@Riot Balacne team: Is Nidalee being looking at gameplay wise?

metaworldpeace10··12 votes·667 views

I just pose this question because of how much she synergized with Ruineglaive. She's strong at all phases of the game and the amount of anger inducing that she causes is enough to drive anyone mad. I know that she has a couple of small nerfs headed for next patch, but these nerfs will not fix the gameplay problems that she possess. Here are the gameplay issues with her:

  1. Poke
  2. Mobility
  3. Assassin

She has enough poke damage and cooldowns (or lack thereof) to compete with Varus/Ziggs/Xerath, she has arguably the highest amount of mobility within a kit (Riven LeeSin give her a run for her money when it comes to mobility. She also has the Assassination power of somebody like Ahri, while Ahri isn't the best assassin, she's definitely tier 2. All while having the mobility and poke damage to avoid any possible engage. I dislike playing against her, not because I think she is straight up OP, but because she is broken by design. There are not enough options for me as a player in order combat vs the eternal siege war that she brings to the game. Banshee's Veil is my only option, and even then I feel helpless.

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HadesBlades6 votes

They are nerfing her Q, if you want to see balance changes go to S@20 :3 its a great site for pbe updates.

Fadedpf2 votes

Nidalee is overpowered. She is a form swapper which has a lot more front loaded power because of the lack of ultimate. This paired with her toxic play style of poke, heal, repeat until you can double jump in and get a fast kill is broken. She needs at least 1 more nerf to be some what balanced because her damage as an assassin and utility as a healer and poker is just down right stupid. This is also not even mentioning her cougar jumps ever 2 seconds.

LoL aint life2 votes

They just fucking need to make her cougar W a statis cooldown, so she doesnt benefit from CDR with it and her movement speed passive needs to be nerfed with bushes.

There, she's fine. You can actually catch her if she's out of position, but still can escape very well if she uses the bushes correctly and places lots of traps.

I don't care about her damage, since she has to go melee range to deal lots of damage now (they're nerfing the spear, so it's more dodgeable and deals less damage)

I don't care about her sustain, as it isn't very relevant and is very mana hungry for her early game, since she maxes it last.

I fucking care about her crazy mobility, because she can just 100-0 your carry with Q-CougarW-CougarQ and run away with 3 seconds Pounces and bonus movement speed on bushes/hunted targets.

I GANK LANES2 votes

engage nidalee force a fight shes useless

MohawkBird2 votes

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I GANK LANES1 votes

cool now it's a 4 v 5 if you can't take advantage of that then that's your problem

Hard4Hamsters1 votes

I'm thinking with the Q nerfs incoming, they are looking to make Nidalee "want" to follow up with Cougar form more for the execution. I think it still needs brought down a little bit, but this should bring her to a healthier spot somewhat. It's a max decrease in damage by 60 so they will probably be looking at reducing it a little further if she remains dominant.

Remlap12231 votes

All nidalee needs are mana costs on her cougar abilities. That's quite literally it. Maybe a higher cooldown on pounce when she hasn't marked someone. The Q nerfs are fine and all, but doesn't hit where her problems are. Her Q is arguably the least toxic thing in her kit (besides bushwack, which is pretty useless IMO).

Keevalroy1 votes

Ahri isn't even an assassin anymore. Riot was sure to do away with that when she could compete with Zed.

Jaygo411 votes

Give her cougar form a mana cost so that she has to decide which wall to hop, instead of prancing out of base and over every wall.

This wouldn't take AWAY her mobility, just not allow her to use it everywhere

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