Nidalee

Nidalee is an AP assassin in the jungle, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a strong pick — a 51.9% win rate, 2.8% pick rate, 32,929 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Nidalee is front-loaded: at peak strength early and falling off the longer the game runs, so the win condition is to convert early pressure into objectives and leads before the 25-minute mark.

How Nidalee wins: roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map, and using Nidalee's mobility to catch isolated targets. The kit grades 7/10 roaming, 7/10 mobility. Nidalee grades low on engage and disengage (2/10, 2/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Lich Bane, Hextech Rocketbelt, Zhonya's Hourglass, which holds a 46.8% win rate across 2,802 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.

The matchup to respect is Kled, where Nidalee sits at just 41.3%, the lane swings the other way into Taliyah (59.5%), and on the team side, Nidalee gains the most from a Yasuo (+9.5% pair win rate).