Primal Nidalee Defender

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 9 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 9.0 on average.

Roll

Level 9 around 5-1: about 20 rolls (40 gold) to 2-star Nidalee; about 30 if three copies of each are on other boards. model

Contested?

Others holding Nidalee: nobody else: #5.61 · 1 other: #5.64 · 2+ others: #5.80

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 9.0

Games end

Lv 8 54% · Lv 9 34% · Lv 10 8%

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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.

4Lillia★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmogs Armor
• Protector's Vow

4Nidalee★★

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

carry

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• Sivir

3Diana★★

3Vi★★

2Shen★★

1Akali★★

4Amumuflex

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• Rakan

4Apheliosflex

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4, each with what it added and sold since the level above and the traits it has live (hover one for what it does). Level 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (1,106 games). Riot’s match data keeps only that last board, so the levels below are planned by one rule from this comp’s own units and traits and Riot’s shop odds, and marked plan — how the rule works.

Lv 4plan32Nidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 5planAdded322Nidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 6planAdded322Nidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 7planAdded4222Nidalee’s items on Varus

Lv 854%AddedSold3222222

Lv 934%AddedSold1332222222

Lv 108%Added133322222221

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

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 8.1 · stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 9.0

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Nidalee, over 383 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	#5.47	-0.22	359
Nidalee	Spear of Shojin	#5.65	-0.04	248
Nidalee	Sterak's Gage	#5.03	-0.65	231

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. #5Angora#OCEDChallenger · 1,498 LP · level 9 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-17

Variations

Cores close enough to this one to be the same comp. Each line is what that version plays instead, how it placed and the games behind it; all of them are counted in the numbers above.

…and 2 smaller versions, 51 games between them. All of them are already counted in the numbers above; they are left off because no one of them is played often enough to plan around.

Traits

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

Adaptor2next 3Defender2next 4Inferno2next 3Primal2next 4Ravager2next 4Fae1next 2Juggernaut1next 2Lunar1next 2Vanguard1next 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 6 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 4.88 here, against 5.54 at Lunar 2 (658 boards)

  Sun and MoonSun and Moon+

• Primal 4 averages 4.59 here, against 5.80 at Primal 2 (978 boards)

  Beast WithinBeast Within+

• Fae 4 averages 4.37 here, against 5.73 at Fae 2 (450 boards)

  Embiggen

By ruleSuits this carry Nidalee is built for attack damage here (709 boards)

Baron's LairCoronationDeadlier BladesHold the LineSoul AwakeningCybernetic ImplantsEarly LearningsNO 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 8.47 (1106)

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 (709 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.