What is the best build for Nidalee?

We do not publish a best build for Nidalee, and the reason is worth thirty seconds. The most recorded Nidalee jungle build on patch 16.14 is Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass, in 207 games. A finished item set is read at the end of the game, so a build only appears once the game ran long enough to buy it, and a game that runs long is usually a game you were winning. Any share of wins taken from those games leans high for that reason on its own, which is why there is not one in this answer. The page lists every recorded build with the games behind it.

What are the best runes for Nidalee?

The most recorded Nidalee jungle rune page on patch 16.14 takes Dark Harvest out of Domination, with Sudden Impact, Sixth Sense and Treasure Hunter beside it and Transcendence and Waterwalking out of Sorcery. Players who ran it won 53.5% of 749 games, range 50.0% to 57.1%. A rune page is locked in at champion select, so that share is not inflated by long games the way a build is, but it counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

What skill order should I use on Nidalee?

Recorded Nidalee jungle players max Q, then E, then W. 394 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Nidalee build, patch 16.14

1,620 games of Nidalee recorded on patch 16.14, across jungle, support, top, mid and bot.

Win rate

52.0% of jungle games this patch

Pick rate

1.8% of jungle games

Games

1,409 jungle, patch 16.14

Rank in role

11 of 77 jungle champions

Win impact against the average jungle pick on patch 16.14: +0.8 wins per 100 games (range -0.8 to 2.5) 1,409 games Pooled

What most Nidalee jungle players build, patch 16.14

Build Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass, and run Dark Harvest

The rune page they run

Domination

Dark Harvest

Sorcery

Shards

749 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

The skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 394 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Max Q, then E, then W. The level by level count.

207 games finished this exact set. It is the set recorded most often, which is a fact about players rather than about the items.

Share of those games that were wins, in percent 54.6% (range 47.8-61.2) · 207 games · Measured

Games that finish a build are games that lasted, and lasting usually means winning, so this figure leans high before the items do anything. It is how those games went, not what the build does to your chances. How far that can bend a number.

Nidalee jungle is the role with the most recorded games on patch 16.14: 1,409 games, of which 733 were wins. That is the role this page leads with. Measured on this page: jungle, support and top, the roles that cleared 30 recorded games.

wins 0.8 per 100 vs the jungle average · 1,409 games on 16.14 · first-time players measured (1,269 games) · no clear move vs 16.13 (-8.0, range -20.4 to +4.4)

The build above is the one recorded most often, nothing more. Every recorded build, with its own games and its own share, is in the build list, in the order players built them.

Why this answer

A champion and role pair needs 30 recorded games before we put a score or a win impact on it: under that, a handful of lucky games moves a win rate by ten points. The same floor applies to a single build and to a single rune page, and anything under it prints its games and no number.

The share on that figure says how the games went, not what the build does to you. Nothing on this page measures that; the method note at the end says why.

What do most Nidalee players build?

Item sets recorded on patch 16.14, most built first, never sorted by how the games went. The share is how many of a build's own games were wins; a build under 30 games shows its games and no share.

Nidalee, jungle

8 item sets were recorded in this role and 5 of them cleared 30 games.

Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass
54.6% 207 games
Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame
58.7% 63 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass
56.9% 51 games
Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, Zhonya's Hourglass and Shadowflame
59.0% 39 games
Lich Bane, Void Staff, Hextech Rocketbelt and Zhonya's Hourglass
60.0% 30 games

A finished set is read at the end of the game, so every share here leans high: games that last long enough to finish a build are usually games that were already going well. How far that can bend a number.

Nidalee, support

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No support build recorded yet

We have 114 games of Nidalee support on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

Nidalee, top

0 item sets were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

No top build recorded yet

We have 69 games of Nidalee top on patch 16.14, but no item set repeated often enough to record as a build.

Read the rune pages instead

What runes do most Nidalee players run?

Whole pages that players actually ran, most recorded first. A page is locked in at champion select, so long games do not inflate its share the way they inflate a build's; it still counts who picked the page rather than what the page did.

Nidalee, jungle

10 complete pages were recorded in this role and 4 of them cleared 30 games.

Dark Harvest Domination with Sorcery

749 games

Domination

Dark Harvest

Sorcery

Shards

749 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Conqueror Precision with Sorcery

370 games

Dark Harvest Domination with Precision

178 games

Conqueror Precision with Inspiration

45 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Dark Harvest: 53.3% 942 games
Conqueror: 48.5% 429 games
Electrocute: 54.5% 44 games

4 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Nidalee, support

9 complete pages were recorded in this role and 2 of them cleared 30 games.

