A small QOL tweak for nidalee

SwiftKitten88··3 votes·238 views

as a Nidalee main... as much as i would love to buff her.. she doesn't really need it.. and with worlds coming up now would probably be the worst time imaginable to do it...

however there is also a very small quality of life tweak that has annoyed the hell out of me for ages. yet hasn't been fixed

when u land a spear on a target, you get a "unit-targeted" pounce in can pounce in with. and nidalee's main combo is Q (spear), ulti (swap forms), W (pounce) and either E (swipe) or Q (takedown) to finish the target.

however takedown in an empowered auto attack that gets an +50 extended range. but it STILL acts like an auto attack.. as it will attack the closest target in range if not given a direct target. now MOST of the time there ARE no other targets for takedown to hit when you pounce in besides the enemy champion. but on those rare occasions when you pounce on soemone who is in a minion wave, or pounce at them under their turret. takedown will sometimes choose to attack the "closest" target. which end up being a minion or a tower.. which nearly always means death for you

now... i just landed a spear on a target.. i just clicked DIRECTLY on them with a unit targeted pounce... would it be too much to ask that takedown would prioritize hunted targets in range unless i click DIRECTLY on a different target.

there is nothing more aggravating than dying to a enemy champ you are about to kill because takedown wanted to hit that minion or tower.

and since the ONLY time this even occurs is WHEN there are a bunch of other close by targets. its not like easy to click directly on them after a pounce.

this issue could be solved with a single fix by making takedown prioritize hunted targets.

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WindLord70701 votes

and she needs some changes to help her lanning out

SwiftKitten881 votes

well yeah... but i cant see them doing that right before worlds...

for her laning to ever really be effective she is going to NEED a full pounce reset back, and her % hp traps back (with cap vs monster reduced from 200 to around 50) (which they could have just done in the first place instead of removing the %hp... but lets not get me started on that again)

while i can easily see them giving the % hp back without breaking her.

i can't see them giving her her full reset back.

having a full reset in the jungle is what made her clear completely insane.

and unless they remove resetting from pouncing to a hunted jungle mob and only give them reset when pouncing to champions or when killing a unit with pounce (which is why she used to to CS quickly for free if she had an lane advantage and could risk going into kitty form as a squishy AP). (i cant really say "assassin anymore as she no longer has a way out of a fight without a full reset..)

i cant see them giving her her full reset back. it WAS the full reset that made her able to lane, because if you could get a lead where they couldn't punish your for using kitty for to CS.. you could do it for free and quickly with the pounce reset for each minion you killed. reducing her reset by 70% down to its normal value with each lvl of her ultimate was the final nail in the coffin for her laning.

but like i said.. unless riot makes it so you cant reset pounce on hunted jungle camps... (which does actually seem like it shouldn't be tremendously hard to code) they CANNOT give her her full pounce reset back without completely and utterly breaking her jungle.

so yeah while i agree both are needed and both CAN be achieved properly and without breaking her if riot REALLY wanted to do it... they CLEARLY don't want to do it.

so i decided to pick something that they actually had a chance of doing.

oh and they also could easily give her back her 5 second cooldowns without even remotely breaking her... but again... worlds is coming up. i don't see them doing that..

SwiftKitten881 votes

actaulyl i justed looked at nid's stats again today.

while they are certainly BETTER than thier prevoius seaosn 7 stats.

im still surised to see that he ranks.. 3rd to last place in junglers gold and below.

i mean thats not too unexpected but even in diamond +

she ranks 24 global far behind "skill-intensive high elo champs" like Amumu Warwick Rammus Nunu ... [slayer-jinx-unamused]

this thread wasnt initially suppoest to be about "buffing" her.... just gibing her that QOL change.

but honestly im kinda leaning towrd she may needs some more buffs...

i mean she is a high skill-cap champion... i feel like she could do with at LEAST enough love to get her so she can be decent in HIGH elo.

i mean whats the point of mastering a high skill champsion designed for high elo.. when Amumu Rammus Warwick

and twenty three other champions sit higher than her on the list.

as for a refernce for my data https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/jungle/diamond/by-winrate

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