Support Nidalee build with runes and items. Support Nidalee guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Nidalee build in League of Legends Patch 25.05!
You support your Team providing Healing, Shielding and various Buffs.
You rush Moonstone Renewer.
You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.
How to play
General
You need to adapt in the game to your team and to the enemy team.
Your team needs to engage? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari
If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!
Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Oblivion Orb early.
Champion
You can max E or Q.
If you got ADC or strong auto attacker on your team, you can focus them with your heals to boost their damage.
Tips and Tricks
Champion
You can use your traps Bushwhack / Pounce (W) for bush control.
When there's Cannon minion or Siege minion, try focusing it, so an enemy team won't destroy all your traps.
For that reason, you can put your traps more behind your position (i.e., if an enemy team has great engage on your team).
As Nidalee, you have your ultimate Aspect Of The Cougar (R) since lvl 1. You can lose track of enemy levels and get surprised by their level 6 spike and their ulti. Watch out!
You can abuse Sudden Impact rune with Javelin Toss / Takedown (Q) in Human Form! Throw Q, then use switch to Cougar Form. If it hits, they are dealt additional true damage. Same works with Bushwhack / Pounce (W).
Human and Cougar Form interactions
Nidalee is treated as melee in Cougar Form and as ranged in Human Form. That means there are interactions with certain runes and items. Examples below.
Grasp of the Undying - If you want to deal more damage, get more Health and heal for more with Grasp of the Undying - when auto from ranged, switch to melee (when animation is mid-flight)!
First Strike - If you play Nidalee with First Strike rune, if you use Human Javelin Toss / Takedown (Q) and change to Cougar Form, you actually get the melee gold. This way you can farm and earn additional gold per minute by syncing Q with First Strike (beware of Bushwhack / Pounce (W) though!).
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Hubris - if you score a takedown when in Cougar Form, you get more Attack Damage (melee effect), than you would get in Human Form.
Riot
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.