Summon Aery Sorcery with Domination

35 games

Sorcery

Summon Aery

Domination

Shards

35 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Summon Aery Sorcery with Resolve

31 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Summon Aery: 47.5% 80 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

Nidalee, top

5 complete pages were recorded in this role and 0 of them cleared 30 games.

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Inspiration

not enough games yet. 20 games so far, this needs 30. 20 games

Resolve

Grasp of the Undying

Inspiration

Shards

20 games ran this page exactly as it is drawn. We never stitch the most picked keystone onto the most picked second row and call it a page: nobody ran that one.

Other pages players ran

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Domination

not enough games yet. 17 games so far, this needs 30. 17 games

Grasp of the Undying Resolve with Precision

not enough games yet. 13 games so far, this needs 30. 13 games

Keystones picked, one slot on its own

Grasp of the Undying: 52.0% 50 games

3 keystones were recorded in this role: one slot on its own, counted across every page that used it, so the share carries the rest of each page with it.

What skill order should I use?

Counted from recorded level-ups on patch 16.14, one player per game.

Max Q, then E, then W

394 recorded games on patch 16.14.

Nidalee jungle skill path Each filled cell is the skill most players took at that level, from 394 games.
skill	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
Q	Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
W			W											W	W		W	W
E		E						E		E		E	E
R						R					R					R

Levels 10 to 18

10 E, 11 R, 12 E, 13 E, 14 W, 15 W, 16 R, 17 W, 18 W

Nidalee, support

Not enough support level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 24 games so far, this needs 30.

Nidalee support has 114 games recorded, but only 24 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

Nidalee, top

Not enough top level-ups yet

not enough games yet. 21 games so far, this needs 30.

Nidalee top has 69 games recorded, but only 21 games of them carry level-ups. A levelling order off that many games is luck.

How we count level-ups

When do players buy each piece?

The pieces of the most recorded Nidalee jungle build, in the order players buy them. The time is the middle of the spread across every recorded game on patch 16.14, measured at the buy rather than at the end of the game: half the recorded buys of the item happen before it, half after.

Buy times, earliest first

Lich Bane: 12:35 768 games
Hextech Rocketbelt: 13:43 1,271 games
Zhonya's Hourglass: 25:56 1,680 games

The bar is scaled to the latest piece of the set. Each item links to its own page, where the whole spread sits beside the games behind it.

Who counters Nidalee?

The opponents Nidalee jungle loses to most and the teammates Nidalee gains the most beside on patch 16.14. The chip is the edge in wins per 100 games, and the games behind it sit under the name.

Hardest opponents

64 more opponents sit under 50 games against Nidalee and are counted, not ranked. Every measured Nidalee opponent, with the full table

Best teammates

Every measured Nidalee teammate, with the full table

These numbers come from 108,616 ranked games we recorded on EUW, Korea and NA, found by following Diamond players and the people they play with. That is not every rank and it is not every region. Everything on this page is patch 16.14. Counted up to 24 July 2026.

How does Nidalee rank?

Every role we recorded Nidalee in on patch 16.14, scored or not. Win impact is measured against the average pick in that role on the same patch, and a role needs 30 recorded games before it is scored.

Nidalee by role

jungle B +0.8 wins per 100 games (range -0.8 to 2.5) 1,409 games Pooled: 55 1,409 games
support C -0.1 wins per 100 games (range -2.3 to 2.0) 114 games Pooled: 44 114 games
top C 0.0 wins per 100 games (range -2.2 to 2.1) 69 games Pooled: 45 69 games
mid not enough games yet. 23 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 23 games
bot not enough games yet. 5 games so far, this needs 30.: not scored 5 games

Why no share of wins on this page says a build is good for Nidalee

A finished item set is read at the end of the game. A player who bought the first two items and lost at twenty minutes never finished the set, so they are not in its row. Everybody in the row lasted long enough to buy it, and lasting is most of what winning looks like. The share those games won is pushed up by that on its own, before the items do anything at all, and the push is largest on the most expensive builds and backwards on the ones you buy when a game is going badly.

We know the size of it. In simulation, with every item's real effect set to exactly zero, an item read at the end of the game shows about 92% as a sixth completed item. A defensive item with a real 5 point benefit shows about 20 points the wrong way, because it gets bought when a player is behind. The measurement is here.

So this page counts and labels rather than ranks. The estimate that answers the real question is taken at the moment of the buy, from the state the purchase happened in, and it runs in the desktop app because it needs the game in front of it.