Wild Rift: NILAH Build Guide
League of Legends: Wild Rift NILAH, role - Assassin / Marksman. Use the guidelines to take your NILAH Wild Rift champion play style to the next level. Study in detail the build of items, runes, spells, skills that need to be developed in the first place. In order to find out what position NILAH is in the rating table, go to the - Tier List page.
 58 (3) |  600 (128) |  10 (0.43) |
 0.87 (0.02) |  340 (50) |  10 (0.86) |
 350 (0) |  37 (5) |  32 (2) |
 175 (0) |
(PASSIVE) JOY UNENDING
After an attack crits, Nilah heals herself for 20% of the damage dealt. Excess healing is converted into an equivalent amount of shield that lasts 6 seconds.
(Q) FORMLESS BLADE
4s 
30
Passive: Gains 35% of current Critical Strike Chance as Armor Penetration.
Active: Nilah cracks her whip-blade in a straight line, dealing 63 physical damage (10/15/20/25 + 90/100/110/120% ) to enemies hit. Every 1% Critical Rate increases damage by 1%.
After Formless Blade hits an enemy, Nilah gains 10% Attack Speed (
) and 125 bonus Attack Range. Her attacks also deal 100% physical damage to enemies in a cone for 4 seconds reduced by 80% against non-champion.
When Formless Blade is cast during Slipstream, Nilah leaves behind a wave that is sent towards her at the end of the dash, dealing the same damage to enemies hit.
Deals 25% damage to monsters.
(W) JUBILANT VEIL
21/20/19/18s 45
Nilah envelops herself in mist for 1.75 seconds, during witch she gains 15/20/25/30% Movement Speed, reduces incoming magic damage taken by 25% and becomes immune to non-tower attacks. If there are allied champions nearby, the nearest allied champion gains the same effects, and the duration of the effects Nilah gained is extended by 1 second.
(E) SLIPSTREAM
18/16/14/12s 40
Nilah dashes forward for a fixed distance, dealing 82 physical damage (70/100/130/160 + 20% ) to any enemies that she passes through. Empowered attacks reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1 second. Cooldown is further reduced by 1 second after hitting a champion. Hitting any unit will also refresh this ability's cooldown.
Cooldown cannot be refreshed again within 10 seconds.
If no unit was hit, immediately enters cooldown.
(R) APOTHEOSIS
80/70/60s 80
Nilah whirls her whip-blade, dealing 60 physical damage (60/120/180 + 140% bonus ) continuously over 1 second and reducing the enemy's Movement Speed by 10% for 3 seconds.
When keeping her whip-blade, Nilah also deals 125 physical damage (125/225/325 +120% bonus ) and pulls nearby enemies toward her. Nilah also heals herself and nearby allied champions by 20% of the damage (20% + 30% ) that she dealt to enemy champions. Excess healing is converted into a shield that lasts 6 seconds.
Non-champion units are healed by 10% instead.
DUO NILAH Build items and runes
The information below will help you get familiar with the game on the DUO Line NILAH. We have prepared a items builds, runes, summoner spells and ability order for a comfortable game. Situational options for replacing items and runes are also available to you.
Key items
Long Sword. Next, you should pay attention to whether your mobility champion is enough, our further actions will depend on this. If it is hard for you to dodge the enemy's skills or you want to roam on neighboring lines, then it is better to buy 
Boots of Speed at an early stage.
Long Sword
+12 Attack Damage
500
Bloodthirster
Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health +45 Attack Damage
+25% Critical Rate
+15% Attack Speed
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health
preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 220-530 damage (
), 10 Armor and 10 Magic Resist for 5s. (90s Cooldown)
Bloody: 
+8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp. 3100
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a core pick for auto‑attackers who value both damage and durability. It greatly boosts your attack power, critical chance, and attack speed, turning every hit into self‑heal, and at low health provides a powerful shield with extra defensive bonuses. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to dish out damage and survive clutch moments.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp +35 Attack Damage
+45 Move Speed.
