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[14.19] S14 1300 LP JG Nidalee Guide 🚀 🚀 🚀

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Runes: Default/Standard

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Domination

Dark Harvest

Sudden Impact

Eyeball Collection

Relentless Hunter

Sorcery

Transcendence

Waterwalking

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+10-180 Bonus Health

Spells:

Default/Optimal

Flash

Smite

Items

Basic Core Build

Starting

First Back/Early Purchases

Boot Options

Ideal Early Base

Ideal Early Base 2

Core A

Core B

Core C (vs tankier/frontline)

Snowball hard

Example FULL BUILDS

Super standard

Dark seal snowball

Proto 2nd

Vsing frontline

Ability Order Normal Clear (red start)

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Nidalee Passive Ability

Threats & Synergies

Threats

Synergies

Extreme Major Even Minor Tiny

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None Low Ok Strong Ideal

Extreme Threats

Ideal Synergies

Rengar

Extreme

A good Rengar is very hard to beat. Who ever gets the first hit in usually wins unless the other is extremely strong. Play around his fury, if he has a way to get 4 fury combo then avoid at all costs. Zhonyas or an early armguard is a good purchase.

Pantheon

Ideal

W allows you to land your spear every time, strong early game enables your aggressive invades and ganks to work.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Pantheon

Ideal

W allows you to land your spear every time, strong early game enables your aggressive invades and ganks to work.

Champion Build Guide

Table of contents

Introduction

About Me
Why Nidalee
Pros & Cons

Runes & Items

Runes
Items
Summoner Spells

Gameplay

Jungle Pathing
Teamfighting & Lategame

About Me

Hey guys I am Whynot and welcome to my Challenger guide. I'm a Challenger player and Pro player from OCE. I started playing in early season 9 for competitive play. was a champion I played a lot of when I peaked top 20 in season 10. In Season 11 I reached rank 3 with 1330LP with as my 2nd most played and in Season 12 I was the 4th player in the world to Challenger. Season 14 has been good too, currently Challenger with an 80%+ WR on . I'd consider her my biggest comfort champ and I talk to many Challenger players from different regions to constantly ensure I play her as well as I can. I regularly stream my gameplay on Twitch and tweet a lot on Twitter .

Why Nidalee

Abilities

Nidalee - The Bestial Huntress
Jungle

Origin: Unknown

Speciality: Assassinating, Dominating, Carrying.
Why should you play this complicated champion? is a great pick that can take over and destroy SoloQ games. can outjungle opponents with ease, build large experience leads and leave the enemy jungler in the dust so hard the opponent laners will all chat 'Jungle Gap.'

Pros & Cons

PROS

+ Consistently Strong in the META
+ Can 1v9 games at all ELOS
+ High Skill Cap
+ Extremely Fun and Enjoyable, especially when you start to get better at her
+ AP jungler, widen your pool away from only AD and Tanks
+ You are the limit of the Champion, so many options and strength

All in all, is a great champion on Jungle for soloq. In soloq high tempo jungling is really strong, you will be able to destroy the enemy junglers mental as you put on a clinic of mechanics

CONS

- No hard CC in kit
- Squishy when built full damage
- Hard playing from behind
- Takes a lot of practice to learn
- Requires strong clearing fundamentals and practice

Just like any other champion, has her weaknesses. However, her strenghts heavily outweigh her weaknesses. When mastered and you know how to play around her weaknesses will have dominating early games that you can transition to early wins for easy LP and plays.

Runes

DOMINATION

This domination page shows the most efficient rune page for AP Assassin . The main keystone for is . allows you to execute enemies easy with your and . With a basic combo the will proc the allowing to do even more execute damage.

For the second row you always want to take over the others. gives you an amount of magic pen depending on your level when you use . This magic penetration increases your damage output by ignoring magic resist when you go in to kill. Therefore is the best choice for

In the 3th row there are 2 possible choices. Either or . I would advise running in most of your games. In games above Diamond 2 the amount of wards placed is far more and the utility gained by is more relevant. is a great alternative that stacks on wards making it also viable alongside . Both runes give AP when you stack them. Since more AP means more damage on abilities.

In the last row you want to opt for . is also a good option. You can opt for either stronger early snowballing or the potential of increased mobility around the map, it's largely preference with both being fine choices.

For the second tree I advise looking at the runes at the top of the guide. I currently take in 90% of my games. because Ability Haste is such an important stat on that synergizes well with her whole kit. Second taking because it is the other best option in the sorcery tree, AP and Movement Speed in river is good for scuttle fights and ganking lanes from river.

