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The Nidalee nerfs are merely a band-aid fix for a much bigger problem

metaworldpeace10·3/31/2015, 6:28:31 PM·2 votes·233 views
3/30 PBE Update

The proposed Nidalee changes are as follows:

Nidalee

Base HP reduced to 511 from 541
HP Growth reduced to 75 from 90
Primal Surge (Human E) cooldown increased to 16 seconds from 12 seconds.

While these changes are deserved nerfs for this bitch, these nerfs solve nothing. These nerfs don't fix the toxic play pattern of "chuck spears all day, land one, assassinate, disengage through free mobility and heal up all the damage you took during the engage" Her problem is not her durability at all. Her problems are purely gameplay and there are here as follows:

  1. Infinite and potent poke. The spear skillshot honestly isn't too difficult to dodge, but with how low the CD is to the spear and the relatively low mana cost, you can chuck them all day and most likely 1 out of your 10 spears will land and you can safely engage, assassinate and disengage.

  2. Free mobility through her passive and cougar form. She has too much mobility for being a "poke" mage play pattern. It's as simple as that. There are no tradeoffs for her mobility.

  3. Her heal/AS steroid. This allows for her to shrug off poke, while being able to make your ADC a tower killing/team fighting machine. Poke/sustain and assassination potential do not make for healthy gameplay

  4. Free wards. While these traps do minimal damage, the ability for her to lay out traps and give extra vision is just the icing on the cake for an already overloaded kit.

Solutions?

1 or two of these gameplay patterns needs to be completely removed, while simultaneously buffing the other patterns. One example might be to severely reduce her poke damage and remove her heal, while buffing her cougar form damage and improving her utility through a new ability and or improving her traps. There are many different combinations of things that can/need to happen in order for Nidalee to finally be balanced. It's been many many seasons of unbalanced and toxic gameplay coming from Nidalee and she needs to be changed significantly. These hp nerfs and increased CD on the heal do next to nothing when it comes to fixing her core issues, which all of them are gameplay issues.

TLDR: These nerfs are just a band-aid fix and are not addressing the toxic gameplay patterns of Nidalee. She needs another mini rework.

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