Conversion: +7% Omnivamp
. 1400
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who rely on auto-attacks and need constant sustain. They provide bonuses to attack damage and movement speed, while the “Conversion” passive turns a portion of your damage into omnivamp, allowing you to stay in fights longer. Especially useful for marksmen, fighters, and junglers who frequently skirmish and require extra healing from their attacks.
Navori Quickblades
Abilities grant damage amplification and cooldown reduction +40 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate +15% Attack Speed
Deft Strikes: Critical Attacks reduce your non-ultimate ability cooldowns by 15% of their remaining cooldown.
Impermanence: Your abilities deal up to 12% increased damage based on. 3000
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who aim to amplify their ability damage and reduce cooldowns. Critical strikes accelerate your non‑ultimate abilities, while your skills hit harder based on your crit chance. — A top pick for marksmen and assassins who weave auto‑attacks with spells to swiftly eliminate targets and maintain combat momentum.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp +35 Attack Damage +45 Move Speed.
Conversion: +7% Omnivamp. 1400
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who rely on auto-attacks and need constant sustain. They provide bonuses to attack damage and movement speed, while the “Conversion” passive turns a portion of your damage into omnivamp, allowing you to stay in fights longer. Especially useful for marksmen, fighters, and junglers who frequently skirmish and require extra healing from their attacks.
Boots of Dynamism
Attack Damage, Armor Penetration +30 Attack Damage +45 Move Speed.
Strike: 
+10 Armor Penetration. 1400
Boots of Dynamism TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who rely on physical damage and need extra mobility to roam the map quickly. They grant bonuses to attack damage and movement speed, while the “Strike” passive increases your armor penetration, helping you deal more damage to tanky targets. Especially useful for marksmen, fighters, and assassins who want to close gaps faster and land more powerful auto-attacks.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
Quicksilver Enchant
Dispels crowd control
Quicksilver (Active): Removes all crowd control effects currently affecting you, and become immune to crowd control effects for 0.75 seconds.
Perseverance (Passive): After the Quicksilver effects ends, grant 30% Tenacity and 30% Slow Resist for 1.5 seconds. (60s Cooldown)
Cannot be used during knock up or knock back effects. 800
Quicksilver Enchant TIPS: This enchant cleanses all crowd control effects, grants brief CC immunity, then boosts your tenacity and slow resist. Perfect for champions who need to quickly purge control to stay in the fight.
Bloodthirster (Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health) as your first item, followed by Gluttonous Greaves (Grants Attack Damage and Omnivamp) or Boots of Dynamism (Grants Attack Damage and Armor Penetration) depending on the situation. (sometimes it will still be better to build a boot as the first item, which significantly increases the mobility of your champion) the third key element in our build is Navori Quickblades (Abilities grant damage amplification and cooldown reduction).
Maybe now it's time to think about upgrading your boot, invest in
Stasis Enchant (Turn invulnerable). You may want to replace it with Quicksilver Enchant (Dispels crowd control), it all depends on your playstyle and the situation on the battlefield.
The remaining last three items are situational, of course you can use the example builds above. But for a more effective game you will need to pay attention to the situation on the battlefield.
Bloodthirster
Gain shields, Armor and Magic Resist at low Health +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate +15% Attack Speed
Lifeline: Damage that puts you under 35% Health preemptively grants a shield that absorbs 220-530 damage (), 10 Armor and 10 Magic Resist for 5s. (90s Cooldown)
Bloody: +8% Physical Vamp, Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 4% Physical Vamp. 3100
Bloodthirster TIPS: This item is a core pick for auto‑attackers who value both damage and durability. It greatly boosts your attack power, critical chance, and attack speed, turning every hit into self‑heal, and at low health provides a powerful shield with extra defensive bonuses. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to dish out damage and survive clutch moments.
Gluttonous Greaves
Attack Damage, Omnivamp +35 Attack Damage +45 Move Speed.
Conversion: +7% Omnivamp. 1400
Gluttonous Greaves TIPS: These boots are perfect for champions who rely on auto-attacks and need constant sustain. They provide bonuses to attack damage and movement speed, while the “Conversion” passive turns a portion of your damage into omnivamp, allowing you to stay in fights longer. Especially useful for marksmen, fighters, and junglers who frequently skirmish and require extra healing from their attacks.