Items

Jungle Item
The choice between and is generally personal preference. Often there is one that is situationally better, I default to in most games as it's very synergistic with passive . It allows you to be incredibly fast through the jungle enabling you to catch rotations and chase down enemies. is good against high burst damage. is an underrated option, the slow it provides on initial hit can be procced with an auto attack allowing an easy follow up.

-Items-

Items explained

S14 ITEMS:

On the build path is quite straight forward.
Starting off with is standard. From there we can look to start itemizing based on enemy comp and what we need. has a lot of damage with only that one damage item so you DONT have to rush pure ap and get an item like , instead opt to build smart - identify what you need. Do they have high AD champs? Get a and if you're vsing CC or just need the active, upgrade it into . Have they got AP assassins? is a fine purchase which will give you magic resist.

My most common buys are if I want the safety of the active along with the amazing stats (120 AP in S14 now), or if I want the damage spike vsing high MR. is currently a BETTER option than most games, the item is needed mid to late game for the pen and the ability haste it provides is great now other items lack it. Seeing as with this build is practically 100% AP damage you can imagine how much more damage you're doing when ignoring magic resist. now giving ability haste makes it a strong first item.

When looking at 3/4th items look to round out with the other items mentioned that you haven't purchased. always 1st and then follow it with a mix of as your core with other options such as and being more situational.

Finish up with a if you still have item space and want the pure AP. is extremely strong as has amazing ratio's and makes good use of the high AP numbers on her and her along with and having a ratio that synergizes well with .

Boot options are also preference for the most part. If you have the gold and the enemy won't pick up too much magic resist usually you opt for , if you dont have enough for the item (800g after boots) or the enemy will get magic resistance then works great as an economical purchase that also gives great power. Defensive boots are also viable with both and being great choices when done for the right reasons. and players hate a with and the same way and players will cry seeing and in your inventory.

Last to talk about, is a great item on . You usually pick up a on your first base and from there you can assess if you want to upgrade it into . When you reach 10 stacks on you gain 10% bonus movement speed which is absolutely broken.

Summoner Spells

SUMMONER SPELLS
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FLASH: is an essential summoner. It allows you to close gaps to kill the enemy or to escape from the enemy. You can also buffer spells such as through flash to do some fancy plays. There is no debate possible about this summoner spell.

SMITE: Just as , is a non negotiable summoner spell for every jungler. You can not build jungle items without smite so make sure to always take smite.

Jungle Pathing

Blue Start

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This is a standard full clear starting from the blue buff. As you have a very fast full clear. If you manage to spot the enemy jungler you can run into his opposite side and steal his camps. Keep an eye on the map and leave when it gets dangerous. You should practice your clears often, watch me on stream as I constantly explain how to clear as and give examples on different paths.

Red Start

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This is a full clear starting at the red buff side. What side I usually start depends on what I'm looking to achieve from my first clear, am I looking to get Top ahead? Is my support giving me easy CC to follow up with a for a free gank? full clearing isn't a waste of options as she clears so fast you'll be ready to contest scuttle and start pressuring enemy laners and jungler

Teamfighting & Lategame

Teamfighting & Late game with Nidalee
Teamfighting as is one of the hardest things to learn. When you first start off playing you will land a spear and chase it, going into the enemy team 1v4 achiving nothing but a 30 second death timer. Teamfighting as requires patience, attention and crazy APM.

The aim of the game is to win, to destroy the enemy nexus. The best way to do this is after teamfights that you come away on top of, 1st lesson is to swallow your ego and recongise what you need to do to win the fight. More often than not you'll have someone on your team whose job it is to carry the fight, there are a number of things you can do to enable a carry. If they're an ADC/ranged mid, make sure you have on the sides and flanks to spot any potential threats, be ready to to heal them or increase their DPS, make sure to land spears and use and to maximize your damage by landing spears, tranforming for and then reverting back to human to use again. What I'm trying to say is that every fight doesn't need to be you pouncing in to int when you can do more damage and help your team more by playing more conservatively. When the time is right and you are able to blow up an enemy with your abilities after landing a do so, this is one of the best parts about having , you can buffer to kill an enemy and then be in stasis.

In the late game you should be a huge damage dealer with your spears from long range, this can make you one of the most useful junglers when sieging the enemy base. At this point is when it's even more important to enable your carries as , if you have a sidelane win condition try to get placed in such a way to give vision to them. Work with your support to secure good ward placements and easy picks with any CC into your burst damage.

Conclusion

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