Nidalee
Computed from 64,744 ranked Solo/Duo games collected through the Riot API · patch 26.21.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Jungle | 47.8% | 2.0% |
| Support | 47.3% | 0.3% |
Nidalee is banned in about 1.5% of games at this tier, one figure for the whole champion since bans happen before roles are picked. What ban rate measures.
Nidalee's Jungle win rate is 2.2 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Nidalee is tracked in 2 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Jungle — its numbers in Support (0.3% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Nidalee's Jungle Build
In Emerald+ games on patch 26.22 (including games from other ranks or the previous patch, as Emerald+ on this patch alone had too few), Nidalee's most common Jungle setup runs Flash and Smite with Dark Harvest, maxes Q first, and builds Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, and Mejai's Soulstealer — 59.1% win rate over 21 games.
- Summoner spells
Flash + Smite
59.1%21 games - Runes
Dark Harvest + Sorcery
97.7%5 games - Skill priority Q > E > W 83.0%19 games
- Starter
Scorchclaw Pup + Health Potion
54.7%19 games - Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes
81.1%18 games - First three items
Lich Bane → Hextech Rocketbelt → Mejai's Soulstealer
76.5%1,633 games
Nidalee's Jungle Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Games | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 41.4% | 1.0% | 2,323 | 1.13σ | Yes |
| Bronze | 43.7% | 1.2% | 3,324 | 1.04σ | Yes |
| Silver | 45.9% | 1.5% | 5,133 | 0.71σ | Yes |
| Gold | 47.0% | 1.9% | 7,021 | 0.55σ | Yes |
| Platinum | 48.5% | 2.4% | 9,343 | 0.30σ | No |
| Emerald | 50.3% | 2.9% | 9,087 | 0.06σ | No |
| Diamond | 51.2% | 3.9% | 11,229 | 0.27σ | No |
| Master | 53.2% | 5.2% | 8,430 | 0.67σ | Yes |
| Grandmaster | 54.2% | 7.6% | 805 | 0.56σ | Yes |
| Challenger | 51.9% | 9.6% | 246 | 0.16σ | No |
Nidalee's Jungle win rate ranges from 41.4% at Iron to 54.2% at Grandmaster across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with at least 200 games in this role — a 12.8-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.56σ at Grandmaster and 1.13σ at Iron, with both clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral.
- Power curve
- Strong early game
- Threats
- Burst and poke
Curated reads, not measured: how we judge these
Who Counters Nidalee in Jungle?
Champions That Counter Nidalee
| Champion | Win Rate vs Nidalee | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Nasus |
59.5% | 1.99σ |
Amumu |
58.5% | 1.78σ |
Ivern |
57.3% | 1.52σ |
Singed |
56.9% | 1.45σ |
Fizz |
56.7% | 1.40σ |
Champions Nidalee Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Nidalee | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
Jayce |
43.6% | 1.34σ |
Yone |
44.3% | 1.19σ |
Garen |
45.1% | 1.02σ |
Qiyana |
46.4% | 0.76σ |
Skarner |
46.7% | 0.69σ |
At most five champions are listed in each direction for Nidalee: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 3-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.