Navori Quickblades
Abilities grant damage amplification and cooldown reduction +40 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate +15% Attack Speed
Deft Strikes: Critical Attacks reduce your non-ultimate ability cooldowns by 15% of their remaining cooldown.
Impermanence: Your abilities deal up to 12% increased damage based on. 3000
Navori Quickblades TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who aim to amplify their ability damage and reduce cooldowns. Critical strikes accelerate your non‑ultimate abilities, while your skills hit harder based on your crit chance. — A top pick for marksmen and assassins who weave auto‑attacks with spells to swiftly eliminate targets and maintain combat momentum.
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing +25 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate +15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper: +30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Infinity Edge
Increases Critical Strike Damage +60 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Infinity: Critical Strikes deal 205% damage instead of 175%.
Limit Break: When your totalgain from items exceeds 100%, every 1% excessgrants 0.6 bonus Critical Damage. 3400
Infinity Edge TIPS: This item greatly amplifies your auto‑attack power by boosting the base damage of critical strikes and granting extra critical damage when your total crit chance from items is capped. — Perfect for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters looking to maximize their crit damage and squeeze even more value out of high crit chance builds.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Situational items
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Maw of Malmortius
Converts damage from attacks into a magic shield +55 Attack Damage
+45 Magic Resistance +10 Ability Haste
Demonbane: 20% of the damage that your attack deals, or 15% of the physical damage that your abilities deal is converted into a magic shield that absorbs up to 60-400 magic damage. The shield decays by 5% per second. 3000
Maw of Malmortius TIPS: This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
Maw of Malmortius — This item is a great choice against burst mages like Vex, Syndra, and Annie, who can quickly take you down. It provides bonuses to attack damage, magic resistance, and ability haste, helping you resist magic damage. The "Demonbane" effect converts a portion of the physical damage you deal into a magic shield that absorbs magic damage, making it especially effective against both burst and sustained damage mages like Vladimir and Swain who rely on consistent damage over time.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Edge of Night
Blocks an enemy ability +250 Max Health +50 Attack Damage
Gouge: +8 Armor Penetration.
Annul: Grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability. This spell shield refreshes upon leaving combat with enemy champions. (35 second cooldown) 3150
Edge of Night TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a mix of offense and defense. It provides bonuses to maximum health and attack damage, along with increased armor penetration to help you shred through enemy defenses. The "Annul" effect grants you a spell shield, blocking the next enemy ability. This spell shield refreshes when leaving combat with enemy champions, making the item a great choice for champions who need protection from crowd control and to engage in fights, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
Edge of Night — This item is perfect for champions who need a mix of offense and defense. It provides bonuses to maximum health and attack damage, along with increased armor penetration to help you shred through enemy defenses. The "Annul" effect grants you a spell shield, blocking the next enemy ability. This spell shield refreshes when leaving combat with enemy champions, making the item a great choice for champions who need protection from crowd control and to engage in fights, such as Ashe, Lux, or Morgana.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Serpent's Fang
Anti-Shielding +50 Attack Damage +10 Ability Haste
Stab: +15 Armor Penetration.
