Nidalee is banned in over 75% of all ranked games

She's also got nerfs incoming...

Besides, now that champions like Kassawin are gone, SOMEONE had to fill in the void left by him riftstumbling out of his spot in the ban rankings.

this is not uncommon

Not because riot is bad, but because there are so many champions that one champ being super gay at any given time is highly likely. Someone is always going to be the most banned/

Tbh ppl bitch about balance alot but if you compare the amount of champs you can play with success in ranked to any other game with character choice, riot is at the top % wise and number of characters wise.

They didn't buff her, they just made her jungle-viable, and that lead to crazy stuff because apparently she's amazing at the jungle. Incoming nerfs - hold your horses. 's about to make friends with

Better nerf Sona.

Eh. Nidalee is only strong because she can be decent in the jungle. Most people don't know how to ward anymore and rely on ONLY using their trinkets. If you actually look at the global banrates in Gold+ (Which in most areas that aren't NA is actually good), Nidalee is sitting around a 30ish % with Kat, Zed, LB, J4, Vi, and Liss all sitting at 40-60% ban rates. Nidalee is at 31%...

If people warded the small bushes between mid and dragon, that tiny little nothing of a bush, they could see Nidalee coming from a mile away and know to stand closer to minions to avoid spears so she can't initiate. No spear, no jumping in. This of course is different if the enemy laner has CC and they bait you into being stupid so you eat the CC and promptly eat the spear because you're CC'd. Her Q just needs to be toned down in damage over range with a compensation of making its hitbox not suck. Hah.

Source is of course the more accurate website, http://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/by-banrate

Hey, its better than it was before.

I remember sometime in season 3 (I think it was season 3) where both Kassadin and Nunu both had 90% ban rates.

In other words, Nidalee having a 75% ban rate is a big improvement.

Mainly because she's a good jungler now, I take it.

I hate to say this, but I'm actually glad that Nidalee is being played there.

Take in mind that I hate this fucking champion, hate. But I figured, 'hey, if she's a cougar / human hybrid that lives in the fucking jungle, shouldn't she be there instead of literally everywhere else?' And now she finally is in the jungle, but she's still a mess balance-wise. I just want her to be toned down, but I do not want her removed from the jungle; it actually fits her character.

She is the number one ban because Fizz got completely changed. She will be nerfed soon enough if her ban rate does not fall.

http://www.lolking.net/charts?region=all&type=champion-winrate&range=monthly&map=sr&queue=5x5&league=challenger

Look 0.4% of popularity of Quinn and a 90% win rate in Masters+ 5v5. I thought Rito cared about the LC$.

obviously silver III knows how to balance better than proffesionals that balance for a living.

anyway, she has nerfs incoming so its beside the point.

Better nerf Kassadin.

I feel like Riot right now are the embodiment of the slowpoke meme.

Ya gut Nidalee. She's not a fun champion to play against and she's surely not fair. I despise the fact that a champion like her can deal so much poke damage, all while being able to heal off any poke she gets hit with, all while being mobile enough to avoid any type of engagement. She's boring to watch in the LCS, she's frustrating to play against the minute you are not a lead. She can siege for days and you can't do anything about it.

With a Nidalee on the map, you're always in danger if you're 50% health or lower, whereas if she's in that position, she just hops into cougar form and hops, hops, hops away.

75% isn't bad. I remember Yasuo and Kass being worse.

Dont worry m8.. Soon her traps wont ge able to one shot penta kill anymore like they do now

Better nerf Kassidin and Veigar

They designed her passive to seemingly want to push Nid into landing a spear/trap then diving in and using her low cooldown no cost cougar abilities to fight enemies. They forgot to really nerf her retarded spear damage though, so most Nids will just stand back chucking spears chunking people for 30% of their hp constantly. Best case scenario she dives in to use her execute after landing a few spears from the other side of the planet.

Keep up the good work Rito.

Well, that is the logical outcome from a champion with high damage, heals, and mobility. Nidalee was bad enough with ult-level damage on a max distance Q, but now her spears can turn invisible halfway through with the Headhunter skin.

It is understandable why people don't want to put up with invisible Nid Spears.

The thing that annoys me the most is that Nidalee is OP again. Like how many times are you going to tweak her, make her OP, then nerf her her, then tweak her again. So much time wasted trying to fix one champ while there's so many that need attention.

well, that's what happens when they give a champion a kit that is that overloaded.