Vanguard Nidalee & Aphelios

Too few games to grade in Diamond+: 86 in the last 7 days, and its numbers start at 400. All ranks shows what we measured.

Game plan

How it’s played

Fast 8 Players of this comp who go out in stage 6 are level 8.9 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

Contested?

Others holding Nidalee / Aphelios: 1 other: #4.96 · 2+ others: #4.69

Pace

Level when its players go out — stage 5: 8.4 · stage 6: 8.9

Games end

Lv 8 40% · Lv 9 53% · Lv 10 6%

Vs its level

Finishes at level 8.5 on average. Boards at its levels average 4.25 across every comp; this one averages 5.06, 0.81 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 9, 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.

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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.

5Taric★

• Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Crownguard

4Aphelios★★

• Guinsoo's Rageblade
• Kraken's Fury
• Infinity Edge

carry

4Sentinel★★

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

3Diana★★

3Kog'Maw★★

3Mama Beak★★

1Rakan★★

4Nidaleeflex

2Scuttlecrabflex

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How it’s played

The board at every level from 4, with what each level adds and sells. From level 8 up it is measured over 289 games at all ranks over the last 14 days; below that it is planned.

Lv 4plan222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 5planAdded3222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 6planAdded32222Aphelios’s items on Xayah

Lv 7planAddedSold1322222

Lv 840%AddedSold1142222

Lv 953%Added114322222

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 or Aphelios, over 169 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.

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	#4.27	-0.73	86
Nidalee	Sterak's Gage	#4.31	-0.69	74
Nidalee	Spear of Shojin	#4.84	-0.16	50

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 84.94avg place83 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.

By ruleSuits this carry: Nidalee is built for attack damage here (146 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: Not a reroll comp (15), Wrong damage type (3)

By ruleNot a reroll comp: it 3-stars a unit in under 10% of boards, averaging level 8.63 (289)

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

3 more

Crafted CraftingPatience Is A VirtueRecombobulator

By ruleWrong damage type: Nidalee is built for attack damage here (146 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.

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. #3i am patoska#EUWChallenger · EUW · 1,672 LP · level 9 · out at 6-5 · 2026-10-06

Traits

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

Caustic1Emerald Aspect1Vanguard4next 6Riftbeast3next 5Adaptor2next 3Invoker2next 3Juggernaut2next 4Lunar2next 3Rapidfire2next 3

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
Vanguard	24.8811944.44144

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+	86	#5.06	41.9%	5.8%
All ranks	105	#5.00	42.9%	4.8%

Trend

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.

5.3811

4.5612

5.3713

4.5814

5.3315

4.5616

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
Vanguard Aphelios Invoker	—	5	#5.91	65
Primal Aphelios & Nidalee	A	4	#4.37	192,062
Rapidfire Aphelios & Brambleback	A	4	#4.41	24,977
Invoker Morgana & Sentinel	—	4	#4.37	14,690
Riftbeast Aphelios & Brambleback	—	4	#4.65	14,483
Rapidfire Aphelios Lunar	—	4	#5.35	1,329
Riftbeast Aphelios	—	4	#5.33	1,147
Vanguard Kha'Zix Defender	—	4	#3.74	628