Nidalee nerfs have made ZERO sense for like a year now

viken·8/20/2016, 5:24:51 PM·2 votes·1,138 views

Nidalee's been queen of the jungle in both competitive and solo queue for what seems like forever now, even while eating nerfs over and over again. This sucks because none of the nerfs since season 5 work together cohesively to give her any weaknesses; it just makes her clunkier to play and doesn't change any of what makes her strong. Nidalee's strength is that she comes out of the jungle relatively healthy at level 4(full clear) pretty much like 30-40 seconds before the enemy jungler. That is near S2-S3 Udyr levels of ridiculous, and NONE of the nerfs have ever even thought about hitting that. Instead, the root on her passive got removed, Pounce/transform auto resets got removed, Spear cast time got doubled, Bushwhack vision radius got reduced(WTF?), all things that do not give her any meaningful weaknesses, and do not touch her overbearing strengths, either. They only make the champion feel weird. And here she is a year later, with just as high of a winrate and just as high of a pick rate as she's always had. It's high time to get nidalee in line with other junglers, especially now that worlds is coming up.

2 Comments

17968/20/2016, 5:33:40 PM1 votes

I dont main ADC at all, and I dont think Ive ever been scared to kill a nidalee when I do get stuck as adc.

I have never been scared to kill a nidalee as support

Obviously never as a tank top

Usually never as a mid laner (I take graves mid, lulz).

As jungle, I just find out what half of her jungle shes on, ward my entrance, if she tries to counter jungle me, I face roll her team, get towers.

I dont find her OP.