League of Legends is still evolving as Nilah gets ready to shatter the community's accepted meta. The new bot lane carry is a skirmisher who gets up in her opponent's face and blows it up, rather than just being a standard marksman.
The latest bot laner in League of Legends, Nilah, possesses a unique style of play. First of her kind, the "Joy Unbound" performs her duties up close with melee strikes as opposed to ranged marksmen.
According to League of Legends lore, a warrior from a faraway land named Nilah, the Joy Unbound, is on a mission to take on the monsters of the deep. She is an epic, monster-slaying hero who is writing a legend of her own, day by day.
On Summoner's Rift, Nilah is a bot lane skirmisher who ramps up like a ranged AD carry but later has all the advantages (and some disadvantages) of melee champions. She is the first of her kind to be dedicated to the role.
For those who want to master the Kathkanese skirmisher, Sportskeeda has the perfect Nilah build, runes and strategies right here.
Riot is experimenting with fusing roles and champion archetypes with Nilah, providing players with other ways to dominate the game.
She is weak in the early stages but scales aggressively into the late game, much like an AD carry. This is especially true for a melee champion who depends on her squad to perform some labor-intensive tasks. But there may be no champion better at wiping the floor if she can get her way in a fight.
She does have some resources in her arsenal to get through that early game. As she advances through levels, her passive, Joy Unending, increases the healing and shielding she receives whilst reducing some of the shared experiences lost by killing minions close to allies.
Her W, Jubilant Veil, can rescue
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