@riotrepertoir nid's been out for a while now, are there any plans to change her?

Fomorian27·Sep 6, 2014·1 votes·729 views

She is incredibly frustrating to play against as a ranged champion. Much of it comes from the fact that her leap has variable range, and can seemingly cross vast distances when it wants to. At level 2 she is a terror if you're playing someone like ryze because all she has to do is land one spear and suddenly she's on your face. I understand that she needs to reliably close the gap but it needs to be more obvious to the player playing against her when she can and can't close the gap. I would be more in favour of her empowered leap doing something other than putting her right in your face, like getting two mini leaps of fixed range instead. This allows her to close the gap if she chooses but lets the player playing against her actually have a chance to get away. Barring that, I think the yasuo dash treatment would be appropriate, where a snare or a stun stops her in mid leap instead of at the landing point, rewarding skillful use of cc abilities.

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xXC00k1esXxSep 7, 20142 votes

Whenever you get hit by a spear or trap, a triangular icon appears above your head much like velkoz. That, is when Nidalee's leap can extend beyond normal range. Also, they changed it so she actually leaps behind her target. Nidalee herself has a ring around her when the passive is triggered. This shows just how far she can jump, although the ring is only visible to Nidalee.

I am certain the leap is no further than flash range.

Before her change, Nidalee was one of those laning champs that didn't necessarily win trades but she was difficult to kill. A perfect champ to hold and freeze a lane so the enemy never gets very far.

Now they gave her a new passive, and set ult to lvl 1 instead of lvl 6 to be more in line with Elise, Jayce, and Karma. This change gave her back that power to win trades in lane.

My suggestion to you is to pick a champion against her that can easily win trades in lane like Vladimir. She can poke you all day long but as Vladimir you can heal all the damage away.

Fomorian27Sep 7, 20141 votes

First of all, I understand very well how her mechanics work, the problem is that the way they are implemented means that if you move farther away when she casts her leap she will move to your new location, artificially extending the leap. It's the difference between, say a lee sin resonating strike which puts him right on top of his enemy, and a graves quickdraw, which is always going to be a fixed distance. The problem isn't the leap in and of itself, it's also the fact that she also gets to chunk you for half your health because of her ability to q e and then quickly leap out. I don't if you've ever actually played the vlad vs nid matchup because vlad doesn't have nearly the sustain required to outlast nid's all in potential. All she needs is one spear to land and she can chunk him down to below half health. After that it's just a matter of keeping him zoned away with the thread of more spears so that he can't come close enough to the wave to heal back up.