an honest question for riot

SwiftKitten88··1 votes·232 views

ok about 3 months ago Nidalee got a trap nerf so that her jungle wouldn't be so strong.

this worked

after that they nerfed her hp by 300 at lvl 18

and AFTER that they introduced cinderhulk. which pretty much knocked every nid out of the jungle becuase nid cant do anything vs tanks or burisers.

so here is my question

nidalee old traps before the nerf did a % hp damage.. this was previously capped at 150 damage max on monsters. WHY wasn't the 150 damage cap lowered?

why was her traps make to be worthless vs players too?

lets take a look at her trap damage now

lvl 1 traps 40 damage plus .2 ap

this combined with the fact that they are the easiest skill in the game to avoid makes no sense.. i dont diagree with the nerf to her jungle i just dont see why she was needlessly nerfed vs players on a skill that was already horrid vs players. when a solution was as easy as lowering a pre-existing damage cap on jungle mobs

im haven't done any research here but im pretty sure that is the weakest ap skill in the game. and if traps were ONLY vs jungle mobs i woulnt have a problem. i DONT want nidalee to be stronger in the jungle. i am just wondering why the traps were completely redone when the simplest solution of lowering the damage cap to 50 on monsters could have accomplished the exact same thing in the jungle without a entire redesign. and without make traps worthless vs players.

2 Comments

SwiftKitten881 votes

come on riot this is a serious question... i don't see ANY reason why her traps should be so worthless via players. the purpose of the nerf to to hit her JUNGLE. not her laning.

this nerf totally took support (who was already a pretty much worthless off meta pick), and totally screwed that over; and u also just removed her % hp right when you decide to make the tank meta.

im mean seriously. i understand she needed the nerf in the jungle, and i have no issue with that. but why the hits vs players? you already have to be an idiot to walk over a trap. and even when nid had% hp she still couldn't do shit vs tanks... (you know because they wouldn't step on the trap...

i DONT want nid to be stronger in the jungle, i just want to make it traps can do something other than be used for facechecking bushes.

ItsStout1 votes

I agree, and if any part of nid needed a nerf it WASN'T her traps.

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