TFT CODEX

Primal Nidalee & Malphite Defender

Fast 8Carried by Nidalee & Malphite

Updated 28 Sep 2026, 10:18 UTC · Patch 18.3

—Tier
—Avg Place
—Top 4 %
—Win %
0.0%Play Rate
—Games

Open in BuilderThe whole final board — the core at the star level it was measured at and with the carry’s items, and its flex picks — standing the way the board above does: by rule, and yours to move.

Nidalee

Game plan

How it’s played
Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.8 on average.
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
Pace
Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.3 · stage 6: 8.8
Games end
Lv 8 56% · Lv 9 41% · Lv 10 3%

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.

The Night Arena: an obsidian TFT board lit in gold
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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.

5Ashe★
  • Spear of Shojin
  • Red Buff
  • Infinity Edge
4Lillia★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Protector's Vow
4Malphite★★
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
  • Warmogs Armor
  • Crownguard
carry
4Nidalee★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Sterak's Gage
  • Hunter Emblem
carry
4Sivir★★
  • Infinity Edge
  • Last Whisper
  • Spear of Shojin
2Shen★★
5Ivernflex
4Amumuflex

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How it’s played

Where this comp’s games end, and its board at every level from 4 — a unit marked + is new since the level above. Level 8 and up are measured: the boards its games ended on, all ranks, the last 14 days (223 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.

856%941%103%
Lv 4planAkaliVarusShenFiddlesticksInferno 3Defender 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on ShenNidalee’s items on Varus
Lv 5planAkaliVarusXayahShenFiddlesticksInferno 3Defender 2Rapidfire 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on ShenNidalee’s items on Xayah
Lv 6planAkaliOrnnVarusXayahShenFiddlesticksInferno 3Defender 3Rapidfire 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on ShenNidalee’s items on Xayah
Lv 7planShenLilliaVarusAkaliFiddlesticksOrnnXayahDefender 4Inferno 3Fae 2Rapidfire 2Flora Fatalis 1Malphite’s items on LilliaNidalee’s items on Xayah
Lv 856%AsheLilliaMalphiteNidaleeSivirShenIvernAmumu− Varus, Akali, Fiddlesticks, Ornn, Xayah
Lv 941%AsheIvernLilliaMalphiteNidaleeSivirShen+2 open− Amumu

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

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

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.

ChampionItemAvg Placevs compGames
NidaleeInfinity Edge#4.55-0.8066
NidaleeSterak's Gage#4.39-0.9649
NidaleeHunter Emblem#4.12-1.2240

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.

AddsLeaves outAvg PlaceGames
LuxIvern, Leona5.5643

Traits

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

Defender2next 4Hunter2next 3Primal2next 4Monolith1Adaptor1next 2Blackthorn1next 2Blossom1next 3Fae1next 2Inferno1next 2

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.

BracketGamesAvg PlaceTop 4 %Win %
Diamond+35#5.6934.3%8.6%
All ranks60#5.3540.0%6.7%

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.

Also played

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

Augments

Riot’s match-v1 data does not report which augments a player took, so there is no augment number on this page and none anywhere else on the site. The augment reference lists what each one grants.