Nidalee
Hardest matchups for Nidalee in Jungle (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Rek'Sai, 
Ivern, 
Zyra. Easiest: 
Locke, 
Jayce, 
Ambessa.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into NidaleeOn the pro tier list
Nidalee on patch 16.22
- Jungle50.2%#38 of 74B5,997 games
- Support48.5%#39 of 77C648 games
- steady since 16.21
Nidalee’s main role on patch 16.22 is Jungle: a 50.2% win rate across 5,997 Emerald games, #38 of 74 Jungle champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 2.4% of games. Nidalee is also played Support: a 48.5% win rate across 648 games, #39 of 77. Since patch 16.21, Nidalee Jungle has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.3 points across 31,028 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle87% of its games | B | 49.6%49.6% raw ±0.7 | 20,406 | 2.9%2.0% banned | 51.6%46.6% first time |
| Support8% of its games | C | 47.7%46.5% raw ±2.3 | 1,769 | 0.3%2.0% banned | 50.7%48.3% first time |
| Top4% of its games | D | 46.6%42.7% raw ±3.4 | 826 | 0.1%2.0% banned | 49.9%45.8% first time |
| Mid1% of its games | too few games | 48.9%45.1% raw ±5.8 | 286 | 0.0%2.0% banned | 51.1%47.3% first time |
| Bot0% of its games | too few games | 48.8%38.8% raw ±9.1 | 116 | 0.0%2.0% banned | 51.4%45.6% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Nidalee’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Nidalee, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Nidalee
Lane leads and team bans
What Nidalee’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Nidalee than the other team does in the same games (120,633 games). The other team banned before Nidalee was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Nidalee was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Nidalee is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AP sustained
50.6%10,875 games - AP burst
53.5%8,937 games - AD bruiser
51.8%48 games - Enchanter
52.0%10 games - Tank
51.7%9 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Nidalee does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
22,258 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Smite49.8% · 22,154 games
Dark HarvestDomination + Sorcery · 49.6%
Sudden Impact · Sixth Sense · Treasure Hunter · Transcendence · WaterwalkingShards: Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion · 52.6%
Key items: Lich Bane → Hextech Rocketbelt · 50.6%
Boots: Ionian Boots of Lucidity · 52.9%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Smite49.8%22,154 games · 100% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Keystones
Electrocute + Sorcery45.0%631 games · 2.8% pick rate · same players: +1.5 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Dark Harvest + Precision52.4%1,460 games · 6.6% pick rate · same players: +0.7 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended- Dark Harvest + Sorcery49.6%14,859 games · 67% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Sorcery50.1%4,098 games · 18% pick rate · same players: −1.1 pts vs the usual
Minor runes with Dark Harvest
- Sudden Impact49.9%100% take it
- Sixth Sense52.7%30% take it
Grisly Mementos48.7%70% take it
- Treasure Hunter49.8%97% take it
Relentless Hunter52.1%3.0% take it
- Waterwalking49.6%99% take it
- Transcendence49.6%98% take it
- Ability Haste52.2%10% take it
- Attack Speed49.5%87% take it
- Adaptive Force50.5%2.4% take it
- Adaptive Force49.8%100% take it
- Health52.1%23% take it
- Health Scaling49.1%76% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Nidalee’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Nidalee’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Nidalee does when built that way.
Champions like Nidalee
The champion map
Two different questions: which champions share its toolkit, and which ones the players who play it also play.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Nidalee wins 43.6%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.3%. That gap ranks it 19 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 130K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Nidalee in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 51.2%22W 14L | 2%2% in any lane | 69% counter | +447 gold | — |
| Top | 50.2%4W 3L | 0%2% in any lane | 86% counter | +957 gold | — |
| Support | 50.2%1W 0L | 0%2% in any lane | 100% counter | +671 gold | — |
How much knowing Nidalee pays
Players on their Mastery band win 8.7 points more on Nidalee than first-timers do: #19 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Nidalee players win 52.3%: #93 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The curve is still rising there: its fitted ceiling of about 53.5% lies beyond the data and is an estimate, not a measurement.
NidaleeDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Nidalee ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Kindred, Rengar, Nunu & Willump.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.