Nidalee

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.

Dragons & win rate

Win rate when Nidalee's team secured at least one of each drake, next to the all-champion rate in that same state. Teams that take dragons are usually already ahead, so every champ wins more with them — the honest read is the gap, i.e. whether Nidalee beats the average team that also has the drake. Single-drake samples are thin; treat small counts as suggestive.

Duo playbook

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  + 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