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Nidalee Build

Top Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 979 gamesUpdated

44.0%win rate0.0%pick1.4%ban

Who counters Nidalee

How to build Nidalee

Plated Steelcaps→Trinity Force→Spear of Shojin→Hullbreaker

Plated Steelcaps → Trinity Force → Spear of Shojin → Hullbreaker

53.2% win rate 12% of games 62 games
RunesPrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteCoup de GraceSorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking8% of games
SpellsFlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%
Skills
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Javelin Toss / Takedown
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Bushwhack / Pounce
114151718
Primal Surge / Swipe
24578
Aspect Of The Cougar
61116
StartDoran's BladeHealth PotionDoran's Blade, Health Potion
Full Nidalee build →
44.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 41.0% over 2,474 gamesPatch 26.21: 44.0% over 979 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
45.7%at Emerald+
0.0%pick rate
1.4%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
47.7%under 22 min
43.3%over 32 min

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.

Loss 40–45m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitT NidaleevsSejuani champion portraitT Sejuani
10 / 4 / 12

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Trinity Force→Riftmaker→Randuin's Omen→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitT NidaleevsYone champion portraitT Yone
7 / 5 / 4

Build

Plated Steelcaps|Trinity Force→Riftmaker→Spirit Visage

Spells & runes

IgniteFlash|

Skills

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Loss 20–25m
MASTER+
Nidalee champion portraitT NidaleevsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
4 / 7 / 3

Build

Ionian Boots of Lucidity|Lich Bane→Hextech Gunblade

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

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Runes

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

Most popular 42.9% win rate · 8% of games · 42 games
PrecisionConquerorTriumphLegend: HasteCoup de Grace
SorceryTranscendenceWaterwalking
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 54.8% win rate · 8% of games · 42 games
ResolveGrasp of the UndyingDemolishBone PlatingOvergrowth
DominationSudden ImpactTreasure Hunter
Shards Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite68%44.9%683 games
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport20%40.1%202 games

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

Boots
Plated Steelcaps46%Mercury's Treads16%Boots of Swiftness13%
Plated Steelcaps most often · 43.4% 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 Top is at 975 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 · 975 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Plated SteelcapsPlated Steelcaps
45% · 44.0% win rate
Mercury's TreadsMercury's Treads
16% · 45.6% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
13% · 43.2% win rate
Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
12% · 52.5% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
5% · 46.2% win rate
BootsBoots
5% · 29.5% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Trinity Force+Plated Steelcaps5% of games · 30.2% win rate · 53 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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