Shield Reaver: Dealing damage to an enemy champion reduces any shields they gain for 3s. Melee champions apply (10% of bonus AD + 40)% shield reduction, capped at 60%; while ranged champions apply (10% of bonus AD + 25)% shield reduction, capped at 45%. When you damage an enemy who is unaffected by Shield Reaver, all shields on them are reduced by the same values. 2800
Serpent's Fang TIPS: This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
Serpent's Fang — This item is perfect for assassins and champions who face enemies with a lot of shields. It provides bonuses to attack damage and ability haste, along with increased armor penetration, making it effective against well-protected enemies. The "Shield Reaver" effect allows you to reduce the effectiveness of shields gained by enemy champions, depending on your bonus attack damage, helping to quickly break through shields. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on shields for defense, such as Lux, Braum, and others.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Amaranth's Twinguard
In-combat durability
+60 Armor +60 Magic Resistance
Endurance: Gain 1 stacks of Endurance every 1 seconds while in combat with enemy champions (max 5 stacks). At maximum stacks, gain 20% size, 20% Tenacity, and increase Armor by 30% and Magic Resistance by 30% until out of combat with champion. 3100
Amaranth's Twinguard TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
Amaranth's Twinguard — This item is perfect for champions who spend a lot of time in the thick of fights and need extra durability and crowd control resistance. It provides bonuses to armor and magic resistance. The “Endurance” passive stacks up to five times during combat, and at full stacks you increase in size, gain enhanced tenacity, and receive bonus armor and magic resistance until you exit combat. This allows you to stay in the frontline longer and withstand enemy attacks more effectively. Due to its versatile utility, this item is one of the most popular defensive choices in the game and is used by the majority of tanks, fighters, and other classes.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Yordle Death's Dance
Delays damage taken +35 Attack Damage +40 Armor +15 Ability Haste
Dance: Champion takedowns cleanse Cauterize's remaining damage pool and restores 10% of your maximum health over 2 seconds.
Cauterize: 32% of all physical damage and magic damage received (12% for ranged champions) is dealt to you over 4 seconds as true damage instead. 3000
Yordle Death's Dance TIPS: This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
Yordle Death's Dance — This item converts incoming damage into a delayed effect, letting you stay in fights longer and smooth out damage spikes. It boosts your survivability with armor and ability haste, and successful takedowns cleanse the delayed damage while instantly healing you. — Perfect for bruisers and tanks who need to absorb bursts of damage and then quickly recover to keep fighting.
The Collector
Execute low health champions +45 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate
Killer: +10 Armor Penetration.
Death and Taxes: Dealing damage that would leave an enemy champion below (4% + 2% Critical Rate) of their max Health executes them, permanently increases the max Health percentage execution threshold by 0.1%, and grants 25 bonus gold.
Limited to 1 The Collector. 2900
The Collector TIPS: This item turns your auto‑attacks into a finisher: it boosts your penetration for shredding armor and automatically executes low‑health enemies, rewarding you with extra gold. — Perfect for marksmen and assassins who need reliable executes on vulnerable targets while snowballing their gold income.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death +40 Attack Damage +40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown) 3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Guardian Angel — This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.Summoner Spells
Flash (Teleport a short distance) and 
Barrier (Gain a shield) as your Summoner Spells.
Flash
Teleport a short distance forward or towards the aimed direction.
Cooldown: 150s
Barrier
Gain a shield that absorbs 120 (120–560 ) damage for 2.5 seconds.
Cooldown: 100s
Teleport
After channeling for 3.5 seconds, teleport your champion to an allied champion, structure, or ward (excludes areas in range of enemy inhibitors). You can only teleport to structures during the first 6 minutes of the game.
Cooldown: 150s
Runes BUILD
Fleet Footwork (Moving, attacking and casting builds Energy stacks. At maximum stacks, your next attack heals and grants increased Movement Speed.) as your keystone, followed by 
Gathering Storm (Damage output increases over time.), 
Coup de Grace (Increases damage dealt to enemy champions with low Health.) and 
Legend: Alacrity (Gains Attack Speed.) in the primary tree, as well as 
Bone Plating (Reduces incoming damage.) in the secondary tree. Below you can see possible options for replacing runes.
Fleet Footwork
Mobility, Heal
Moving, attacking and casting builds Energy stacks. At 100 stacks, your next attack gains Attack Speed, heals you, grants bonus Movement Speed. If the attack is again st a champion, it also restores Mana or Energy.
Bonus Attack Speed: 100%
Health Restore: 15-85 () + 30% bonus + 30%
.
Bonus Movement Speed: 20% for 1s.
When attacking a champion, restore 8% missing mana or 8% missing energy
.
When attacking minions or monsters, heals for 60% (Melee champions) or 20% (Ranged champions) of the original heal amount.
Gathering Storm
Increasing AD/AP
Every 3 minutes, gain increasing Adaptive or . Totaling: 2/5/9/14 or 4/10/18/28 based on game time.
Coup de Grace
Bonus Damage
When an enemy champion has less than 40% Health, deals 8% bonus adaptive damage.
