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Nidalee Build

Mid Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 743 gamesUpdated

42.7%win rate0.0%pick1.4%ban

Who counters Nidalee

How to build Nidalee

Spellslinger's Shoes→Lich Bane→Shadowflame→Stormsurge

Spellslinger's Shoes → Lich Bane → Shadowflame → Stormsurge

43.6% win rate 9% of games 39 games
RunesDominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure HunterSorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking26% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite84%
Skills
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Javelin Toss / Takedown
39101213
Bushwhack / Pounce
114151718
Primal Surge / Swipe
24578
Aspect Of The Cougar
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Nidalee build →
42.7%win rate
Patch 26.20: 47.6% over 1,480 gamesPatch 26.21: 42.7% over 743 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
52.4%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
1.4%ban rate
▼ Downwas Tier 3 last patch
34.1%under 22 min
47.4%over 32 min

Nidalee Mid gets better as the elo rises. 42.7% across Silver and above, and 52.4% at Emerald and up. It rewards players who know the matchup.

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitM NidaleevsSylas champion portraitM Sylas
3 / 3 / 7

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Lich Bane→Stormsurge

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Win 25–30m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitM NidaleevsGalio champion portraitM Galio
9 / 5 / 15

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Lich Bane→Stormsurge→Zhonya's Hourglass→Liandry's Torment

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WEQEEREQEQRQQWWR
Win 20–25m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitM NidaleevsCaitlyn champion portraitM Caitlyn
6 / 1 / 2

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Stormsurge

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

WEQEEREQEQRQQWW

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 44.6% win rate · 26% of games · 139 games
DominationDark HarvestSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 40.0% win rate · 20% of games · 105 games
DominationElectrocuteSudden ImpactGrisly MementosTreasure Hunter
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite84%44.2%652 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport8%44.1%59 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes81%Chainlaced Crushers6%Boots6%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 46.9% win rate

Nidalee build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

Whole-build counts start over with every patch, and Nidalee Mid is at 761 games so far this patch. The full build shows up here at 300.

Every slot, boots and full build for Nidalee →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 761 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
79% · 47.2% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
6% · 38.1% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 22.2% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
4% · 29.4% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Lich Bane+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 25.7% win rate · 35 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 43.8% win rate · 32 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Nidalee against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Nidalee's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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