I've given up on Nidalee ever being balanced
Seriously, every balance attempt has done nothing but shift power to another part of her kit but never fixes anything. We had AP builds chunking health, now we have spears plus takedown chunking EVEN MORE health than before thanks to Riot feeling like she needed a free long range dash on one of the highest mobility champs in the game so she can chunk health and get out like nothing ever happened. Come on Riot please.
is not a free win in lane anymore. More over, because her laning phase is actually weak versus many champs, and she scales poorly into mid game with most builds, her ability to dominate post-laning/pre-late has been seriously diminished.