Nidalee

Nidalee is an AP assassin in the top, and on patch 16.11 they grade out as a situational pick — a 46.6% win rate, 0.1% pick rate, 1,003 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. Play around where Nidalee is thin, engage and disengage (2/10, 2/10), and the enemy loses their angle.

The most-played core build is Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, Spear of Shojin, which holds a 55.3% win rate across 47 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.