Does Nidalee need a nerf?

Cloud273··4 votes·1,069 views

I admit the rework made her pretty OP, and now her ban rate is at almost 60%. I don't remember who said this, but someone on the forums once that anyone being banned more than about 25% of the time isn't a healthy champ. What do you think? Is Nidalee balanced or should she be nerfed a bit?

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Leti the Yeti3 votes

nidalee's like blitzcrank dont be like "oh just stand behind minions" "oh just dodge her spear" people dodge blitzhooks too ever seen what happens when he hits one? not fking pretty you better have a 100% dodge rate

Nidalee's kinda like that... dodge 9 spears but if she lands one on you, you better heal fast or recall cuz you're gonna die if a 2nd spear hits you -. - or if she has ignite, then you just de she doesnt have to accumulate damage by spamming like for example sona or ziggs the impact of just landing 1 is so immense ;l

well by that definition blitz must be OP too rite? lol nope Blitz actually needs back up to kill targets he pulled, his mana pool doesnt last anywhere near as long as nidalee's range is far inferior.. CD longer... you get the point yeh?

when I look at all these champs who has such immense pressure built into 1 skill, they tend to have trade offs of some sort ;l nooot nidalee fast as fuq, heals like fuq, bursty as fuq, geezus..

Thresh Outta Fux2 votes

Nerf all champions with "Lee" in their names. +1

georgiotatos1 votes

she has high no manacost mobility and burst, free wards, strong poke, e heals almost as much as soraka last hitting zoning and dodging is easy with w resets , toxic playstyle ,throw 10 spears in a tf, 1 hits and its either a 4v5 or free dragon, better nerf Kassadin

RogueWill1 votes

When you play against nidalee you gotta play aggressive. She has so much built into her spear that unless you can dodge every single one of them you are a sitting duck Her heal is rather weak early game and really not mana efficient so if she spams the shield she won't be able to spear, if you provoke trades chances are she will have to recall pretty often (proven you don't run out of mana first). Her short range trades aren't high unless you have the hunted debuff so melle champions with gap closer have better chances if playing aggresive

TheI3igDaddy1 votes

Short answer: Yes

Long answer: She fucking needs a nerf somewhere, because she's still a retarded champion post-rework.

Give her cougar skills mana costs, for starters, it's cute that in Cougar form, with her passive, she can kite and chase with no issue in the jungle, with manaless Pounce spam every 4 seconds. Oh yeah, and let's make the Pounce range increase dramatically against Hunted targets, because that's fun to play against said no opponent ever.

And of course we have the AP heal and attack speed steroid that makes Top Nidalee near immovable in lane against any melee champ, while she drops towers really goddamn fast.

This champ is a cancer 5x more than Lee Sin.

NoMonku1 votes

I feel she is too strong. Her rework into making her a jungler is very annoying. I guess it is better for her to be there because jungler income is a lot lower then lane(she is gold dependent imo), but since she can easily 1v1 almost all the champions atm in the jungle when she lands a spear I find her incredibly oppressive. I feel atm her only "tradeoff" or weakness as a jungler is that if she doesn't get kills early, she starts to fall off. I feel that when she is picked, though, teams will run disengage/poke comps, so I feel she needs to be toned down.

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