Can we please get some QOL changes for Nidalee top?

TheJackFroster·Mar 25, 2018·2 votes·214 views

I've always loved playing Nidalee toplane, despite Riot's continuous efforts in destroying the champion. I think I speak for everyone who plays Nid top atm when I say very small changes would make her much more viable, namely the removal of the auto reset on her ult. I understand that it was done when Nid in the jungle was an issue but it hit Nid in lane much much harder than in jungle. Item, rune and camp changes have make her clears much easier since that change was made and lane Nid is still in the painful spot it was when the reset was removed.

I'm not asking for massive kit changes like with LeBlanc or Rengar (even though I would send Riot my firstborn if they did focus on lane Nid as her primary role again), I'd just like to see what impact adding back this little bit of skill expression back into the game would do.

[zombie-nunu-bummed]

6 Comments

BeersteinMar 25, 20181 votes

I still occasionally play her as AD bruiser top...for whatever reason I still do really well with that. I chalk it up to my opponents having no effing clue what the heck is going on though. Generally speaking I just suck as top now with normal laners...maybe I should try Teemo.. I feel dirty and need to rethink my life now, bye.

TheJackFrosterMar 25, 20181 votes

Exactly. I felt the same way too when I recent got back into AD Nid top. Sure there are the games where the guy you'll be against probably hasn't seen a ranged champion top in years but those cases are few and far between.

Most of the time it feels like I'm not outplaying my laner, they're just making huge mistakes.

BeersteinMar 25, 20181 votes

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Exactly. I felt the same way too when I recent got back into AD Nid top. Sure there are the games where the guy you'll be against probably hasn't seen a ranged champion top in years but those cases are few and far between.

Most of the time it feels like I'm not outplaying my laner, they're just making huge mistakes.

I'm also at Silver though and on the rare time I do spot a nidalee, the player very rarely knows how to use her cougar form at all. It's like half her kit doesn't exist for them except cougar to run away. Because the players at my level don't know how to play her, what chance do her opponents have on understanding her cougars low hp burst damage?

Basically anyone that does use it usually dominates hard, anyone that doesn't tends to be a bit of a weight dragging down their team, especially in teamfights.

TheJackFrosterMar 25, 20181 votes

Playing Nid top in plat is true suffering for the most part. Every game is a coinflip of pain. Will i be against Sion or Malphite and will I be ganked 5 or 6 times before 10 mins.

WindLord7070Mar 25, 20182 votes

It usually comes down to the enemy top laner not actually playing top lane or not knowing how to lane against ranged champions in general.

WindLord7070Mar 25, 20181 votes

I want them to bring back both her auto resets or straight up revert her to before her passive applied to jungle camps and then add damage modifiers to her skills that effect jungle camps like other champions have and use THAT to balance her jungle instead of ruining her lane.