Primal Nidalee & Aphelios Vanguard

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average.

Play it when

you hold B.F. Sword and Giant's Belt

Roll

Level 8 around 4-2: about 22 rolls (44 gold) to 2-star Nidalee; about 33 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Build

Nidalee Infinity Edge, Spear of Shojin, Sterak's Gage · 21 games · #4.52

Components

B.F. Sword ×3 · Giant's Belt · Sparring Gloves · Tear of the Goddess

Contested?

Others holding Nidalee / Aphelios: 1 other: #5.14 · 2+ others: #5.45

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 8.8

Games end

Lv 8 58% · Lv 9 35% · Lv 10 5%

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end. The core — the units on most of this family’s boards — at the star level and with the items they were measured holding; then the flex slots, dashed, with the unit its boards put there most. A slot no unit holds on a quarter of its boards is open. Under a unit, or: the champions its boards play in that slot instead, measured on its level-8 boards this patch.

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Riot's match data records no positions, so this board is placed by rule from each champion's attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, and the carries holding the most items in the back corners. The level buttons show the board at each level: the dashed ones are planned by rule (see How it’s played), the rest measured.

4Amumu★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Spirit Visage

4Aphelios★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Kraken's Fury
• Infinity Edge

carry

4Nidalee★★

• Infinity Edge
• Sterak's Gage
• Spear of Shojin

carry

4Sivir★★

• Infinity Edge
• Last Whisper
• Spear of Shojin

3Diana★★

1Rakan★★

3Kog'Mawflex

or

• Vi

1Varusflex

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 831 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 5planAdded22222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 6planAdded1222222Aphelios’s items on XayahNidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 7planAdded13222222Nidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 858%AddedSold12222222

Lv 935%Added122222222

Not a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Nidalee or Aphelios, over 384 games of this patch. We keep all eight boards of every game, so this is measured, not guessed; part of the gap is the lobby itself, so read it as how it placed, not only why.

Items

The three items this comp’s carry was measured holding most often, the placement of the boards it held them on, and the difference against the comp’s own average. Every board of the family, all ranks.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Nidalee	Infinity Edge	#4.96	-0.25	282
Nidalee	Sterak's Gage	#4.74	-0.47	280
Nidalee	Spear of Shojin	#4.85	-0.35	205

Full builds

The carries’ most played three-item builds this patch, with the placement of the games they were built in.

Champion	Build	Avg Place	Games
Nidalee	Infinity EdgeSpear of ShojinSterak's Gage	#4.52	21

Components to hold B.F. Sword ×3, Giant's Belt, Sparring Gloves, Tear of the Goddess

At the top of the ladder

The newest boards of this comp from the players on our leaderboard, with where they placed. A name opens that player’s games, board and items included.

1. #5Kojnid#AUTChallenger · EUW · 1,491 LP · level 8 · out at 5-5 · 2026-09-29

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level; all of them count in the numbers above.

Lv 95.00avg place128 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 94.12avg place86 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.40avg place57 gamesPlaysInstead of

Traits

Active on the core board, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Primal2next 4Vanguard2next 4Adaptor1next 2Fae1next 2Hunter1next 2Inferno1next 2Rapidfire1next 2Ravager1next 2

What each tier of this comp’s own traits was worth on its boards. The small number under each average is how many boards sat at that tier.

By bracket

Diamond, Master, Grandmaster and Challenger against the whole sample. Each board carries the tier of its own player where the sampler held it.

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 7 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

Also played

Families sharing at least 4 core units with this one — the same board taken a different way.

Augments that fit

What each augment grants, set against what this comp measured: the same rule the overlay uses when it reads the three on offer. A measured line is the comp’s own placement at a trait level; a line by rule is a fact about the comp, such as the damage its carry is built for.

MeasuredThe comp’s own placement at a trait’s levels, beside the augments that give the trait.

• Lunar 3 averages 4.97 here, against 5.01 at Lunar 2 (613 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Primal 4 averages 4.28 here, against 5.04 at Primal 2 (672 boards)

  Beast WithinBeast Within+

• Rapidfire 3 averages 4.31 here, against 4.92 at Rapidfire 2 (551 boards)

  U.R.F

By ruleSuits this carry Nidalee is built for attack damage here (535 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused FireStand United

Works against it: Not a reroll comp (14), Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleNot a reroll comp it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.45 (831)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+Crafted Crafting

2 more

Patience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleWrong damage type Nidalee is built for attack damage here (535 boards)

Deadlier CapsDark RitualSeraphim's Staff

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so no augment has a number of its own on this page or anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.