Primal Nidalee

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.7 on average.

Play it when

you hold B.F. Sword and Giant's Belt, and nobody else is on Nidalee (it placed #5.24 then, #5.91 against two or more)

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 · 39 games · #5.51

Components

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

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.0 · stage 5: 8.2 · stage 6: 8.7

Games end

Lv 7 5% · Lv 8 65% · Lv 9 27%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.2 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.61 across every comp; this one averages 5.70, 1.09 worse. Level is partly how a game went and partly the plan, so this is context, not a grade.

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Final board

The whole board at level 8, where most of its games end. A dashed slot is one its games fill differently; an open one, no unit holds on a quarter of them. A gold slot is the combination that placed best there. Under a unit, or: who its games play there instead.

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Positions are our rule, by attack range: melee in front, ranged behind, the most-itemed carries in the back corners. Riot's match data has none. Dashed level buttons are planned, the rest measured; the gold one adds the champion that placed best there.

4Nidalee★★

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

carry

4Sentinel★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Protector's Vow
• Warmog's Armor

or

• Camille

3Diana★★

or

• Rakan
• Lillia

3Kog'Maw★★

3Vi★★

or

• Caitlyn
• Cassiopeia

4Apheliosbest

or

• Elisemost played

4Sivirflex

or

• Morgana

1Varusbest

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 7 up it is measured over 2,662 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.

Lv 4plan122Nidalee’s items on Kog'Maw

Lv 5planAdded122Nidalee’s items on Kog'Maw

Lv 6planAdded12222Nidalee’s items on Kog'Maw

Lv 75%AddedSold13322

Lv 865%AddedSold1322222Optionsall: #6.47 · 1% won · 103 gamesAphelios + Varus#6.290% won · 38Amumu + Varus#6.540% won · 39

Lv 927%AddedSold143322

Lv 10bestAdded1433222The 10th championall: #2.03 · 32% won · 5,960 gamesAshe#1.9435% won · 244Lux#1.9634% won · 1.7kTaric#1.9735% won · 1.2kAphelios#2.0331% won · 5.6k · most played

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, over 785 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 at all ranks over the last 14 days.

Champion	Item	Avg Place	vs comp	Games
Nidalee	Infinity Edge	#5.68	+0.07	934
Nidalee	Sterak's Gage	#5.63	+0.01	747
Nidalee	Spear of Shojin	#5.83	+0.21	702

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	#5.51	39

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

Variations

Other boards this comp ends on, over the last 14 days. Each row is a version’s usual final board and what it plays instead of this comp’s own board at that level.

Lv 86.56avg place270 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 93.92avg place239 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.11avg place132 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.08avg place131 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.24avg place129 gamesPlaysInstead of

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.

• Coven 5 averages 5.85 here, against 6.45 at Coven 4 (189 boards)

  Coven AcolyteDark Ritual

• Lunar 3 averages 5.37 here, against 5.80 at Lunar 2 (984 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Primal 4 averages 5.12 here, against 5.83 at Primal 2 (2350 boards)

  Beast WithinBeast Within+

By ruleSuits this carry Nidalee is built for attack damage here (1954 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsDouble TroubleEarly LearningsEmbiggenNO SCOUT NO PIVOTTons of Stats!Focused Fire

1 more

Stand United

Works against it: Wrong damage type (2)

By ruleWrong damage type Nidalee is built for attack damage here (1954 boards)

Deadlier CapsSeraphim'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.

More about this comp

At the top of the ladder

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

1. #1Demacian Raptor#JAZZChallenger · EUNE · 1,752 LP · level 9 · 2026-10-01
2. #3Demacian Raptor#JAZZChallenger · EUNE · 1,752 LP · level 9 · out at 5-6 · 2026-10-02
3. #6Sacred Norris#HeheChallenger · EUNE · 2,045 LP · level 8 · out at 5-2 · 2026-10-08
4. #6SSC Mesut#1802Challenger · VN · 1,502 LP · level 8 · out at 5-3 · 2026-09-30

Traits

Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.

Caustic1Primal3next 4Adaptor2next 3Invoker2next 3Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Vanguard2next 4

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.

Trait	Placement at each tier
Adaptor	25.851,69434.5817643.93196
Invoker	25.791,43535.2752845.18124
Lunar	25.8088435.37100
Primal	25.831,82345.12527
Vanguard	25.881,92345.33473

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.

Bracket	Games	Avg Place	Top 4 %	Win %
Diamond+	484	#5.70	28.5%	5.2%
All ranks	785	#5.62	30.2%	4.3%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 5 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

5.498

5.549

5.7810

5.8111

5.3812

Also played

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

Comp	Tier	Shared units	Avg Place	Games
Primal Aphelios & Nidalee	A	5	#4.33	146,372
Primal Nidalee Juggernaut	—	4	#5.18	10,291
Primal Nidalee & Master Yi Adaptor	—	4	#3.39	132
Adaptor Aphelios & Nidalee	—	4	#4.97	125
Primal Nidalee & Aphelios Vanguard Brawler	—	4	#4.63	63
Juggernaut Sivir Inferno	—	4	#5.67	60