Otping Nidalee Welcome go by Judgement and I've been playing Nidalee for roughly 5 years. Ive accumulated about 7 million mastery points with her and have climbed through pretty much every elo on the EUNE, EUW and NA servers. My peak ranks are Rank 1 on EUNE, Challenger 1100 LP on EUW, and Grandmaster 550 LP on NA with 130 ping. In the past I used to main Lee Sin that's how I got my first Diamond rank. But during Season 9 I decided that Nidalee's healing was a much cooler way of helping teammates than just shielding them (that was literally the reason). In the next chapters Im going to lay out everything I know relating to Nidalee If at least one person found this guide useful then that's job done for me. Replays I have watched thousands of replays from various Nidalee onetricks and know most of them including Chinese and Korean players. (Back in the day I would nerd out over every single Nidalee player account that was above Grandmaster literally like OhnePixel with skins.) My favorites are by far Sally, Flora, Zeyan, Sawyor, and that one Korean player who was hitting 80% winrate Challenger every few months with the same runes on different smurf accounts during Seasons 12 and 13. Stream & Coaching I Stream pretty inconsistently. twitch/judgementxdd if you need more informations related to this guide or would like to get coaching you can invite me on discord: judgementeb or join the discord server discord CURRENTLY THE GUIDE IS INCOMPLETE I MAKE IT FULLY MYSELF SO IT NEEDS TIME

Rank Achievements All my peaks were achieved solo, I'd rather get good than waste time abusing "free elo". RANK 1 EUNE 70% WR 400LP EUW 80% WR STARTING IN MASTER CHALLENGER EUW EUNE 75% WR CHALLENGER RANK 20 CHALLENGER EUNE + EUW AT THE SAME TIME BOTH 70% WR EUW 1100LP PEAK FILL TO MASTER CHALLENGE Euw,Na,Eune Grandmasters at the same time 2025

Essential Nidalee Knowledge I Playstyle Nidalee is not a real Assassin her damage is nowhere close to champions like Talon, Rengar or Heartsteel Dr. Mundo. Most of your damage comes from your spear which is a very inconsistent ability and your ultimate does nothing compared to those of other assassins. Thats why 90% of your fights should be played slowly focusing on a few ability rotations. II Ultimate Nidalee Aspect Of The Cougar brings you a significant amount of damage at levels 6, 11 and 16. It's a good power spike each level in your ultimate gives you approximately 200 extra damage only from cougar spells. You should always seek to achieve those levels before fights. III Dark Seal & Mejai's Soulstealer Losing 5 stacks on a Dark Seal effectively costs you around 400 gold. So if you die chasing a random kill and drop those stacks you are actively handing gold to the enemy team. On a larger scale dying with Mejai's Soulstealer costs you an additional 1000 gold in lost value. If you happen to be fed your death has the value of Mejai's Soulstealer combined with your shutdown what costs your team a 2000 gold loss. Understanding the true cost of dying especially with stacks is crucial for climbing as Nidalee. IV Match & Avoid Jungle Theory Generally, the jungle revolves around this concept you either try to match the enemy jungler because you assume you are stronger and can win every 2v2, 3v3 or you try to avoid them because your matchups are "bad". Nidalee big advantage is that you can match pretty much every jungler. Most fights are good for you whether you are diving or the enemy team is doing so.You can very often find kills in these fights. Your weakness is the lack of them. It gets difficult when you have to 1v1 champions from 100% to 0 health because your champion just lacks damage. Nidalee wants to skirmish and doesn't like slow, scaling games where people avoid trading and nothing happens. V Creating Skirmishes Consider a scenario where no one on the map is initiating fights. How can you create opportunities in such a passive game state? When your team is hesitant to engage you can often force the enemy team to take action instead. One effective method is to invade and steal their jungle camps. This puts pressure on the enemy jungler especially if you end up with, say, five camps while they only have three. If they continue farming passively, you will gradually build a significant experience advantage. The enemy jungler is likely to react they might start an objective force a gank or often chase you into your jungle this creates the skirmish you lack VI Raptor Camp Theory This isn't specific to Nidalee but it's something that applies to many junglers. The raptors camp is an important objective for every jungler because of its positioning. If you lose control over your raptors, the enemy can use that area to gank side lane with a strong angle, cross through mid for a gank or simply invade and leave without much risk. It's easy to invade the raptor camp and difficult to punish the invader. That’s why as Nidalee you should prioritize taking and defending your raptor camp sometimes even going for a raptors to raptors invade. To better understand this, compare raptors to other camps if someone invades your gromp, wolves, or even golems, they’re more committed and at higher risk of dying. But the raptor camp is placed so poorly that anyone in the river can swing by, take it in five seconds and leave safely. Even if you see them doing it there's no nearby lane that can reliably collapse and help stop them. This applies to both red and blue side. Coaching: discord judgementeb

This chapter is a placeholder for the video that im gonna create and add in here (one day xd) explaining secret nidalee mechanics and trust me they are a lot of them.