Legend: Alacrity
Bonus Attack Speed
Gains 3% Attack Speed. Takedown monsters, enemy champions, or minions to gain up to an additional 20% Attack Speed.
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Situational Runes
Coup de Grace
Bonus Damage
When an enemy champion has less than 40% Health, deals 8% bonus adaptive damage.
Giant Slayer
Takedown high health champions
Deal bonus damage based on the enemy champion’s bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 bonus health.
Giant Slayer — The rune deals bonus damage based on the enemy champion's bonus health, up to 16% bonus damage when the enemy champion has 1600 or more bonus health. It is perfect for champions who face enemies with high amounts of health, such as tanks. The rune helps effectively break through high health opponents, making it an excellent choice for damage-focused champions.
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Sudden Impact
Bonus Damage
Damaging an enemy champion deals a bonus 10-80 true damage after using a dash, leap, blink, teleport, or when exiting stealth for 4s.
The damaging attack/ability gains bonuses at higher levels:
Level 5: Deal an additional 10 true damage.
Level 9: Deal an additional 20 true damage and gain 10% Movement Speed for 1.5s after dealing the damage.
Cooldown: 10s
Sudden Impact — The rune that activates after using dashes, teleports, leaps, or exiting stealth deals bonus true damage to the enemy. This mechanic enhances aggressive play by allowing fast movement across the map and delivering powerful strikes. At higher levels, it provides additional damage and movement speed bonuses, increasing mobility and effectiveness in fights. This makes it a great choice for champions who rely on mobility and want to enhance their attacks after quick movements or stealth.
Bone Plating
Block Combo-damage
When taking damage from a champion, the current and next 3 champion abilities or attacks against you and within 1.5s deal 30-60 () less damage.
Cooldown: 30s
Overgrowth
Bonus HP
When 2 minions or 1 monsters are killed nearby, permanently gains 3 max Health. Max Health can be increased indefinitely. Gains a bonus 3% max Health upon reaching 30 stacks.
Overgrowth — The rune increases your maximum health permanently with each nearby minion or monster kill. It is useful for most champions, including fighters, tanks, and junglers, who actively farm and frequently engage in fights. The rune helps improve survivability by stacking health over time, making it a great choice for champions who rely on increasing their maximum health for prolonged battles.Skills Order
(Q) FORMLESS BLADE
4s 30
Passive: Gains 35% of current Critical Strike Chance as Armor Penetration.
Active: Nilah cracks her whip-blade in a straight line, dealing 63 physical damage (10/15/20/25 + 90/100/110/120% ) to enemies hit. Every 1% Critical Rate increases damage by 1%.
After Formless Blade hits an enemy, Nilah gains 10% Attack Speed () and 125 bonus Attack Range. Her attacks also deal 100% physical damage to enemies in a cone for 4 seconds reduced by 80% against non-champion.
When Formless Blade is cast during Slipstream, Nilah leaves behind a wave that is sent towards her at the end of the dash, dealing the same damage to enemies hit.
Deals 25% damage to monsters.
(Q) FORMLESS BLADE
(W) JUBILANT VEIL
21/20/19/18s 45
Nilah envelops herself in mist for 1.75 seconds, during witch she gains 15/20/25/30% Movement Speed, reduces incoming magic damage taken by 25% and becomes immune to non-tower attacks. If there are allied champions nearby, the nearest allied champion gains the same effects, and the duration of the effects Nilah gained is extended by 1 second.
(W) JUBILANT VEIL
(E) SLIPSTREAM
18/16/14/12s 40
Nilah dashes forward for a fixed distance, dealing 82 physical damage (70/100/130/160 + 20% ) to any enemies that she passes through. Empowered attacks reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1 second. Cooldown is further reduced by 1 second after hitting a champion. Hitting any unit will also refresh this ability's cooldown.
Cooldown cannot be refreshed again within 10 seconds.
If no unit was hit, immediately enters cooldown.
(E) SLIPSTREAM
(R) APOTHEOSIS
80/70/60s 80
Nilah whirls her whip-blade, dealing 60 physical damage (60/120/180 + 140% bonus ) continuously over 1 second and reducing the enemy's Movement Speed by 10% for 3 seconds.
