Nidalee

JungleAPrangedassassinpickdiveteamfightpoke

Data486 pro games·Jan 2022 – Jun 2026·patches 12.1–26.11·CBLOL, First Stand, LCK, LCO Split, LCS, LEC, LJL, LLA, LPL, LTA, MSI, PCS, VCS, Worlds· incl. international·Browse source →

Comp identity — Jungle

Leans Catch — its strongest of the five comp axes.

Plays like — nearest pentagon

Ranked by how close their five-axis heatmap looks — role-agnostic.

Where it thrives (5-comp fit)

Catchnatural · 70%
Splitworkable · 40%
Siegeworkable · 30%
Nidalee deletes the target the moment someone is caught. Enough Split and Siege sits in the kit to threaten a side lane once the map opens. E (Primal Surge) heals herself or an ally scaling off the target's missing HP, giving her real teammate sustain uncommon for a jungle assassin/poke champion.

Kit quirks

E (Primal Surge) heals herself or an ally scaling off the target's missing HP, giving her real teammate sustain uncommon for a jungle assassin/poke champion
Cougar-form Q (Takedown) deals bonus damage scaling on the target's missing health, rewarding finishing off low-HP marks — true executioner mechanic
Passive Hunted marks (from Javelin/Bushwhack) reset her R cooldown when finished off in Cougar form, letting her chain human/cougar transformations rapidly once she starts landing pokes
All three Cougar-form abilities scale off her ultimate's rank rather than their own, so a lull right before her next point in R (often around level 10) leaves Takedown, Swipe, and Pounce all underpowered at once.

How Nidalee actually performs in ranked solo queue · 918 weighted games

Solo queue strength

Jungle54% WR · 851.5 games
Support51% WR · 46.7 games
Top47% WR · 16.4 games
Mid49% WR · 3.0 games
Bot50% WR · 0.8 games

Strongest duos

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

Duo playbook

+ Renekton (Jungle/Top)
Nidalee's spear (Q) and cougar-form Takedown both deal bonus damage that scales with the target's missing health, so even a partial poke often means a top-lane gank is already a kill — and a single early kill is enough to trigger Renekton's whole identity, since his Fury resource empowers his W into a stun and his Q into much stronger healing, letting a fed Renekton snowball a lane lead far harder than most top laners can.
— DraftDojo analysis