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.
You can cast Smite on Mist Walkers and the Maiden of the Mist to damage or kill them.
You can attack Dark Procession to break the wall down.
Try to thin out Yorick's minions before you engage him, Mist Walkers will die from a basic attack or a single target spell.
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Nidalee vs. Yorick matchup statistics that can help us distinguish the differences between this set of champs. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Yorick’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Yorick..
Nidalee normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Yorick. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when taking on Yorick, with a 43.9% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Yorick.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate than Yorick, when they face off with one another, Nidalee also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Nidalee into Yorickas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Yorick. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Nidalee vs Yorick matchups, Yorick 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 terribly counter for Yorick. Focus your strategy on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Yorick.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Nidalee to counter Yorick during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you will 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 Yorick. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Yorick build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better when fighting Yorick than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee boasted an average winrate of 43.9% when countering Yorick with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Yorick 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. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Nidalee vs Yorick battles, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 43.9% win rate overall.
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