When keeping her whip-blade, Nilah also deals 125 physical damage (125/225/325 +120% bonus ) and pulls nearby enemies toward her. Nilah also heals herself and nearby allied champions by 20% of the damage (20% + 30% ) that she dealt to enemy champions. Excess healing is converted into a shield that lasts 6 seconds.
Non-champion units are healed by 10% instead.
(R) APOTHEOSIS
DUO NILAH Counters
We have prepared lists of champions that can really annoy you during a match with the game on the DUO NILAH. We have also prepared a list of champions with whom you will be comfortable being on the same team. These lists are relative and depend greatly on your level of play, the skills of your allies and opponents. Do not forget that each situation is individual!
Threats
Synergies
DUO NILAH Counter Items
We have prepared a list of items and spells that will help counter DUO NILAH in a given situation. Buy items wisely, only if it is really necessary for a specific situation!
Armor
Items that reduce Auto Attacks (AA) / Physical Damage.
Plated Steelcaps
Reduces Physical Damage +150 Max Health
+100% Health Regen +35 Armor +45 Move Speed.
Block: Reduces physical damage taken from champions by 7-10% (). 1350
Plated Steelcaps TIPS: These boots provide solid protection against physical damage, boosting your durability and movement speed. The “Block” passive further reduces incoming basic attacks and physical damage from enemy champions. — The perfect pick for tanks, bruisers, and supports who need to soak up auto‑attacks while staying mobile in fights.
Guardian Angel
Revives at death +40 Attack Damage +40 Armor
Resurrect: Upon taking lethal damage, restores 50% Health and 30% Mana after 4 seconds of stasis. (210s Cooldown) 3400
Guardian Angel TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who need a second chance in teamfights. It is especially effective against champions with high burst damage, such as Zed, Syndra, or Zoe, as well as against strong diving champions like Camille, Kha'Zix, or Lee Sin. The Resurrection effect allows you to return to the fight after taking lethal damage, restoring health and mana, giving you a chance to continue fighting and assist your team even in critical moments.
Randuin's Omen
Attack to heal from enemy Critical Strikes +400 Max Health +75 Armor
Countercurrent: When you are Critically Struck or take physical damage, gain 1 stack of Countercurrent. Each stack of Countercurrent grants 5% Critical Strike damage reduction. Stacks up to 4 times. Upon reaching full stacks, grants 20% bonus Movement Speed and slow resist equal to 20% plus 0.5% of bonus Health. 2800
Randuin's Omen TIPS: Randuin's Omen Attack to heal from enemy Critical Strikes +400 Max Health +75 Armor Countercurrent: When you are Critically Struck or take physical damage, gain 1 stack of Countercurrent. Each stack of Countercurrent grants 5% Critical Strike damage reduction. Stacks up to 4 times. Upon reaching full stacks, grants 20% bonus Movement Speed and slow resist equal to 20% plus 0.5% of bonus Health. 2800 Randuin's Omen TIPS: Pick the item if enemy team has a lot of physical damage, you need increased armor and you want to get an additional bonus to movement speed and resistance to slowdowns.. Effective against champions who deal consistent crit based damage like Jinx, Yasuo or Tryndamere.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Iceborn Gauntlet
Attacks create a slowing field +250 Max Health +50 Armor +250 Max Mana +30 Ability Haste
Spellblade: Using an ability causes your next attack within 10 seconds to deal bonus physical damage equal to (100% base AD + 25% Bonus Armor ) in an area. It also creates an icy field for 2 seconds that slows enemies inside by 30%. Armor increases the size of the icy field. (1.5s Cooldown)
Damage is reduced vs structures. 3100
Iceborn Gauntlet TIPS: This item greatly boosts your health, armor, mana, and ability haste, making you much tankier. After casting an ability, your next attack in an area deals bonus physical damage and creates an icy field that slows enemies inside by 30%. The field’s size scales with your armor. This makes the item a great choice for champions who want to combine high survivability with crowd control and extra AOE damage.
