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Not really sure what the reason behind the nidalee nerfs are...

HeartPalpitation··3 votes·813 views

"Prowl (Passive) Triggering a hunt on a neutral monster no longer roots it for 2 seconds."

So what you are telling me is, you want her first clear to be nearly impossible? Without being able to kite the jungle monsters around you are going to be face tanking all the damage and are going to almost 100% have to back after blowing all your pots just on red (i don't have access to PBE to fully test it) but as of now, you have to be pretty damn good at kiting to be effective at clearing the jungle. Which brings me to my main point. Why are people getting punished for playing a champion to their full potential? An unskilled or less practiced nidalee will struggle through the jungle (which is why her win% is at a COMPLETELY reasonable 50.28% in plat elo +) Can i get some insight as to whether these are going to stick and why they are being done? In my opinion a high skilled nidalee player should be able to shit on the enemy jungler because it TAKES SKILL to effectively clear the first set of jungle monsters and be able to pull off crazy invades.

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CaptnJakSparrow2 votes

She has the fastest clear speed in the game via abusing attack resets + W.

It's actually kind of disgusting when the player knows what they're doing, and high mmr smurfs abuse it.

HeartPalpitation2 votes

you don't really undertsnad she will literally NOT be able to clear her jungle on the first clear, they arent just taking a little power away to make her balanced they are completely taking away her ability to counter jungle and she considered a COUNTER JUNGLE champion, what do you get when she can't even clear the first jungle path? a useless spear chucking champion that can't do anything. People can downvote all they want but the fact is they are gutting her and people who enjoyed playing her and being screwed

CaptnJakSparrow1 votes

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you don't really undertsnad she will literally NOT be able to clear her jungle on the first clear, they arent just taking a little power away to make her balanced they are completely taking away her ability to counter jungle and she considered a COUNTER JUNGLE champion, what do you get when she can't even clear the first jungle path? a useless spear chucking champion that can't do anything. People can downvote all they want but the fact is they are gutting her and people who enjoyed playing her and being screwed

I'm very much certain she can still throw 55,000 traps down and do gromp + blue B + invade the enemy jungler at their red all the same even with the nerf. Then run and do her chickens + red + stoner brothers + both scuttles and kill me at blue as well while being level 6 already.

I highly doubt this nerf does "anything" to her besides inhibit her from getting a 5 level lead on everyone. And yes, it does get that bad in high plat/diamond.

HeartPalpitation2 votes

do you not understand how important it is for a nidalee to be able to kite jungle camps? without it doing gromp+blue with almost certainly make you have to back and/or pop all of your pots and even then it will be really hard to kill red buff after, and that is ASSUMING she can even kill the enemy jungler.

CaptnJakSparrow1 votes

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do you not understand how important it is for a nidalee to be able to kite jungle camps? without it doing gromp+blue with almost certainly make you have to back and/or pop all of your pots and even then it will be really hard to kill red buff after, and that is ASSUMING she can even kill the enemy jungler.

Welcome to the life of every other invading jungler in the game. Get over it.

HeartPalpitation2 votes

or people need to get over the fact that nidalee is supposed to be a strong counter jungler and and a single target assassin... god forbid zed and leblanc can one combo someone AND have good laning phases but nidalee cant have a good jungle clear?

CaptnJakSparrow1 votes

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or people need to get over the fact that nidalee is supposed to be a strong counter jungler and and a single target assassin... god forbid zed and leblanc can one combo someone AND have good laning phases but nidalee cant have a good jungle clear?

Kindred is supposed to be an early game invading jungler.

She loses over 1/2 her life and 3/4ths her mana doing red buff. In order to get the blue b she actually needs to smite it unlike any other jungler in the game.

All other invading junglers aren't even able to do blue two camps + invade. They have to do one camp, then invade.

And, you're going to bitch that you can't do 3 camps + invade before someone clears their first buff? You're a fucking moron lol.

There is 100% 0 reason for Nid to have such a strong clear + invade + gold advantage + safety + the ability to stay in the jungle tied with fastest move speed + gank potential + execute + high base damage + power spiking before every other champ in the game + getting a ludens fucking echo before anyone else is even level 5.

No.

You're biased and your complaints are not valid.

dangopee1 votes

Dirty nid picker

HeartPalpitation2 votes

she is far from my main, i play her every now and then, but i can see how this is going to hurt her so bad that she will not even be viable anymore, not really understanding the reasoning behind it.

SaltyKracka2 votes

Frankly, nobody will miss her.

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