Riftbeast Gromp & Nidalee

Game plan

How it’s played

Riftbeast shops at level 7 Its Riftbeasts reach 3 stars partly through Riftbeast’s free shops, one every three combats, not only through rolls.

Play it when

you hold Needlessly Large Rod and Tear Of The Goddess, and nobody else is on Gromp or Nidalee (it placed #5.07 then, #5.40 against two or more)

Build

Gromp Blue Buff, Hextech Gunblade, Jeweled Gauntlet · 35 games · #4.77

Components

Needlessly Large Rod ×2 · Tear Of The Goddess ×2 · B.F. Sword · Sparring Gloves

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 4: 7.3 · stage 5: 7.7 · stage 6: 8.2

Games end

Lv 7 28% · Lv 8 51% · Lv 9 15%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 7.7 on average. Boards at its levels average 5.22 across every comp; this one averages 5.23, 0.01 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.

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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.

4Nidalee★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Infinity Edge
• Spear of Shojin

carry

4Sentinel★

3Kog'Maw★★

• Red Buff
• Spear of Shojin

3Vi★★

2Gromp★★★

• Jeweled Gauntlet
• Spear of Shojin
• Hextech Gunblade

carry

2Scuttlecrab★★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Warmog's Armor
• Spirit Visage

2Sejuani★★

1Rakanflex

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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 3,336 games; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan3Gromp’s items on PebblesNidalee’s items on Sejuani

Lv 5planAdded4Gromp’s items on PebblesNidalee’s items on Vi

Lv 6planAdded43Nidalee’s items on Vi

Lv 728%AddedSold143222

Lv 851%Added1433222

Lv 915%Added1533222

3★ targets Gromp57% Scuttlecrab37% Sejuani26%

Contested?

How this comp placed by how many of the other seven players in the lobby held Gromp or Nidalee, over 401 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
Gromp	Jeweled Gauntlet	#4.76	-0.41	1,214
Gromp	Spear of Shojin	#4.87	-0.30	829
Gromp	Hextech Gunblade	#4.66	-0.51	729

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
Gromp	Blue BuffHextech GunbladeJeweled Gauntlet	#4.77	35

Components to hold Needlessly Large Rod ×2, Tear Of The Goddess ×2, B.F. Sword, Sparring Gloves

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 84.67avg place533 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 84.65avg place493 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 85.08avg place330 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 76.42avg place193 gamesPlaysInstead of

Lv 86.19avg place112 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.

• Primal 4 averages 4.70 here, against 4.88 at Primal 2 (2334 boards)

  Beast WithinBeast Within+

By ruleSuits this comp it 3-stars a 2-cost in 63% of its boards (3336)

Commerce CoreInvested+Invested++Prismatic TicketUpward MobilityCalculated LossCognitive OverloadEpic RolldownEpochEpoch+Trade SectorTrade Sector+

3 more

Crafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

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. #4Nanande#nanaChallenger · SEA · 1,705 LP · level 8 · out at 6-1 · 2026-09-28

Traits

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

Caustic1Juggernaut4next 6Adaptor3next 4Riftbeast3next 5Invoker2next 3Primal2next 4Vanguard2next 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	25.771,01534.621,51544.75468
Invoker	24.842,00834.8934044.6264
Juggernaut	25.6269645.142,45064.43131
Primal	24.882,19544.70139

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+	241	#5.23	34.4%	1.2%
All ranks	401	#5.17	37.2%	1.5%

Trend

Avg Place on each of the last 3 days. The bars are scaled to the range shown, so the shape is the comparison and the figure under each bar is the day.

4.946

5.417

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	4	#4.32	77,644
Primal Nidalee Juggernaut	—	4	#5.12	4,340
Primal Nidalee Adaptor	—	4	#4.40	210
Juggernaut Alune & Nidalee	—	4	#4.08	182
Primal Aphelios & Nidalee Adaptor	—	4	#5.73	99
Invoker Nidalee & Morgana	—	4	#5.49	89
Riftbeast Draven & Elder Dragon Primal	—	4	#4.58	57