Dead Man's Plate
Increases Movement Speed +250 Max Health +50 Armor
Relentless: +5% Move Speed.
Momentum: Moving builds Momentum, granting up to 40 Move Speed at 100 stacks. Attacking removes all Momentum. Stacks decay when movement is impaired.
Crushing Blow: Attacks deal up to 100 bonus magic damage based on Momentum removed. Melee attacks with max Momentum slows by 50% for 1 second. 2800
Dead Man's Plate TIPS: This item provides a substantial boost to health and armor, and its “Momentum” passive builds movement speed as you move—up to a cap—until you land an attack, which then triggers “Crushing Blow”, dealing bonus magic damage based on the momentum removed and slowing enemies at full stacks. This makes it an excellent choice for tanks and bruisers who need extra mobility to engage quickly and sustain through fights. Tips: ideal for champions who need to close distance and absorb damage; pairs extremely well with Spellblade items (e.g., Divine Sunderer) for additional burst damage on engage.
Reduced 
Healing
Items with Grievous Wounds that can reduce NILAH Healing effects.
Ignite
Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 72 true damage (72–380 ) over 5 and applying 60% Grievous Wounds for the duration.
Grievous Wound reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects.
Cooldown: 100s
Executioner's Calling
Physical Damage reduces enemy healing +15 Attack Damage
Rend: Physical Damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds. Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Oblivion Orb
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +30 Ability Power
Cursed: Magic damage inflicts 40% Grievous Wounds to enemy champions for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 800
Bramble Vest
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +30 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an attack, deal 4 magic damage + 6% bonus armor to the attacker and inflict 40% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds if they are a champion.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 1000
Mortal Reminder
Armor Penetration (%) and reduced enemy healing +25 Attack Damage +25% Critical Rate +15% Attack Speed
Last Whisper: +30% Armor Penetration. Attacks that Critically Strike gain an additional 6% Armor Penetration.
Sepsis: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 3300
Mortal Reminder TIPS: This item is perfect for auto‑attackers who need to shred through armor and cut down enemy healing. It boosts your penetration to deal more damage against tanky targets and applies grievous wounds on hit, reducing all healing and regen effects. — Ideal against tanks and high‑heal champions, and for marksmen and auto‑attack fighters who need to pierce defenses and curb enemy sustain.
Chempunk Chainsword
Reduces enemy healing +250 Max Health +45 Attack Damage +15 Ability Haste
Punishment: Dealing physical damage to enemy champions applies 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2800
Chempunk Chainsword TIPS: This item is perfect for champions who face enemies with high sustain, such as Dr. Mundo, Soraka, and Yuumi, who have significant healing abilities. The "Punishment" effect applies Grievous Wounds, reducing the effectiveness of healing and regeneration by 50%, making this item effective against champions who rely on healing. It’s also useful against champions who rely on lifesteal, such as Aatrox, Darius, and Fiora, as it helps reduce the effectiveness of their healing.
Morellonomicon
Magic damage reduces enemy healing +150 Max Health +70 Ability Power
+7% Magic Penetration +20 Ability Haste
Affliction: Dealing magic damage to enemy champions inflicts 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 seconds.
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2500
Morellonomicon TIPS: This item is perfect for mages who need to reduce the effectiveness of healing and regeneration on enemies. It provides bonuses to maximum health, ability power, magic penetration, and ability haste. The "Affliction" effect applies Grievous Wounds on enemy champions when you deal magic damage, reducing their healing and regeneration effectiveness by 50% for 3 seconds. This item is especially useful against champions who rely on healing, such as Soraka, Dr. Mundo, and Vladimir.
Thornmail
Reflects damage and reduces enemy healing +200 Max Health +75 Armor
Thorns: When struck by an enemy champion's attack, deal 20 + 6% bonus Armor + 2% bonus Health magic damage to the attacker and inflict 50% Grievous Wounds for 3 second(s).
Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects. 2700
Thornmail TIPS: This item provides a large boost to health and armor, and its “Thorns” passive reflects magic damage when hit by basic attacks, applying Grievous Wounds to reduce enemy healing. It’s ideal against multiple auto-attack or strong heal champions, and helps you soak damage for your team. Pick this up when the enemy team has many auto-attack reliant champions (e.g., Yasuo, Tryndamere, Jinx) or heavy healing (e.g., Soraka, Vladimir, Samira), and you need to absorb incoming damage.
Cleanse or Block Spells
Items with ability or property to cleanse or block negative spells.
Stasis Enchant
Turn invulnerable
Stasis (Active): Become invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 seconds, but unable to move, attack, cast abilities or use items. (120s Cooldown) 1000
Stasis Enchant TIPS: This Enchant renders you invulnerable and untargetable for 2.5 s, but prevents movement, attacks, and ability or item use. Perfect for surviving critical moments against assassins and high burst damage.
DUO NILAH Strengths and Weaknesses
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DUO (Vamp) NILAH Build items and runes
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Wild Rift NILAH Ability and Tips
JOY UNENDING
FORMLESS BLADE
JUBILANT VEIL
SLIPSTREAM
APOTHEOSIS
(Q) FORMLESS BLADE
4s 30
Passive: Gains 35% of current Critical Strike Chance as Armor Penetration.
Active: Nilah cracks her whip-blade in a straight line, dealing 63 physical damage (10/15/20/25 + 90/100/110/120% ) to enemies hit. Every 1% Critical Rate increases damage by 1%.
After Formless Blade hits an enemy, Nilah gains 10% Attack Speed () and 125 bonus Attack Range. Her attacks also deal 100% physical damage to enemies in a cone for 4 seconds reduced by 80% against non-champion.
When Formless Blade is cast during Slipstream, Nilah leaves behind a wave that is sent towards her at the end of the dash, dealing the same damage to enemies hit.
Deals 25% damage to monsters.
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(W) JUBILANT VEIL
21/20/19/18s 45
Nilah envelops herself in mist for 1.75 seconds, during witch she gains 15/20/25/30% Movement Speed, reduces incoming magic damage taken by 25% and becomes immune to non-tower attacks. If there are allied champions nearby, the nearest allied champion gains the same effects, and the duration of the effects Nilah gained is extended by 1 second.
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(E) SLIPSTREAM
18/16/14/12s 40
Nilah dashes forward for a fixed distance, dealing 82 physical damage (70/100/130/160 + 20% ) to any enemies that she passes through. Empowered attacks reduce the cooldown of this ability by 1 second. Cooldown is further reduced by 1 second after hitting a champion. Hitting any unit will also refresh this ability's cooldown.
Cooldown cannot be refreshed again within 10 seconds.
If no unit was hit, immediately enters cooldown.
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(R) APOTHEOSIS
80/70/60s 80
Nilah whirls her whip-blade, dealing 60 physical damage (60/120/180 + 140% bonus ) continuously over 1 second and reducing the enemy's Movement Speed by 10% for 3 seconds.
When keeping her whip-blade, Nilah also deals 125 physical damage (125/225/325 +120% bonus ) and pulls nearby enemies toward her. Nilah also heals herself and nearby allied champions by 20% of the damage (20% + 30% ) that she dealt to enemy champions. Excess healing is converted into a shield that lasts 6 seconds.
Non-champion units are healed by 10% instead.
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Wild Rift NILAH Skills Combo
Nilah Q Flash All-in
Execution
This combo begins with your (Q) FORMLESS BLADE + FLASH mechanic and then turns into a great way to engage and burst down your enemies.
Use your (Q) + FLASH combo onto your enemy and then AA them quickly before using your (E) SLIPSTREAM and (R) APOTHEOSIS combo. After this, hit them with a few auto attacks then use your (Q) again to keep up the longer range. After than, AA them and (E) to finish.
Combo Video
Wild Rift NILAH Video
Watch here!Nilah is an ascetic warrior from a distant land, seeking the world's deadliest, most titanic opponents so that she might challenge and destroy them. Having won her power through an encounter with the long-imprisoned demon of joy, she has no emotions other than unceasing jubilation—a small price to pay for the vast strength she now possesses. Channeling the demon's liquid form into a blade of unparalleled might, she stands defiant against ancient threats long forgotten.