after nidalee rework she has been an "assassin"

SwiftKitten88··3 votes·585 views

and i have always called her that since then but frankly when you compared divers to assassins

divers have a way to get in... but no reliable way out, and because of this... they are generally tankier and have come hard CC and are designed to stay in the fight afterwards Example: Diana passive for autos.. CC and a shieldXinZhao LeeSin

assassins have a way in... AND a way out... but generally lack forms of CC (with some exception) Example Zed /Leblanc

however.. ever since the change to make nidalee's pounce reset from of 70% second on reset on pouncing to a hunted target or monster/minon kill (if the unit does to punce itself) .. up to 6 seconds and then down to 40/50/60/70% based on level of ultimate (yes u get "ultimate" at lvl 1... so there are four)

until you really get to lvl 16.. you dont HAVE an escape...

so not only are you the ONLY "assassin" that has to land a skillshot to go in. (yes i obviously i know about traps... trust me those do NOT count on 99.9% of occasions.. i get to pounce in for a kill on a trap proc like once every 200 nid games or so.. it donest happen)

you also are the have no reliable way out. (until lvl 16, and even the its still only a 375 unit dash, Thresh has an auto range of 450 units...)

so.. i kind of understand riot no longer caaling her an "assassin" because she really doesn't get the benefits of one anymore

yet at the same time she cant be played in lane anymore (in a viable way) and even her jungle is WELL below average not even reaching 49% until plat+ and only goes past 50% in diamond+ (the top 2% of players) while for the majority of player she sits at 46-48% winrate data here (i am using NA data) https://www.leagueofgraphs.com/champions/stats/nidalee/na/jungle/platinum

I'm not asking for buffs, or changes. In fact, I'm not even sure why i am making this post. i just feel bad that my main has been kicked out of her lanes and being a mage.. and has now been kicked out of being an assassin.

WHY DOES NO CLASS OF CHAMPIONS WANT ME??? item 3070 Nidalee item 3070

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ChuShoe2 votes

come weep with me fellow nidalee main.

Rewt1 votes

Nidalee is a weird champ in that due to her kit being so based on a difficult skillshot, if she is too strong she is a monster. but if she is too weak she is useless, Its just such a hard champ to balance

SwiftKitten881 votes

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Nidalee is a weird champ in that due to her kit being so based on a difficult skillshot, if she is too strong she is a monster. but if she is too weak she is useless, Its just such a hard champ to balance

well the problem with that is that it mean her VERY team reliant

for example.. in lcs last years even with winrate sub 50% outside of the top 8% of players (aka bronze- gold)

in LCS she was 100% pick ban, becuase nidalee herself has zero form of CC during a gank.. it has to be completely set up by her laner. and obviously in lcs with the best players in the world, on 2 ms ping, with voice chat who have played togther for hundreds of games..

they cant set up a gank so 95% of the time.. her spear is GOING to land

the thing is you CAN'T balance her under the assumption it its ALWAYS going to land..

you cant balnce her under the assumption that your GOING to have a team that can do with the best players in the world can do.

nidalee is very good in 1v1 vs squishies.. (or she used to be before ADC's should kill her before even even got her takedown off after she landed the pounce but thats an adc issue) but for her ganking pattern as a jungle she is EXTREMELY team reliant..

if she messed up the gank she gets nothing.. zero damage is done and you gave away your location, which relieves pressure on other lanes, who can now go aggressive vs your allies.

nidalee is either hit or miss.. quite literally based on IF the spears hits or misses.

JustJayson1 votes

I really miss top lane split push nidalee

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