Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
The stats shown on this page emphasize some influential Volibear against Nidalee matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences between the two. As an example, Volibear’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Nidalee’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Volibear may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Nidalee..
Volibear typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Nidalee. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Volibear usually fairs equally well when facing off against Nidalee, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Volibear makes an ok counter for Nidalee.
While Volibear does have a higher winrate compared to Nidalee, when on opposite teams, Volibear also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Volibear into Nidalee.
Moreover, Volibear also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nidalee. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Volibear vs Nidalee matchups, Volibear is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Volibear is a decent counter for Nidalee. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Volibear against Nidalee.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Volibear in order to counter Nidalee 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 mind the build and stats displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Volibear most often accumulates more CS as Nidalee. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Volibear versus Nidalee build consist of Nashor's Tooth, Hullbreaker, and Riftmaker. When Volibear incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Nidalee than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Volibear had an average win rate of 50.8% when playing against Nidalee with this counter build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Nidalee as Volibear, Volibear players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Demolish, and Revitalize runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes players chose for Volibear vs Nidalee face-offs, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 50.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nidalee as Volibear are shown for all skill levels combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu at the top of this page.