Do you know which are the five best supports for Nilah for LoL season 14? Here are our picks and reasonings.
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The best supports to play with Nilah in LoL
Nilah was released during the summer of 2025 and immediately people realized she could be another overpowered champion. Despite all the expectations, though, Nilah failed to become a popular ADC choice, due to her need for great coordination with her own allies to extract her maximum potential.
The biggest and most notable strength Nilah has is her passive, which grants additional experience when sharing minions. This effect allows her to gain substantial XP leads throughout the game, as she’s only one of the few champions that can keep up with the solo laners.
That being said, Nilah needs synergizing supports to make her kit work. With its short attack range as well as a kit based on staying close to the enemies, not having determined supports will put her in big danger. For that reason, we have compiled a list of the best supports you should be playing with Nilah. Let’s see the key strengths of each unique bot lane duo.
Senna – The best enchanter support
While Nilah works great with enchanters, there is a champion out there who can deal damage and provide heals and shields: Senna.
The best thing about Senna is that she can partially fix Nilah’s main weakness by helping her with the wave management. Enemies will often look to abuse Nilah early on when she needs to farm minions, potentially losing lots of HP to do so.
Senna helps her with that while also guaranteeing great late-game scaling thanks to Nilah’s passive which grants additional experience to level up the abilities. Additionally, Nilah will increase Senna’s healing and shields, making her even more effective.
Yuumi – the Senna alternative
If you have Nilah on your team, you can always go for Yuumi as her bot lane partner.
Nilah’s second effect on her passive is the ability to get extra shields and heals after a brief delay. So is there any better champion for Nilah than Yuumi?
The magical cat not only empowers her ally with shields and heals, but Nilah also gets all the extra bonuses coming from Yuumi’s kit. This means, in other words, that the two have complementary kits, made specifically to take advantage one of another.
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Yuumi can heal and shield permanently at all times, and by staying attached to Nilah, the ADC will never have to worry about dying or not having shields to protect her. Unless Nilah is caught off guard, the chances of her dying are going to be low, considering the effect of her Jubilant Veil (W).
Their 2v2 early might not be great, but even if this duo dies once or twice, Nilah’s passive will always make sure you can stay even or ahead in experience.
If you want to climb soloQ, Yuumi will always be the best choice for Nilah. It requires good coordination to play this duo, but the results are going to be great.
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Rakan – The perfect engage setup
To make up for the short range Nilah has, she usually might need someone that can dash in and find quick engages to surprise the opponents. And among the various engage supports, Rakan is probably the best one at doing so.
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Even though they will struggle in the first few minutes of the game, Rakan excels at making responsive engages from afar, allowing Nilah to quickly follow up with her own abilities.
If the enemies don’t pick lane bully bot lane like Caitlyn or Draven, Rakan and Nilah are definitely a combo you should consider, especially if you have more setup coming from other allies on your team. It requires a good level of coordination and mechanics, so don’t jump into ranked games immediately without trying it first.
Pyke – One of the best engage supports and Thresh alternative
If you’re looking for another engage support option aside from Thresh, we recommend playing Nautilus.
Similar to his counterpart, he offers great engage potential, with a much bigger focus on aggression thanks to the higher damage. This gives Nilah stronger chances of connecting the combos and finishing him off enemies. Also, Pyke is much more slippery when it comes to his overall mobility, allowing him to find better engage angles and apply crowd controls with Q and E.
There is a trade-off, though. Pyke essentially only has one mode and that is to go in. If you need some level of disengage, then Thresh is probably a more balanced pick. Look at the matchups and the overall team compositions before making this choice.
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Soraka – The Yuumi alternative
The last support for this list is Soraka, which is the second-best choice when it comes to enchanter supports for Nilah. While Soraka doesn’t provide shields, she can heal up Nilah a lot more than Yuumi does. If Yuumi is banned during champ select, this is the champion to pick.
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The main issue with this bot lane duo is their early game since they will have little to no agency within the laning phase. It’s quite easy to get poked and harassed by the enemies and there isn’t much you can do about it. You have to resist the aggression and once both you of get some items and experience, then you can start trading harder.
It’s necessary to have good setup somewhere else in the team comp, but Soraka at least will make sure Nilah can fully utilize her combos in the middle of the fights.
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