Why is no one playing Nilah?
She has a 0.3% play-rate, even though she should be a „modern“ champion with her high mobility with the double dash and playmaking opportunities with her R combos.
Also she completly counters a lot of meta champs like Kai‘Sa (60% WR against her) and can go with pretty much any engage/enchanter support.
I think a lot of people don‘t know you have to max E first to unleash her full potential, stat- and mobility-wise it‘s way stronger than the classic Q max.
It feels REALLY REALLY ANNOYING to play Nilah against range. Even though she’s strong, the frustration you feel once you face Cait+Senna lane single time is enough to push people off the champion.
It’s a niche champion good into certain champs who rely on key auto attacks. E max loses out on wave clear and Q max for up time for csing especially under tower. She has two charges of E anyway. Suffers from Renata issue too. Goes 50/50 if support or ad knows their abilities. I play Renata some adcs don’t know her W. Same with Nilah some supports don’t know she can hop to allies or give them a half second dodge for autoes
Her Q is just a terrible design imo. It’s very easy to hit and can be proc’d on minions and has 100%uptime pretty quickly, so it never feels like the massive bonus stats are a reward, but rather her normal attacks and you are punished for ever messing up/running out of mana. Missing Q once and having no autos for ~3 seconds is incredibly frustrating. It’s another case like Ivern/Rell where she’ll never be popular, even when strong, but a mini rework to make her less frustrating to pilot would go a long way.