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Nidalee Build Guide by

A Jungle Nidalee Guide

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(6) |

Nice build and guide. I was play nidalee few time in Jungle. Your build was helpful, but Nidalee isnt type of champions that I like to play.

Nice guide

(353) |

Thanks!

(337) |

I'll continue to love this guide until days to come, it's so beautiful. ≧◡≦

(353) |

Thanks for the support!

(337) |

Despite being god awful at playing I can't help but just loving to read this guide on her. I think it might be because she has so many playstyles and uses for her abilities (well and two different forms of course lol). It's just very fun to me, even though i'm not even a jungle kind of player, more of a mid one. Just some particular champions interest me so much even though I completely suck at them. x)

(7) |

I used to play Nidalee however I feel she isn't as strong as she used to be. Do you think she is that good at the moment and is she worth getting back into?

(353) |

She's still decent! Not the best but definitely playable. If you enjoy her enough play it but if you value wins there definitely are easier champions to pick up and be more effective on.

(337) |

Welcome back mate, love the guide :) You're right some of the text is outdated, but hey, it's been archived for a reason before after all, so it makes sense as to why it would be.

(353) |

thanks! Guide should be up to date now.

(337) |

That's awesome! :)

This is a really great guide for though and it explains so much which is good considering she has a rather complicated set of abilities to make use of.

(353) |

Unarchived. Text is a bit outdated but will fix ASAP.

(353) |

Revamped formatting.

is AD Nidalee viable? Also would you suggest it over AP?

(353) |

viable, but wouldn't suggest over AP. it's pretty niche but it's fun to play

(1) |

Interesting guide, I used to be a Nidalee main before it became popular then backed off once it became the flavor. I was wondering why you bring Grail and Hourglass? I feel there are better build paths to reach max cdr without overstacking and giving Nidalee more damage. That being said I enjoyed the guide, your outlining of some of the finer points of Nidalee's playstyle was on-point.

(353) |

Grail is just extremely cost efficient and a really quick buy for how cheap it is. Hourglass is really useful for playmaking given how you're reliant on going in for executes.

You actually don't overcap on CDR with the new runes. Old runes I used to run cdr/lvl which was why there was an overcap but with new runes that's avoided by not having any cdr

thanks for the feedback!

(1) |

Ah That's right! I just double checked, I completely forgot that Grail was changed to 10% CD from 20% CD which is why I was thinking that the build overcapped. Not my preferred item, but it is definitely cost efficient! Thanks for the quick reply, I plan to check out more of your guides in the future. Really enjoyed the detail in the mechanics.

Happy Holidays! ~ +1

(569) |

hello my homie from anotha momie

u r overcapping cdr with your final example build

and have you been experimenting with armor/lvl seals mixed with hp/lvl seals?

(353) |

tbh overcapping cdr when you get all those items really isn't that bad cuz ur buying the items primarily for their actives / stats / passives and you're relegated to more of a support-ish role once mid late game hits. Going tabi or mercs would be one solution but having early cdr is really nice on nid so I personally wouldn't unless you need the tank stats from merc or tabi.

i tried armor/lvl and it's nicer for the clear, but at that point if you wanted a better clear I think just running mixed flat armor and hp/lvl might b better

Hello =)
i prefer AD marks but after this great guide i will try attack speed =)
thx for publishing

(353) |

Glad you enjoyed it!

(1) |

hey a nidalee build with attack speed would be good? You know just for the fun of it.

(353) |

AD nidalee's actually a pretty legit build. not sure about Attack speed :P

u can go warrior / cinderhulk, trinity force, IE, RFC

just started playing nidalee and enjoying it so far. would you be willing to add runes/masteries for an ad build?

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(353) |

Sorry don't think I'm gonna add a build for that, but try running:

AD marks, armor or hp/lvl seals, 6x cdr 3x AS or 9x AS glyphs, and AS quints

18/12/0 with fervor

Okay, thanks :) I will try this out.

Hi Embracing!

Just want to notify you something.

Before during patch 6.20, Nidalee had a pretty good statistics according to Champion.gg with a 51% win rate with an 8.45% play rate average. Now she is the 2nd lowest win rate jungler with 42% win rate with a play rate that dropped way down to 3.6%. I don't understand how she just fell out of flavour that quickly. Is it because of the new tank meta or what?

I would like your opinions on this.

(353) |

The jungle changes are the main reason for this.

Before the jungle rework Nidalee was 100% pick/ban material in solo queue because she could endlessly power clear and apply immense pressure to lanes and the enemy jungler. She could single handedly carry games through getting level leads and outpressuring the enemies. This never really showed in her overall win rates because she's always been an extremely high skill-cap champion, which you can see through her average win rates and ban rates growing exponentially the higher the rank of the games.

However, with the jungle changes in the rework, the jungle camp spawn timers have been extended, meaning that she can power-clear a lot less, taking away one of her primary strengths. She can't acquire the same level leads as early as before and now can be 1v1'd by enemy junglers a lot easier. Her skill cap hasn't changed at all, making the player put in a lot more effort to make her effective.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback.

(625) |

I don't know for sure if it's true or not but I also heard that the new raptor camp is horrible for her, that's not good for someone who was previously one of the best clearing junglers.

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(353) |

Nida actually clears that decently compared to other junglers if she's level three w/ and but that means you have to start blue for a good clear or you're forced to skip the camp while starting red.