Useful concepts in early game Level One Remember that your passive makes you the fastest level one champion in the game you can use that to put level one ward on enemy raptors every single game without any risk. Having vision on enemy raptors allows you to know enemy pathing 100% of the games. If enemy jungler doesnt show up on raptors at 2.25 hes pathing to redside, if he does show up his clear is to botside Enemy JG Always think about enemy jungler pathing before the game starts if you do so the game becomes way easier u can predict the fights and control them. Preparation The best habit you can develop in league of legends is always checking enemy resources before entering a fight so if you are about to gank bot u should always check their items and summoner spells even if its a early gank. This way u get a habit to do it every single time. Ive seen many challenger players fail with that you can do better Primal Surge Value Your E is not only scaling with missing health but also gives attack speed. There are situations where using it for the Attack Speed is way more important than just restoring health. I lost plenty of fights because of trying to save my dying teammate in early levels (he died anyway) and i couldnt clean up 1v2 because of attack speed shortage. I know it sounds crazy but thats the reality putting attack speed on urself and getting 2 kills is way better than trying to save 100% death ally whos gonna do nothing with it. General Early Game Focus Once you can play the champion on autopilot and focus on the game your main focus should be planning 30 seconds in advaned forseeing the game and having answers ready. This way you are gonna get efficient at what you do instead of wobbling around and losing time its peculiarly imporatnt in early game when your plan is stable

Useful concepts in mid game Midgame is the longest time frame in League of Legends. It starts after the first tower falls and lasts until you get to Elder Drake or high amounts of items. Most League games finish in midgame. After taking first tower the game becomes really easy macro wise especially with Nidalee You can easily play through lanes, take free wins like deep vision, take enemy camps, etc. When your team plays high on the map, you should ignore some of your camps and play in the enemy jungle. Nidalee is okay at sieging and poking. Taking deep priority to move to another tower and siege it out is a good option when there is nothing else to do and is considered to be a natural game progression. On the other hand, when you lose the first tower and enter midgame that way, the roles are reversed. The same concepts apply to you, but there is always a way to use them! If the enemy jungler doesn't respect the lanes and invades you without syncing with waves you can oneshot him! Your job is either ignoring the tempo they're generating and playing with your sidelaner or you trying to cross their rotation through the jungle. If the enemy team doesnt escort their ADC and goes immediately to siege or dive the second tower you can easily catch them on rotation and turn the game around. Big objectives for Nidalee are getting level 11 Aspect Of The Cougar and finishing your jungle item. You usually get these two pretty close to each other. Level 11 is the biggest damage spike you're going to get in the game (except for Rabadon's, lol). In theory, this is your timer to do a lot of fighting and get something meaningful. That's because midgame skill points don't mean much on Nidalee maxing Bushwhack is dead it doesn't give anything except traps amount. Therefore once you reach level 11 your next damage spike is 5 levels away. Fighting 5v5 at level 11 is always better for Nidalee compared to fighting at level 13/14/15.

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Yapping about Nidalee in Soloq

Being a Nidalee otp doesnt come easy, so i would suggest you play at least two champions The main problems you are going to face are teamcomps because league of legends is heavily driven by esports many people play soloq like its esports. If you reach master+ elo your gonna get many esport driven players and Nidalee place in proplayer is... non existant so its pretty normal for nidalee to be exeptional pick for both proplayer and soloq. European soloq lies on AP mids and enchanter support thats the reallity we cannot change. Your gonna spend a lot time playing with those people that make your champion 10 times worse by picking Janna and Viktor.

Actual Dodges

if you want to maximize winning you should dodge enemy champions rather than yours stat chceckers and big counters should be mainly addressed, champions like Dr. Mundo, Naafiri or enemy Draven Nautilus botlane

S15 dodges

Sadly dodging is completely bugged in this season, many people cant even squeeze 3 dodges a week I myself dodged a game in day x and 3 days later my next dodge took -15lp, so the cooldown nowadays is random.

1 Is Nidalee worth maining

2 Nidalee skin

3 Nidalee is just coinflip champion

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Judgement

• x/12/2022 - Guide was created with some text