The road to making nidalee viable again

ill start this off with some stats http://champion.gg/champion/Nidalee

Jungle win rate 45% role placement as a jungler 45/46 2nd from bottom

middle win rate 33.9% role placement 51/51 last place

top win rate 44% role placement: 52/54 third from bottom

So i stopped playing league a while back, i think... july 2015. because of the nerfs done to nidalee.

now while i can play more than 1, nidalee was my first champ, my favorite champ, and my main.

i started back before back before season 3 started and i reached lvl 30 right when season 2 was ending

so why did i stop playing?

well nidalee had 3 viable roles: top, mid, both competitively and support for fun

then you let her jungle (which was great and it fits her lore)

and then the trap nerf. and this is probably the BIGGEST nerf nidalee got, and also the one that easily been avoided by changing 1 simple number see nidalee has traps do % damage after her rework and this was capped at 200 vs monsters

now when we let nidalee jungle that 200 capped damage vs monsters for 1 trap was OP so what does riot decide to do? they REMOVE the % damage?

ALL YOU NEEDED TO DO WAS LOWER THE PRE-EXISTING CAP!!!!

no matter what you change in nidalee THAT was what kill her ability to lane.

because now traps vs players do NOTHING. i have made tons of threads about this back when i played so u can view my history for more details. but that change effectively removed traps for doing ANYTHING to players.

than you nerf her hp, and later her spear damage. (you know, her ONLY damaging skill in human form) all to combat her "jungle" role. and so you make her not op , you also make her not even GOOD in the jungle. and you made her 100% worthless at top mid and support.

to made nidalee viable again. her traps need to be changed back to % damage and lower the cap vs monsters. if that is not done. her traps will always be worthless, and THEN if that wasn bad enough you lower the vision on her traps.

you already made traps worthless vs player and the ONLY thing they could STILL do was provide vision from far when put down. and you REMOVE THAT. why might was well have removed that skill slot and put a placeholder saying " nidalee has no human "W" skill. because that what you did

you can tweak her spear all you want. but nidalee will never be able to lane again unless she has traps that either deal % damage again. or have some sort of debuff again.

and while i may check back every few months to check the patch notes. i wont be play again till i see nidalee traps doing somthing