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Nidalee Build Guide by

AD Bruiser Nidalee Top (How to be a Chad Nidalee Player)

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Runes: The Klepto Rune Page (Look at the other runepage)

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Inspiration

Kleptomancy

Magical Footwear

Minion Dematerializer

Cosmic Insight

Domination

Taste of Blood

Ravenous Hunter

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

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why not you can split and its good in bad matchups

Flash

Teleport

Items

My Most Successful Build

Starting Items

Get sheen

Early situational items that you can finish later on

Essential Items

Tank Situationals

Damage Situationals

Example Build 1 Tankiness/Damage/Sustain all in one

Example Build 2 More Tanky

Ability Order R>E>Q>W

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

Irelia

Extreme

Hardest champion to be honest. This person can all in you and you cannot kite no matter what. Only way to defeat her is try to abuse her weak early levels and slow push early. Stay in bushes and poke her. When she tries to go in on you E > Q > W away. Irelia will get minion aggro because u slow pushed and have a minion wave and you kite back, so you win trade. Get sheen and tabis. If there's a point where irelia always shuts you down. (mostly because she got triforce) Freeze the wave at turret, proc klepto, and try not to die :D. Use control ward and wait for jungle to gank.

Amumu

Ideal

Im not going to put any other synergies because what you usually want is another frontliner/engager to tank and provide cc.

Synergies

Ideal Strong Ok Low None

Amumu

Ideal

Im not going to put any other synergies because what you usually want is another frontliner/engager to tank and provide cc.

Champion Build Guide

Intro

I am Yozuo, and I like to theorycraft builds and make them work. This is my first ever guide featuring the reason why I love league, Nidalee Top. This is the first off meta playstyle that I perfected.

Laning Phase

Your laning phase depends all upon the champion you're fighting. The things you need to know are: you want to learn how to place traps at the start, abuse bushes to poke them down, learning how to animation cancel and doing combos, auto spacing/abusing your range, and abuse wave to make it easier for you to win. All these things will help win lane. What you usually want to do is play safe until 3 or 6 when you can go in on them and kill them easily without any problems. You proc and abuse bushes because they give you movement speed so you can poke and deaggro minions quicker.

Grasp Playstyle: Basically the same as klepto except you want to use ranged auto with grasp and switch to melee

Tip: with klepto/grasp ranged auto > switch to melee and pounce away. It will count as a klepto proc and you'd be safe because you pounced away. But you have to do it quick enough.

Mid Game

Get the first tower, and then you roam and secure objectives. Help your team and tank for them while also dealing dps.

Late Game/General Gameplay

This build is mostly focused on being useful in team fights, but still, you'll come to see that your late game is where you feel most useless. In team fights(especially late game), do not act as a tank and engage first. Try to kill their backline and zone them off or you can peel for your carry, it's important to take those bullets for them because the team damage output will be much greater. Do not use your tp to engage fights, only to split or follow your opponents tp. tell your team to go 4-1 when your tp is up.

Combos

Ah yes... Combos. In lane and outside of lane combos are important.
Disengage: E>Q>W AWAY
Engage (Full Combo): Human Q > Optional: Trap in front of them > Cancel Q animation with E > auto them > Cougar > W > E > Q > W away if you wont be able to kill them or W in for the kill. (Tip: if you know they may dash or at the slightest chance, get away, then Q > E)
Engage (Quick) : Human Q > pounce > E > Q > W away
You can auto jump by using pounce right when Human Q is about to hit.
Tip: if they are abusing the wave to dodge you spears surprise them with a pounce onto them > transform > human Q. Also, an added-in auto can help increase your combo damage since you can animation cancel it.
Awesome guide for nidalee combos and animation cancels.

Counters

DO NOT GO NIDALEE TOP IF YOUR TEAM HAS NO CC. I cannot stress that fact enough because you will probably always lose. And I'm talking CC that can actually peel your ADC.
Also if you want to increase your chances of winning, ask your jungler/support to pick another frontliner

Thank you

Thanks for reading my guide and I hope it was helpful. I will probably add more later on. Remember that this build/style does need getting used to, and it is definitely not the most viable. Try it out, but not in a ranked game. It's fun! Feedback appreciated :)