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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!

(336) |

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

(353) |

Thanks for the support!

(336) |

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.

(336) |

Welcome back mate, love the guide :) You're right some of the text is outdated, but hey, it's been archived for a reason before after all, so it makes sense as to why it would be.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

(336) |

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 Text is a bit outdated but will fix ASAP.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.

(569) |

One Master tier main has been running 1x 8x for a while now and takes only flat ap (this is to increase 's early game pressure]]. I think is currently one of the stronger items on . as well, but only in comps where you have a support that doesn't get it (e.g. ) and an ADC that can use it (e.g. ).

He also clears the jungle same way. On blue side he gets bot buff > wolves > top buff, but on red side he goes bot buff > wolves > gromp (smite) and b > red > gank. Seems pretty interesting to me.

(353) |

Flat AP glyphs and quints are optimal b/c she needs them for early pressure after the nerfs. RoA is pretty good on her right now, but I don't think Ardent Censer is too good because you typically don't consciously stay in Human form to heal your ADCs as Nidalee to be effective. Something like Athenes, which can be very effective on every member of the team regardless of whenever you change into human form, is probably more ideal.

Pathing shouldn't ever be fixed either - it depends on what you can achieve on the map depending on how the lanes play out and how the team compositions are. That being said, with the current meta, buff 1 into wolves into buff 2 is a really solid start for most general scenarios where you want to end up top side and pressure early. I'm not sure about the 2nd path's specific timing but it seems that his second path lets him go top / mid with lvl 4 at a timing where the enemy jungle is most likely clearing a camp and allowing him to easily transition into clearing raptors and back to bot side after.

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