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When will Riot admit that Nidalee will always be a blight upon the game?

Report Team GG·1/18/2015, 7:44:59 PM·9 votes·1,297 views

Her playstyle still remains the same...

Chuck spears indefinitely, then cougar in to execute.... Playing at 0 risk to herself as always. The only difference now is Nids execution threshold is 50% and her spears hit the other 50% of your HP compared 25/75 before.

She still is damn near uncatchable/unkillable unless you're playing someone with serious catch potential.

She still retains that frustrating ruin the game for 9 other player playstyle.

She's selfish. She's noninteractive. And she pisses everyone off.

You still didn't fix her spear spam. You still didn't fix her heal. You sort of fixed her pounce. But you didn't fix her cougar form.

Riot originally you wanted to make Nid more interactive so that people can play against her.... Well you failed. Cougar forms full of burst damage and your ability to react to it is about 0.1 seconds. So you weaken her unable-to-touch-her poke and give her unable-to-react to burst damage execution.

Nid doesn't need to be a burst-execute-uncatchable-heal champion. Make pounce a pure gap closer and nothing else.

There's no counterplay to her spears still There's no counterplay to her heal still There's no counterplay to her traps still (along with being hard to see visually) There's no counterplay to her cougar form burst damage still

She needs some of the following -Shield in lieu of heal -Pounce only useable as gap closer -Spear range lowered

12 Comments

Direwolfiez1/18/2015, 7:47:36 PM5 votes

To be fair, at least she actually has to dive people to kill them now. Not claiming that she's not still horrible to play against, but before she'd 2-hit you with Qs and boom, dead, with not possible chance to meaningfully play against her aside from dodging her spammable Q.

Abyssphere1/18/2015, 8:49:09 PM4 votes

If her dives were way too strong then she'd probably actually be doing well right now, but her win rate is very poor. I won't disagree that she's hard to play against but her strength isn't a problem at all. Cougar form Nidalee is the most conditional assassin in the game.

PrinceOfStorms1/18/2015, 7:48:24 PM2 votes

But there is counterplay to her spears.

Dodge them. They only chunk you really hard if it's at max range.

Kuroi861/18/2015, 9:28:31 PM2 votes

The only difference now is Nids execution threshold is 50% and her spears hit the other 50% of your HP compared 25/75 before.

So tell me, when did you begin to believe that eating full range Nid spears followed by walking into her melee range was a good idea?

Base Magic Damage: 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+40% AP) This is a Nid spear at close range. Base Magic Damage: 4 / 20 / 50 / 90 (+75% AD) (+36% AP) This is Nid takedown damage provided you don't eat spears til you're low health and then get her hunt proc on you.

There's no counterplay to her spears still

In the words of Picollo "DODGE!!!"

There's no counterplay to her heal still

Because a miniscule heal is to uncounterable, especially when it sucks a chunk out of your mana.

There's no counterplay to her traps still (along with being hard to see visually)

Because stepping around them is impossible.

There's no counterplay to her cougar form burst damage still

Have you played Nidalee? I really don't think you have.

CaesarFlickerman1/18/2015, 8:49:14 PM1 votes

I thought we got the Nidalee QQers the fuck out of here.