A player said they have been told by rioters with the real power to make changes that nidalee would sooner get a rework rather than any changes to help her out in lane. Is this true? If it is can you tell the community? We have been trying for so long to get lane nidalee back but she is always forgotten and ignored. It's really sad that we can't enjoy this champion like we could before patch 5.2. Please fix nidalee.
...What would you suggest to make her stronger in lane without making her jungle even stronger? [sg-ahri-2]
Riot could add % penetration to traps to help lane Nidalee without buffing Jungle Nidalee very much.
Riot no longer holds champions to the same standard they did when they reworked Nidalee in 4.10
Lane Nidalee was fine (maybe a tiny bit too strong) until 5.2 when they broke jungle Nidalee which already had a 50% winrate by making hunt proc on camps.
5.2 through 6.21 Nidalee received 15 nerfs and 1 buff because Riot would not let go on the 5.2 change.
All of those nerfs is what effectively killed lane Nidalee, most of the nerfs were arguably not needed if the 5.2 change was dropped.
I feel like Nidalee has too much power budgeted into diving and executing. You can't even deal 500 damage to a tank with 3k HP with a max range spear.
There was once a HUGE Nidalee fanbase, now it is about 1/10 in the size since all of the changes Riot has put forward alienated the original Nidalee players.
If Riot wants to end the downturn League of Legends has been experiencing for a few years now, they need to revert changes they made years ago that made players quit the game.
All of my friends have quit League of Legends, or still play but would not recommend the game to others because Riot has been shoving and cramming so much crap into the game since Season 3.
The main problem with current Nidalee is a 700 range pounce that locks you onto the hunted target, and Nidalee has too much damage loaded into executing targets.
This means when Nidalee gets ahead, she can't be stopped. She jumps across and 1 shots anybody who gets the hunt on them which isn't fair to the enemy nor fun for the Nidalee player.
Nidalee would be more fun to play against and to play if you had to land multiple spears instead of 1 spear/trap and then flying into them.
Nidalee was never intended to be a strong laner. That said you can still pull it off okay if you know what you're doing.
Nidalee is fine o.O
I know she was a decent laner long time ago, She had R on 6 lvl, her Q was overall the strongest long range skillshot. but look at her design lmao, it just asks for being playable in jungle :D, she is a bush girl.
I would like to see Nidalee return to lane. Even if it's support Nidalee, but preferably would like to see AD Nid Split pushing games, and AP Nidalee nuking spears, they are a lot easier to dodge now.
You aren't from patch 5.2 because if you were, you would know that nidalee was still very playable in toplane even tho she was nerfed at 4.17 (giant gut on her lion q) and all they did at the patch you say, was to make her jungling just a bit more playable (added root if I remember correctly). Now, what this thread is about? Making her stronger in lane? She is viable in lane but it is not in meta right now. Remember at the tank meta, where we saw nidalee in toplane again? Yeah, she was as strong as she was left to be., I don't know why you created this thread when you don't even know what has happened to nida.
Nid main here (400K+)
She doesn't need a fucking rework or any design change to her abilities, what she does need is bug fixes. Her spear often likes to visibly go through targets, and sometimes when you pounce within powered pounce range it doesn't work (quite rare but it happens, or might just be me). Maybe a minor visual update to some of her skins/base human skin.
Shes god tier rn in the jng lmao
The invisible spear glitch is no longer (existed seasons 1-4) and the spear is easier to dodge now. It would make sense to add some damage back to it and take away from Cougar.
I would forget about any changes, my guy. Not likely Riot would do anything about it, anyway. Though, that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy what you enjoy. Just play her how you wanna play her, where you wanna play her. Even if it feels sucky here and there. Albeit, I don't advise trying it in ranked, along with a lot of other niche play styles/picks, considering ranked is more about winning more often than not lol. At least when you're aiming for something specific. In other words, just enjoy the game for the fact that you're playing your favorite champ. I mean, you're supposed to enjoy a game, right? There's no drawback for your enjoyment, either. Unless, your intent is to grief, which I hardly think will be the case. But like I said, just play to play, man. Even if it's not as viable. That's usually the mindset that I personally go with when playing League, even Pokémon. It's about the journey, not the destination, and all that junk! [poppy-wink]
U serious? U want nid broken to make her a laner? Lol. Let it go, that was along time ago, and a completely different nidalee.
Any meaningful changes would destroy your current reasons for playing her.
Nidalee needs her lane identity back, Nidalee is my most played champion and highest mastery points. If she could resemble any more like Old Nidalee that would be better than her diving across half the screen to 1 combo you.
done even came with a new model and based on the pre rework version
