How to win the jungle race as Nidalee against Udyr · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
Read from Nidalee's seat: the race windows this plan plays for against Udyr.
| Stage | Read | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 Clear | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Hard no-contest for Nidalee at level 1: Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight, and Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage. Path opposite, ward your entrances, and let the clock carry you to your own spike. |
| Level 2 Skirmish | Danger — Avoid Udyr | Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Blazing Stampede's stun plus Wingborne Storm shred wins any straight fight on top of that, so level 2 is a straight stat check Nidalee loses — pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage, and give the river vision-line respect. |
| Level 3 Route | Respect Udyr | Four stance points are online and their awakened trades hit their hardest window, and Nidalee has no clean answer to it at the opening scuttle — Blazing Stampede's stun-lock into awakened stance damage runs you down in a straight line. Pre-position toward your tier-two side and dodge the first stun engage, and give up the first scuttle rather than the kill. |
| Levels 4-5 Macro | Respect Udyr — Path Opposite | Levels 4-5 still belong to Udyr in a straight fight — farm the opposite side, answer their ganks cross-map, and wait for your spike. |
| Level 6 Breakpoint | Respect Udyr's R | Awakened Blazing Stampede chains stuns faster than your cooldowns recover — Nidalee loses the straight post-6 duel. Break the chase with walls — his power is point-blank and he cannot force the fight, and shift your pressure to the side of the map Stance Mastery is not on. |
| First Item Spike | Lich Bane / Shadowflame Spike | Completing your core item triggers a massive magical damage and burst multiplier that completely overpowers traditional brawlers or assassin targets. Udyr's first item is where the awakened stance rotations stop being a heavy trade and start being a kill. |
| 2+ Items Scaling | Danger — Udyr Outscales | Every minute past 25 tilts toward Udyr — he is an awakened-stance brawler with sustain, damage and a stun on a short timer. Force your win condition early or watch it slip away slowly. |
Start your clear at the Red Buff camp to maximize early clear speed and health retention via E heal loops before executing a fast 3-camp clear straight into an aggressive lane gank or invade path. Udyr clears extremely fast with stance swaps and shields himself through it, so he is rarely below full health.
Ranked by the race windows in Nidalee's plans — the jungle race carries no win-rate sample.
The full Nidalee vs Udyr report continues with scuttle & dragon rules, invade windows and safety boundaries, the top-side objective fight, macro rotations and the win condition — plus the live enemy-jungle tracker that shows their start, clear and gank timers in game.
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Udyr pressures 6 of the 7 windows in this race — survive the early game and scale into your windows.
Not exactly — Udyr pressures 6 of the 7 windows, so Nidalee is playing catch-up and has to lean on the map.
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