.
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Warwick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Warwick. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Nidalee versus Warwick build consist of Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Warwick than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 47.1% when playing against Warwick with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Warwick as Nidalee, you 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 combinations we have analyed for Nidalee vs Warwick counters, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Warwick as Nidalee are shown for all ranked divisions. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular division, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.