i understand that she could jungle...

SwiftKitten88··1 votes·525 views

but lets think about this for a second... BEFORENidalee had her hunted proc on monsters

she had a 50% win rate in top AND mid she was a pretty bad support pick but still viable in unranked game

thats 2 VERY viables roles BOTH blanced and a third role which was kinda "meh" but doable

then riot decided to let nidalee jungle.

and i dont know how i can stress this enough.. ALL they did to let her jungle was let hunted proc on mobs.

no changes to her damage VS players in ANY way.

NONE her damage was not buff and in fact hadn't had ANY for SEVEN months before that change to allow jungle mobs to be rooted.

so then nid could jungle.

now again i understand there was a few bugs with her initial jungle release and that the % hp needed to be removed on monsters.

but from that point on i have been clueless was to why riot has been nerfing nid the way she had been nerfed.

again ZERO DAMAGE changes... the ONLY thing that changed is she can clear the jungle.

the trap change to lose % hp vs players totally removed any viability traps had and totally cut support nid away. and greatly hurt top and mid nidalee (whily only correcting issues that could have been fixing by lowering a cap already in place (its was capped at 200 damage on mosters, they could have lowered that to 50)

the hp change again hurt mid and top nidalee. and did nothing to stop jungle nid... (becuase u know she has a heal... and if your not an idoit your not going to die to jungle mobs)

then the BIG issue hit when cinderhulk first came out and tanks and bruisers (all which which counter nid was all meta)

then you add runeglaive.

now at the time i didnt say anything becuase u know i didnt want more nid nerfs... but honestly. the BIGGEST problem nid had in the jungle was she was too mana heavy.

so what do u do.. you add runeglive will pretty much gives her INFINITE MANA

and guess what happens? she see her being a top teir jungler with a 56% win rate

so you threw come more nerfs until nid has a 47% win rate in the jungle and is barely a viable pick anymore.

all that being said.. I REALLY DONT CARE ABOUT NIDALEE'S JUNGLE

what i CARE about is that in your efforts to make "jungle" nidalee balanced

you let MID nidalee drop below 40% (aka she is in DEAD last place in mid lane now) top nidalee isnt even ON THE CHARTS anymore. and support nidalee is unheard of.

all this happened to a champion THAT WAS BALANCED!!!!

so here is my suggestion.. REVERT EVERY CHANGE made to nidalee from 5.2 and onwards (so she no longer has the hunted proc vs monsters) aka complete revert back to 5.1 nidalee (when she was LAST in a balanced state, and how she sat for 7 months before the 5.2 change screwed over everything)

and THEN lets see how THAT (balanced) nidalee does in the current jungle. AND THEN we can discuss changes IF ANY need to be made.

becuase YOU CANNOT balance nidalee in her current state.

i will take 2 viable roles (and one "meh" role) on nidalee over ZERO viable roles.

becuase a 39% win rate on mid (her main role she had for 2 years) is NOT acceptable

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BluePolarizer1 votes

this shit happened for Kassadin and its gonna happen for any champion that falls out of favor.

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