- Win Rate
- 0%
- Pick Rate
- 0%
- Ban Rate
- 0.3%
Nidalee How to Play: Tips & Power Spikes
- Patch
- 26.20
- Matches
- 382,830
- Lane
- Top
- Tier
- All Tiers
- Last Updated
- Oct 11, 2026 UTC
- Methodology
- Data Methodology
- Author
- Dakota Chinnick
How to play Nidalee in Patch 26.20, built from ranked games: power spikes, the lane plan, how leads convert, and the habits that separate Nidalee wins from losses.
- Gold vs lane at 15
- +1,027
Nidalee Top Laning Plan
Nidalee is a lane bully: trade early and often, push the advantage, and turn the gold lead into the first item spike. On average Nidalee Top is 1,027 gold ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes and ahead in 68% of games. Nidalee averages 2.71 solo kills by 15 minutes.
Nidalee Mid and Late Game
What Nidalee does better or worse than other champions after laning, from this patch's ranked games — percentiles where 100 is the highest of every champion.
Play to these strengths
- Nidalee heals a lot (percentile 91): extended fights and sieges favor Nidalee.
- Nidalee wins 35.0 points more in short games than long ones: group, take objectives and end before the enemy scales.
Mistakes to avoid
- Nidalee falls behind in CS (24/100): last-hit the waves you can, items still matter.
Playing Nidalee
- Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
- Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
- Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
Playing Against Nidalee
- Nidalee's Hunt debuff is only applied with Javelin Toss and Bushwhack. Avoiding being hit by these abilities will impair her ability to deal follow-up damage.
- Nidalee's Javelin Toss deals more damage the farther she is. If she is far away, it's imperative to dodge it.
- Nidalee's Takedown deals extreme damage to Hunted targets, but she has to get close to use it. Save your crowd control or defensive abilities for when she goes in for the kill.
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How to Play Nidalee FAQ - Patch 26.20
How do you play Nidalee Top?
From this patch's ranked data, Nidalee wins by playing to these strengths: take long fights and sieges; end the game early.