Nilah
Hardest matchups for Nilah in Bot (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Xayah, 
Veigar, 
Jinx. Easiest: 
Ezreal, 
Yasuo, 
Caitlyn.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into NilahOn the pro tier list
Nilah on patch 16.22
- Bot53.4%#4 of 51S2,316 games
- steady since 16.21
Nilah’s main role on patch 16.22 is Bot: a 53.4% win rate across 2,316 Emerald games, #4 of 51 Bot champions on the tier list (grade S), picked in 0.9% of games. Since patch 16.21, Nilah Bot has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.1 points across 15,387 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bot98% of its games | A | 50.9%51.1% raw ±1.1 | 7,355 | 1.0%1.4% banned | 52.9%46.0% first time |
| Top1% of its games | too few games | 48.9%37.6% raw ±10.2 | 93 | 0.0%1.4% banned | 51.1%46.7% first time |
| Mid0% of its games | too few games | 49.2%24.1% raw ±18.2 | 29 | 0.0%1.5% banned | 51.2%46.6% first time |
| Jungle0% of its games | too few games | 49.8%44.4% raw ±18.9 | 27 | 0.0%1.4% banned | 51.4%47.3% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.9%0.0% raw ±69.3 | 2 | 0.0%1.4% banned | 51.3% |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Nilah’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 Nilah, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Nilah
Lane leads and team bans
What Nilah’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Nilah than the other team does in the same games (53,595 games). The other team banned before Nilah was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Nilah 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 Nilah is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- Crit
52.6%7,663 games - Lethality
53.0%65 games - AD bruiser
52.5%4 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Nilah 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.
8,225 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Exhaust + Flash51.3% · 1,512 games
ConquerorPrecision + Inspiration · 51.8%
Triumph · Legend: Alacrity · Last Stand · Cash Back · Cosmic InsightShards: Attack Speed · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 52.8%
Key items: The Collector → Infinity Edge · 53.0%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 54.9%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Exhaust + Flash51.3%1,512 games · 18% pick rate · same players: +1.1 pts vs the usualRecommended
Flash + Ghost53.0%818 games · 10.0% pick rate · same players: +0.4 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Flash + Barrier51.0%5,267 games · 64% pick rate · the usual choice
Flash + Ignite49.1%181 games · 2.2% pick rate · same players: −0.9 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Inspiration51.8%5,949 games · 72% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Domination48.3%1,394 games · 17% pick rate · same players: −0.4 pts vs the usual
Conqueror + Resolve50.9%566 games · 6.9% pick rate · same players: −1.4 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph51.1%98% take it
- Legend: Alacrity52.1%71% take it
Legend: Bloodline48.6%29% take it
- Last Stand51.1%87% take it
Cut Down50.1%7.5% take it
Coup de Grace52.4%5.3% take it
- Cosmic Insight51.9%92% take it
- Cash Back52.0%89% take it
Magical Footwear50.9%8.7% take it
Triple Tonic48.1%5.3% take it
Biscuit Delivery52.6%4.1% take it
- Attack Speed50.9%96% take it
- Adaptive Force51.4%3.6% take it
- Adaptive Force50.9%99% take it
- Health52.1%27% take it
- Health Scaling50.5%71% take it
- Tenacity and Slow Resist50.5%2.2% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Nilah’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Nilah’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 Nilah does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Nilah wins 47.7%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 54.2%. That gap ranks it 50 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 18K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Nilah 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.
Nilah has not been played in the major leagues this season.
How much knowing Nilah pays
Players on their Mastery band win 6.5 points more on Nilah than first-timers do: #50 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Nilah players win 54.2%: #3 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 54.7%, and is half-way up by ~32K points.
NilahDots 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.
Nilah ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Kalista, Zeri, Smolder.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.