Nidalee, the ongoing problem

absconded·8/22/2014, 7:33:34 PM·1 votes·1,175 views

Although i know some might agree, and there have been numerous posts on this subject, i just want riot to look at top lane AD nidalee for a second. She has decent range, an execute auto attack which would stack with trinity making it ridiculous, a long range poke, a heal, a 3 second jump that gets shorter if she kills something in the process and extra movement speed from hunt and bushes which can stack.. her build path counters all top laners that are attack damage because she can build iceborn gauntlet and destroy any AD top lane except garen. along with this any poke against her is useless cause of her heal, something needs to be done about this and soon aswell, because unless ur alistar or maokai or garen, top lane is unplayable

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Shrikesnest8/22/2014, 8:07:09 PM6 votes

-sigh-

Rule 1 of champ complaining: Just listing everything in someone's kit doesn't prove anything about whether or not they are OP or problematic.

I mean, Urgot is so OP. He has a damage reduction on all his attacks, a homing skillshot that applies his passive, a damage shield, a slow, AOE damage, armor shred, and one of the most powerful displacement effects in the game that also buffs his resistances. Nerf Urgot, pls!

redniwediS8/22/2014, 7:52:26 PM1 votes

People keep mentioning Garen, but I don't think most of them know why. Garen's W makes it so he can tank one of her combos, it does not keep him from being pushed out of lane and zoned from all minions. As picks go Garen is simply a bad pick against Nidalee, his passive would be useless and if she builds a single slow item he will never get near her on his own terms.

Trundle, Sion, or Mundo would be far better examples as they can all sustain against her harass and tank her burst.

Worgslarg8/22/2014, 8:35:16 PM1 votes

The problem is, and I will continue to say this in every single nid qq thread that comes up, that her roles are swapped. AD nidalee, who was intended as a bruiser, has the scaling of an assassin, even with tank items.

AP nidalee,who is supposed to be a burst mage/assassin, had enough problems applying the hunt in lane against any other assassin that she is unviable.

FyshinaTux8/23/2014, 12:19:06 PM1 votes

The issue, is that she builds AD but does magic damage...

We REALLY need to stop this. Yorick was hated because of it, I currently hate Nidalee because of it, they changed MF's ult to scale ONLY AP (yet it does physical damage??????) at some point, there's a whole slew of abilities on a whole slew of champions that have extremely bs scalings/damage type combinations, and they need to be normalized. I'm sorry, but building AD on someone and raping someone's face with magic damage doesn't make you "skilled". In this exact instance, it makes you pretty stupid to deal with since your autos will deal more damage, and your abilities will deal more damage of the opposite type, making it near impossible to fully itemize against.

Counter-play anyone?