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Looking for Help with Nidalee Jungle

Melkia21·5/31/2015, 3:33:01 PM·1 votes·538 views

I cant seem to get off to a good start with Nidalee. I don't know if its the order I'm picking my spells, items, or just bad play. I cant seem to kill anything w/o help and I have to B after almost every camp. I end up falling way behind and I'm level 10 or so before I'm of any use to people again. I usually throw spear, set trap, go cat and pounce, swipe, takedown. rinse and repeat as needed. but the first 3 or 4 levels wreck me so bad. I have jungles many other champs and have never felt this weak in the start of a game. I have tried starting with frog, blue, rock guy, nothing seems to matter. Any help on what I am doing wrong would be appreciated. Add me in game and we can do a couple games and Skype if that would be easier to show how its done. Thank you

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Kendra5/31/2015, 4:14:10 PM1 votes

Nidalee is squishy and therefore has a bit of a rough time compared to other sustain/tanky junglers. Just try to start whatever camp is closest to your bottom lane, either krugs or gromp depending on your team side, and don't be afraid to ask for a hard leash. Throw a q from max possible range, being sure to hit whatever monster creep is the biggest, auto attack them a couple times in human form, then when the root from your passive is about to run out r and do your cougar combo. You should be able to take a bottom side camp, bottom side buff and one more camp before backing, at which point you should be able to afford your Ranger's Trailblazer upgrade and never have to worry about dying to camps again.

Never go with any machete upgrade other than Ranger's Trailblazer. Chilling Smite may seem appealing but trust me, it's not worth the vastly superior sustain, and Nidalee's chase/burst is OP enough as it is.