Nilah: Fleeting copies and a growing champion

Nilah copies her first two Fleeting unit or spell plays each round. This loadout uses self-targeted champion spells to grow a protected attacker. It's a tall-champion engine, different from champion-creation or hand-discard builds; there's no single agreed loadout.

Chosen by the Stars

Fated, Augment
Empowered 10: Overwhelm, Regeneration, and Challenger.

Ally targeting and created-card plays build champion stats. Its ten-power threshold turns that scaling into combat reach and resilience; inspect the threshold before relying on those keywords.

Sentinel's Plate

Barrier When I survive damage, grant me +3|+3 and a random keyword.

The durable champion package supports repeated combat and survival triggers. Its additional effects follow the current relic text above.

Echoing Spirit

Game Start: Create 7 copies of me in deck. Champion Spells cost 1 less.

More champion copies improve access to the engine and its champion spell. Copies in hand become spells while the champion is on board; the spell discount makes repeated casts easier.

Use the draw tools to access Fleeting units or spells. At three stars the first two eligible Fleeting plays each round are copied; plan which ones use those slots rather than spending them accidentally on low-value cards. Extra champion copies provide more draw and champion-spell access.

Targeted buffs support the scaling relic, while the durability relic helps the champion survive. The champion’s direct card effect is not automatically a Skill, so a relic that buffs spell-and-Skill damage does not necessarily increase every piece of her card text.

A tall-champion line uses Formless Blade on Nilah herself when the resulting damage is survivable. This activates the survival-stat relic and the ally-targeting stat engine; use the accumulated keywords and stats for a finish.

Watch hand space and remaining deck cards. The two-star power recycles discarded cards and adds Fleeting draws next round, but excess draws can still burn useful cards. Choose the two Fleeting plays you want copied before playing cheap filler. Formless Blade can target your champion for survivable self-damage and survival buffs.

For this tall plan, The Grand General's Counterplan / Chosen by the Stars / The Berserker's Buckle also works. Echoing Spirit and Sentinel's Plate add discounted copies and a stronger survival payoff.

A different popular plan uses Oath of the Guardians with two Star Gem slots, drawing and duplicating Fleeting champions. A discard plan uses The Loose Cannon's Payload to set up next-round draws and Corrupted Star Fragment to consume spare units for board space. These change the win condition, and not all of them have this build's self-damage payoff.

Joy Unbound II

Each round, copy the first 2 Fleeting units or spells you play.

• Advice for Nilah in Path by u/nooby_dog2020, 2024-10-14, 4 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• Nilah Relics by u/bin581148, 2024-11-14, 5 points (observed 14 Oct 2026).
• Player-submitted builds, collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Supporting champion guide, collected 13 Oct 2026.
• Champion mechanics, LoL Wiki, checked 13 Oct 2026.