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Dear Everyone Who Thinks Nidalee is Overpowered

Shirinui··4 votes·2,463 views

Her laning is fucking garbage and it's why she was forced into the jungle. She's fucking horrible in teamfight scenarios, is utterly destroyed by hard engage teams, gets completely fucked in all ins if you outplay the spear which is incredibly easy to dodge and is super squishy. She's extremely mana dependent(not sure why you'd think otherwise, her excellent clearing requires her to use her 3 human abilities which devour her mana) and has insane issues dealing with beefy teams, especially when you get the player that isn't a fucking idiot and builds mr item+warmog(bonus points if your jungler or support gets aegis). No safe waveclear, She has zero crowd control + peeling abilities and no actual way to engage fights. Her poke has been reduced severely(and as mentioned, is majorly cockblocked by a strong frontline) and her main damage output requires her to cougar.

In the end every salt thread related to Nidalee has just been a bunch of players bitching about shit that is flat out not true or highly exaggerated.

Nidalee is a problem atm, but for entirely different reasons that most of this playerbase doesn't understand how to abuse, its only because no jungler can match her early game gank/2v2 pressure if she lands her shit similar to jungle Aatrox in his prime combined with the fact that she outspeeds every jungle in clearspeed and movement, and even then she isn't exactly pick or ban. That's literally it. You hit one of those two things(early game damage/jungle clear) and Nidalee will be shit tier, and yet you think she "excels" at everything? ffs even her poke is garbage compared to Xerath half the damn time, and much harder to land! and only hits one target! and even has higher cooldowns!

At this point I want her nerfed - not because I hate playing against her - because its infuriating to hear you idiots complain and fabricate shit you know nothing about because "nidalee is unfun waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" even though practically every soloq stomper/competitive pick is much more frustrating to play against than her. God forbid you fucks learn how to outplay a champion who every aspect of their fucking kit can be outplayed, but then again that would require you all to actually learn from mistakes.

18 Comments

Wînter Fox4 votes

You have to realize most of the complainers just take a spear in the face, get leaped on, see a chunk of damage, and just start crying promptly afterward. That's all it is. They just want the spears to stop hurting them so they can go on to make #SilverBigPlays Anything that stops them from doing it must be gutted to uselessness. Same with Riven

Shirinui3 votes

I'm incredibly certain thats WHAT these threads are about, to be honest.

XxxLumberJackxxX3 votes

I wanted her urgotted so I see her on my team as often as I see urgots. Biggest problem with Nidalee is a good one destroys you and a bad or average one is useless all game. And I rarely get the good ones on my team

Hard4Hamsters1 votes

Hidden passive OP.

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

But wow, LCS were going crazy over her every game, but it's cool, I guess she sucks a lot in your opinion.

Shirinui3 votes

Where did I say she sucked?

I merely pointed out her obvious weaknesses. The daily salt threads everywhere are getting extremely tiresome.

BeatzBoyFTW2 votes

First, there's TL;DR for these type of "tiresome" things.

And second, sometime the things you say are considered "easier said than done". Such as, people will always rant on things like "Just stand behind a minion" til you realize you're playing Soraka, and all Nid does is wait for you to waste E, jumps in, Q at your face, then executes you with WEQ.

There are 2 types of Nid players: actual mains, & idiots who does not know how to handle/sustain their own champ's kits. Yes, people would know how to counter certain champs with certain tips & tricks, but do remember that even Nidalee mains themselves will always work around their weakness. Even I do this most of the time too, going as or against Sion top.

Abyssphere1 votes

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First, there's TL;DR for these type of "tiresome" things.

And second, sometime the things you say are considered "easier said than done". Such as, people will always rant on things like "Just stand behind a minion" til you realize you're playing Soraka, and all Nid does is wait for you to waste E, jumps in, Q at your face, then executes you with WEQ.

There are 2 types of Nid players: actual mains, & idiots who does not know how to handle/sustain their own champ's kits. Yes, people would know how to counter certain champs with certain tips & tricks, but do remember that even Nidalee mains themselves will always work around their weakness. Even I do this most of the time too, going as or against Sion top.

In that example, why on Earth did you use your E when Nidalee wasn't getting all up in your grill? Nidalee is the exact champ where you throw the silence under yourself when she pounces.

BeatzBoyFTW1 votes

Tell that to the other 70% of Soraka players who only plays her cz "Y restrict one to the meta so hard trololol"

FHMarshy1 votes

Her strength lies in the fact that she can pick a single target out easily, which is really an issue in soloq where team....well don't communicate as much.

Once she is fed, she could just clear a bush (pink or sweep) and camp there until an unsuspecting enemy be it a split pushing ADC or a warding Jungler or support shows up, spear them and proceed to kill.

Her poke potential is second to none in the game. Although she is mana dependent, but in late game, she can just spear from afar non stop.

She isn't OP, but she is a real threat for sure.

iEpicFailLoL2 votes

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Her laning is fucking garbage and it's why she was forced into the jungle.

Excellent Thesis, Well Delivered Statement.

Shirinui1 votes

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Excellent Thesis, Well Delivered Statement.

Hide behind minions, she can't spear you. Now she can't kill you unless you severely mess up. Great laning guys.

Thefriendlyorc2 votes

I just want visible spears. That bug is out of control

SleepyLionCub1 votes

Dear everyone who thinks nid isn't op.

Are you stupid? Or just trolling.

warpenguin5551 votes

i dont think she is overpowered, but i think shes better then you say

Shirinui1 votes

I don't think shes a bad champion. I'm saying she has weaknesses, and the reasons these Nerf Nidalee threads say shes overpowered for are simply incorrect.

SmknWdl1 votes

Nidalee is lame... easy to counter/fight. I just counter jungle all day as a tank jungle... She cant do a thing ^_^ Kitty doesn't like fire... -Shyvana

Fasmodey1 votes

LoL, comparing Xerath and Nidalee poke shows how much knowledge do you know about this game. First one is they dont have same style. Nidalee as poke power but it's not her main style while Xerath's is. Of course Xerath's poke will be more powerful. What do you expect? While she can escape, chase, healing and while she has duel power, utility and increable low cds, Xerath is not good as her.

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