@RiotAugust About the possibility of returning nidalee to lane

I wanted to make a board post for us to discuss in more detail what was talked about on twitter. AD TOP LANE The initial tweet was specifically about top lane AD nidalee and that is what I personally am most familiar with and would like to see come back. I don't think she needs too much. Giving her back her auto attack resets would go a very long way in helping her and if there was only one possible change that could happen it would be this. (this also helps midalee but to a lesser extent) Some other suggestions I have are to buff her Ad portion on her cougar form Q and also to change the damage it deals to physical with the same way adaptive stats work. This lets her have more items to build while making it much easier and less frustrating to build defensive items against.

MIDALEE The options here for changes are much harder to look at due to pretty much any AP buffs also being buffs to jungle nidalee. The 2 suggestions I have that I don't think would be a huge impact on over powering jungle nidalee are to make it so her traps don't proc from lane creeps and to make her spears not hit lane creeps anymore either.

JUNGLE

Now before any changes at all are made to nidalee I feel she would need some way to adjust ONLY her power in the jungle. The suggestion I have to do this is to add damage modifiers to her abilities specifically for jungle camps. Something like "Takedown deals X damage and is capped at X on jungle monsters" or deals a increased or reduced % of the damage to jungle monsters. I believe there are some abilities in the game that work like this already. I know rumbles flame spitter deals 75% damage to minions off the top of my head it's the same idea. I also feel this would allow her to have her cat form CDs reduced again which would help her out in top/mid and jungle. especially pounce as she used to be one of the most mobile champions in the game but not so much anymore.

An example of what I mean is if you buff nidalee in top and mid lane as ad and ap and one of the changes ends up making her to strong in the jungle like she has been in the past instead of just nerfing her across the board you can nerf (or even buff if she's to weak in the jungle) just her jungle without harming her in lane.

Lets say jungle nidalees clear speed is 3 minutes for a full clear. Now lets say we give her back the auto resets and this makes her clear 2 minutes and 50 seconds. The idea is that she would have damage modifiers on her abilities to adjust for just jungle camps. So if 2 minutes and 50 seconds is considered too fast they could reduce her damage slightly to JUST jungle camps to the point that it would take her 3 minutes again. This would not harm her lane in any way.

I hope we can discuss this more and I'm really excited at the possibility of finally being able to play nidalee top again. Honestly thank you for even considering buffs for lane nidalee and taking time out of your day to talk to us about it.

TL:DR

AD top nid - auto resets midalee - traps not proccing on minons Jungle - neutral monster damage modifiers

Lets try to keep this discussion on how to fix nidalee