i have still have yet to get a valid riot post about the nidalee trap nerf

according to riot the nerf nerf was intedned to slow her jungle clear speed.. which it did. and i have no issue with that.

the issue i have with it is it COMPLETELY GUTTED her traps vs players.

and what annoys me MOST about this change was that it was 100% unnecessary to do so.

nidalee traps already had a cap of 150 damage vs jungle mobs

if the issue was lvl 1 traps doing too much damage to jungle mobs. Why in the hell didn't you just lower the cap vs monsters? HOW HARD IS THAT?

nidalee with NEVER gets traps to level 2 until lvl 14. under ANY circumstance.

and its not like nidalee traps vs players was ever an issue. the player had to step on the trap and they don't immediately arm. at least in thier previous state nidalee traps would at least provide her some support on those high damage tanks that nidalee cant kill,

now her traps do nothing, NOTHING.

i played nidalee support in one game and thier leona would PURPOSLY step on the traps to deny me vision. i saw her walk on about 5 of them and not even take 200 damage, why would she care? is she walked on 5 of them and didn't even bat an aye at the damage. not even and adc is goign to bat an aye at 40 damage with a .2 ratio at lvl one traps that is weaker than than any auto attack in the game and it will stay weaker than any auto attack in the game until nidalee reaches LEVEL FOURTEEN becuase guess what? lets look at that math assuming the best case senario lets assume nidalee is full build at lvl 18 with lvl 5 traps and 800 ap (which she will NEVER reach)

trap sat lvl 5 do 200 damage + 20% ap 20% of 800 is 160 so thats 360 damage total for stepping on a trap.

do i need to point out whats wrong with that?

is there ANY other AP based skill in the game at lvl 18 with with 800 ap wouldn't kill ANY level 1 champ with zero items who is holding zero item. let alone a skill that they need to STEP ON?

now you don't really see nidalee going out of her way to use traps for damage.. you never did and you never really will unless she was trying to proc the old 35% armor and mr debuff or drop them under a 5k hp chogath with % helth . but at least make them so thier strong enough where people don't PURPOSELY step on them. is that too much to ask for?