Why NO ONE Plays: Nilah | League of Legends

Nilah is one of the most interesting "ad carries" in League of Legends. But despite having room for incredible carry potential, she's one of the least played bot laners in the game. For today's episode of Why NO ONE Plays, we'll be discussing why.

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[raystimphil]

Nilah's biggest problem is that rather than giving her a base kit that fits Botlane and let her be her own thing, they used her passive to jerry-rig her into a role she doesn't fit in, and if you try to build her the way that is intuitive given her kit, you are punished by her unique scalings.

[raduraiescu]

The thing that let Nilah keep all the broken parts of her kit is the fact that no one plays her

[Mmoll]

Yone players can take what they know and apply it directly to the uninstall button.

[oneofthesionmains]

They have a champ with melee range, fast autos, multiple dashes, high turret damage, a skirmisher type of defensive W and a high damage sustain ult. They took that champ and decided she wouldn’t do damage with her Q or have sustain unless you built crit then also decided that she only has a passive if you force her ADC. Rito did what they always do with champs that go outside the role they “belong” in except this time her “role” was so incongruous with her kit they had to destroy her other roles before she even launched

[pengdawnd]

Wild Rift completely axes her bonus EXP passive and changes her bonus heal and shield passive to just lifesteal based on crit, akin to Nasus, so she can actually get good value out of an engage support, plus, Wild Rift only need 4 items for 100% crit chance instead of 5, so Nilah gets going faster, and she has the option of building stuff like Guardian Angel or something.

Funnily enough this also lets her thrive in the Jungle, I have no idea why.

[Shimadacat]

The issue is that Nilah is balanced around her passive, which gives bonus XP. This means the rest of her kit must be designed around the fact that she is *intended* to miss minions and XP. Remove the bonus xp passive, and suddenly you free up the rest of her kit to give more; more range, longer counterstrike, more damage, etc.

[GuardianGrarl]

Nilah is a refugee from Inside Out who's emotions were all burned to death except Joy.

[antarath]

It tends to lead to the most atrocious 1-6 grind, but Nilah/Renata is insane once you both hit your 6 spike. Suddenly you've got the most insane engage and peel and you start getting big damage too.

[AirWeezy]

Ya as a nilah main you right I even feel unstoppable with a soraka or sona support

[ender]

Ironically, Nilah is my comfort pick for adc. I usually feel vulnerable and not very strong with conventional marksmen.

[itsnotpan.]

She's literally my key to climbing ranked along with Jinx. When she is ahead she snowballs like crazy.

[tonyle]

I definitely agree with your points of Nilah needing the supports to know how Nilah works. I’m a Nilah main in Master elo, most players in that elo know how Nilah works. Her lvl 2 spike at 8 minions instead of 9 or lvl 3 at 3 waves instead of 3.5. So people usually play around that, both enemy and your support.

The main issue arises from her not being a blindable adc. If shes against a heavy cc comp or long range poke comp or a double range matchup bot, its going to be a hard time. So you usually would need to see the enemy team comp before picking her. However with the swapping introduced in champ select, adcs, sups, and jg usually go first, so you dont see the full enemy comp b4 picking.

And newly in S14 with the grubs, supports liked to roam up for it leaving you and the enemy adcs to stare at each other bot for awhile. So your exp passive isnt being utilized until they come back.

[anthonypalumbo]

I don't think I had any idea what Nilah's abilities did before this video lol

[penguinspy]

Nilah is like the Kayle of botlane, if that makes any sense 😂

[filiptruty]

Unrealated info from a Soraka OTP: Soraka Q gives her HoT (heal over time) effect.
Nilah gets healed whenever Soraka's Q HoT ticks which is like 6-8 visually times and if Soraka uses her W that HoT effect is given to the target as well. The noise that Nilah's passive effect makes when Soraka heals herself with Q so Nilah gets a heal combined with Nilah heals from Soraka QW so Soraka gets healed is truly by far the funniest thing and noise I ever wittnesed in my 14 years with league 😂😂😂

[francenkovcan]

12:44 Nilah can become a more frequent pick if they introduce more melee bot laners, since once critical mass of such characters is reached, they will all go form niche picks that aren't exactly worth it to master, to a main stay
it's kind of similar to what Genshin's Navia has to deal with, there aren't enough DPS characters that take up half a rotation to do their damage to compliment her, which lowers her meta viability, because the only other character that fills that role is Ningguang, and she is trash due to being a 4* Geo DPS, also known as the second worst possible combination of attributes a character can have in Genshin, only behind 4* Physical DPS units

[StonedDragons]

Love the ol' cheese comp of Nilah and Taric, you just play super aggressive into the enemy and win hard due to the extra sustain and once tarics ult comes online, the two together produce an insane amount of damage mitigation.

[hellfrozenphoenix]

I think her main fix will be a simple mini rework, making the healing part of her passive more useful universally. Maybe a way to make her heal herself more so she doesn't require a specific, other champ to make work.

I like the idea of shaking up whats allowed in each lane, but they need to be careful how they do it. I still find Pyke an annoying mistake of champ, but I think his existence is good. It shows a willingness to shatter whats normal an what isnt.

[o_psicopato]

i play kayle top, aurelion mid and nilah bot, im all about that endgame baby

[snekwashere]

As a nilah main I’ve been waiting for this for so long