Fast 8ConsistentCarried by NidaleeA Teamfight Tactics Set 18 comp, measured on patch 18.4b ranked games.
Difficulty Easy None of our four difficulty signals apply
Updated 20 Oct 2026, 06:18 UTC · ranked games, last 7 days, Diamond+ · Patch 18.4b
Take it when you hold B.F. Sword and Giant's Belt, and nobody else is on Nidalee
Others on Nidalee in the lobby, over 2,489 games of this patch at all ranks.
Scout the lobby: with two or more other players on Nidalee it placed #6.17, against #5.67 with nobody else on them.
First Sterak's Gage (B.F. Sword + Giant's Belt)
Of Nidalee's most played build, the item its boards placed best with: #5.44 over 616 boards.
Then: 
B.F. Sword ×2, 
Sparring Gloves, 
Tear of the Goddess
Nidalee's items go on Kog'Maw until Nidalee comes in at level 7. plan
Its games end at Lv 7 4% · Lv 8 70% · Lv 9 24%
Nidalee 3★ on 1% of boards
Infinity Edge, Spear of Shojin, Sterak's Gage
#5.92 over 103 games
Nidalee Infinity Edge, Spear of Shojin, Sterak's Gage · 103 games · #5.92B.F. Sword ×3 · 
Giant's Belt · Sparring Gloves · Tear of the GoddessThe whole board at level 8, where most of its games end, drawn from its games at all ranks over the last 14 days. 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.
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.
Nidalee★★Infinity EdgeSterak's GageSpear of ShojinSentinel★★Gargoyle StoneplateProtector's VowWarmog's ArmorSivir★★Infinity EdgeGuinsoo's RagebladeRed Buff
EliseDiana★★Kog'Maw★★Apheliosbest
Morganamost playedAphelios + Varus #6.29 97
Amumu + Varus #6.68 96Viflex
Brambleback
CaitlynVarusbestPaste it into the game’s Team Planner to have these champions marked in your shop.
What to do at each stage, from the numbers below: stages 2 and 3 are our plan, 4 to 6 the level its players were measured at.
Play Akali, Pebbles, Teemo and Kog'Maw.
Nidalee's items go on Kog'Maw until Nidalee comes in at level 7.
Add Vi and Gromp.
Its players average 8.0 when they go out in stage 4.
Add Nidalee, Sentinel, Sivir, Diana and Varus; sell Teemo, Akali, Gromp and Pebbles.
Fill the last two slots: Aphelios + Varus #6.29 (0% won, 97 games), Amumu + Varus #6.68 (1% won, 96 games); all level-8 boards #6.56.
70% of its games end at level 8.
Its players average 8.2 when they go out in stage 5.
Its players average 8.6 when they go out in stage 6.
Sell Vi and Varus.
24% of its games end at level 9.
Its games end around round 5-4 on average, with 9 gold left.
The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 2,691 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned. Each level’s options are this patch’s.
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3
2Nidalee’s items on Kog'MawAdded133Nidalee’s items on Kog'MawAdded133Nidalee’s items on Kog'MawAddedSold122
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2
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2AddedSold13222
22Optionsall: #6.56 · 1% won · 289 gamesAphelios + Varus#6.290% won · 97Amumu + Varus#6.681% won · 96AddedSold133322
Added133322The 10th championall: #2.02 · 32% won · 15,347 gamesRek'Sai#1.9336% won · 1.1k
Krug#1.9435% won · 1.6k
Taric#1.9436% won · 3.2kAmumu#2.0232% won · 13k · most playedNot a reroll comp: nothing is 3-starred on even 1 board in 5.
Level 8 and up are the boards this comp’s games ended on. 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. Hover a trait badge for what it does. Rows marked real are the boards of the games that went out at that level holding four or more of this comp’s units — real boards on the way to it, not its own games. Under a measured level, its options: what its games put in the slots past that level’s core, best placed first, with average place, win rate and games beside the level’s own. All of them went out at that level, so none is flattered by having got further. The board draws the first, in a gold ring; the most played is named among them. The row marked best adds the champion that placed best at the level above.
How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Nidalee, over 2,489 games of this patch at all ranks. 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.
| Others holding it | Avg Place | Share of games |
|---|---|---|
| Nobody else | #5.67 | 38% |
| 1 other player | #5.71 | 41% |
| 2 or more | #6.17 | 21% |
What people search for about this comp, answered from the numbers on this page.
Fast 8. Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.6 on average. Its games end most often at level 8 (70%).
Its most played build this patch is Infinity Edge, Spear of Shojin and Sterak's Gage: #5.92 over 103 games.
In Diamond+: average place #5.87 and 25% top 4 over 733 Diamond+ games in the last 7 days. At all ranks it averages #5.81 over 1,129 games.
Yes, contest costs it: with nobody else on Nidalee it placed #5.67 (38% of games), with one other #5.71 (41%), with two or more #6.17 (21%), over 2,489 games of this patch at all ranks.
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 | -0.14 | 775 |
| Nidalee | Sterak's Gage | #5.44 | -0.37 | 616 |
| Nidalee | Spear of Shojin | #5.86 | +0.05 | 549 |
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 | #5.92 | 103 |
Components to hold B.F. Sword ×3, Giant's Belt, Sparring Gloves, Tear of the Goddess
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.
5.89avg place292 gamesPlaysInstead of
6.40avg place206 gamesPlaysInstead of
5.30avg place169 gamesPlaysInstead of
4.20avg place124 gamesPlaysInstead of
5.55avg place117 gamesPlaysInstead ofWhat 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.
AD carry
By ruleSuits this carry: Nidalee is built for attack damage here (1,718 boards)
Baron's Lair
Coronation
Deadlier Blades
Hold the Line
Soul Awakening
Cybernetic Implants
Double Trouble
Early Learnings
Embiggen
NO SCOUT NO PIVOT
Tons of Stats!
Focused Fire
Stand UnitedBy ruleNot a reroll comp: it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.22 (2,691)
Commerce Core
Invested+
Invested++
Prismatic Ticket
Upward Mobility
Calculated Loss
Cognitive Overload
Epic Rolldown
Epoch
Epoch+
Trade Sector
Trade Sector+
Crafted Crafting
Patience Is A Virtue
RecombobulatorBy ruleWrong damage type: Nidalee is built for attack damage here (1,718 boards)
Deadlier Caps
Seraphim's StaffRiot’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.
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.
Active on the final board above, with the next breakpoint the trait offers.
Caustic1Primal3next 4Adaptor2next 3Invoker2next 3Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3Vanguard2next 4What 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 | 25.721,49934.58104 |
| Invoker | 25.771,37835.7851745.5514155.2568 |
| Lunar | 25.5992435.38133 |
| Primal | 25.791,68645.35477 |
| Vanguard | 25.831,99445.37417 |
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+ | 733 | #5.87 | 24.8% | 2.7% |
| All ranks | 1,129 | #5.81 | 26.1% | 2.9% |
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.
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 | 4 | #4.38 | 184,865 |
| Riftbeast Nidalee & Malphite | — | 4 | #4.57 | 18,199 |
| Primal Nidalee & Sivir | — | 4 | #4.97 | 2,570 |
| Primal Nidalee & Sivir Hunter | — | 4 | #4.77 | 349 |
| Riftbeast Nidalee & Brambleback | — | 4 | #5.10 | 289 |
| Primal Nidalee & Sivir Juggernaut | — | 4 | #3.93 | 282 |
| Primal Nidalee & Sivir Vanguard | — | 4 | #5.32 | 248 |
| Vanguard Draven | — | 4 | #5.54 | 127 |
