Jungle Nidalee Matchups

Serevas··1 votes·1,800 views

Hey everyone,

I've taken a bit of a shine to nidalee jungle as it's a bit more interesting to me than most of your traditional junglers, having the shape shifting mechanic I think is the big appeal for me, as I've also always been a big fan of Elise.

I guess my main question is how does she perform against most current junglers, at least the standard picks. Vi, J4, Lee, Fiddle, those kind of champions.

I played one game recently as I was pushed into jungle and she's one of my favorite champions, so with the recent jungle love she's been getting it just made sense for me.

The game I played had a Sion as the enemy jungler, which was a pretty easy matchup because he's super slow and clunky and might as well have a bullseye painted on him that says "Please land spear here." So all in all it was pretty easy to abuse that matchup pretty heavily, not to mention that my lanes all performed pretty well so that made the game much easier to deal with, which then leads me to my next question

Is she a good carry jungler? Obviously she has versatility in her builds, which is what makes her attractive to me in the first place, both in terms of laning as well as jungling. Would it be a viable to main her for jungling to climb?

Furthermore what are the really horrible jungler matchups to get her into? Does she have any or is she along the lines of Lee Sin where all the matchups are pretty much skill based?

11 Comments

Raxicor1 votes

The problem with trying to main her right now is that she has a high ban rate in ranked because she is so good.

Serevas1 votes

Really? She's been banned in 1/12 of my last ranked games. Must be the low elo difference I'm guessing.

Iisa ann1 votes

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Really? She's been banned in 1/12 of my last ranked games. Must be the low elo difference I'm guessing. Actually perms banned in diamond

Raxicor1 votes

Maybe but I'm going off of what people say in threads talking about permabans. I don't do ranked much at all. x'D

Acidic Puddle1 votes

Really? She's been banned in 1/12 of my last ranked games. Must be the low elo difference I'm guessing.

At Silver V she is almost never banned. Which is great for me, and not so great for my opponents. I'm 6-0 with Nidalee in sliver division so far lol.

Acidic Puddle1 votes

I am a midalee main too, and I love her in the jungle as well. In the LCS yesterday they said that a good nid does not loose to anything. However in Nightblue3's stream yesterday, he showed that Fizz jungle was fantastic. So maybe it could beat her, but i have not seen it at my Silver V elo...

Hell Week1 votes

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I am a midalee main too, and I love her in the jungle as well. In the LCS yesterday they said that a good nid does not loose to anything. However in Nightblue3's stream yesterday, he showed that Fizz jungle was fantastic. So maybe it could beat her, but i have not seen it at my Silver V elo...

Im pretty sure this guy can disagee. Zed and in early game this guy can kill you in 10 seconds Teemo ( goodluck hitting him your spears too!! Mobile, tiny, and very toxic. )

Acidic Puddle1 votes

Im pretty sure this guy can disagee. Zed and in early game this guy can kill you in 10 seconds Teemo ( goodluck hitting him your spears too!! Mobile, tiny, and very toxic. )

I meant in the jungle. Sure I loose lane to Zed all the time, but 1 good roam can turn the whole game around... So Zed is hard to beat in lane, but it isnt too bad. Plus most Zed's don't respect the spear and I can normally get ~4 and then kill him right after he gets out of his ult.

ZacsRealm1 votes

Just throw a spear and watch that super-fed super-tanky Nautilus 's health bar be depleted.

Acidic Puddle1 votes

Not necessarily... She is not that op.

Ada Wong1 votes

Depends on opinions.

1.) Nidalee Jungle is great can solo dragon minimum level 2 if you know how to do it correctly 3 usually.

2.) Nidalee Jungle can't carry ignorant feeders or unskilled teams the major downside to Nidalee if building full AP and non tank.

3.) On a skilled team who knows how to work around her and just have her doing harassment with ganks aka a team that doesn't depend solely on the jungler she is great.

Over-All in lower elo, I would debate against playing Nidalee Jungle unless the enemy team is unskilled they usually win because there are better champions you could play to work along side your mid and carry a bad bottom lane or top player.

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