I think nidalee needs a buff

Don't get me wrong, I know a lot of people hate her (but less than teemo), but a 43% win rate she's a bit weak ATM.

I think part of that was the runeglaive change in 5.14, that seems to be the patch that hurt her a little too much. Why? Probably because the needed nerfs to runeglaive's pvp potential was something she was dependent on because magus is no longer a thing. She's not going tank or AD. I also don't see her going devourer.

No I'm looking at her mid win rates and they aren't that good as well. In fact, it looks like the jungle nidalee is keeping the mid verison afloat. In the jungle she's doable at 47% but in lane she drops like a rock to 40%. That's just not an acceptable win rate for someone who is supposed to be an AP mid. Yes, yes I know win rate isn't everything. However at 40%, you know something is going pretty wrong.

So what are my thoughts from using champion.gg stats.

1. Midlane nidalee starts morellos and maxes Q first. This suggests that her spears are still a core part of her build playstyle. For most people, hitting the spear consistently and having it do decent damage is hard to master. The fact that her 2nd real item is a luden's cements this fact. Suggestion: buff her spear a little. Maybe lower the mana cost a little because you know 90% of spears thrown will either be whiffs, hit minions, or are closer range shots.

2. The higher winrate jungle nidalee starts runeglaive and then goes RoA. This suggests a little bit of tank is helping her win, but still not at an acceptable rate. However she can't build much in the way of tank because she's an assassin. Suggestion: see if RoA or Rylais is good on mid nidalee with your diamond testers. If it does, then you need to consider her role in the game and if you want her to build tank or not.

3. Jungle Nidalee is getting crushed in later running games while AP mid nidalee gets better as the game goes on. Mid nidalee goes from 34%?! What the crap riot!? winrate in games under 25 minutes to a still laughable 43% winrate in games over 40 minutes. Compared to the average mid, nidalee is inferior to that average mid in every category that champion.gg follows. Her jungle is only slightly better than average at getting kills.

4. Mid lane nidalee is in absolute last place when it comes to average minions killed per game. She also takes 3000 more damage than she dishes out. This is interesting. I think she's still doing okay in the jungle only because she can get more gold there than in laning. Suggestion: she needs to be able to CS better and I wonder if she's easy to trade against by other mids. She's got no wave clear in her human form and her panther form screams trade against me if she's using it to clear minions. If you don't want her to CS to get fed, she needs to be able to get kills, and her stats don't suggest she can reliably enough to make up for lost income.

5. Her jungle currently isn't particularly good at anything save for a slightly high number of kills and her lack of assists suggests she is a terrible ganker. This suggests ATM she has no clear reason to be picked in the jungle as she can't gank well, she isn't a tank, and she falls off late. Likewise her mid game lacks anything worth wanting to pick her simply because she fails so hard as a champ at perhaps the most important thing for a mid laner: CSing. No CS no food.

Final thoughts. While I kind of like nidalee in theory, she's not working at all. Right now there are better assassin junglers and assassin mids so there's no reason to pick her. She doesn't tank well, gank well, or powerjungle for that lane. Her mid sucks. After this last round of nerfs I have to ask, what does she do well enough to make me want to pick her? What's her role ATM?

Nidalee needs help.