A few QoL changes for Nidalee

Mecha MaIphite··3 votes·445 views

As most of you know, Nidalee has been nerfed to oblivion and is now around Zed tier in terms of unviability, while the tank overlords like Taric and Mundo are still dominating the meta. As a nidalee main, I'd like to suggest a few simple changes to make her gameplay a little smoother and maybe transition into some new much-needed buffs for her later on.

First off, her Javelin Toss is extremely hard to hit. When it does hit an enemy champion, it should refund 100% of its mana. In addition, it should be able to go through minions. Actually, scratch that, it should go through all units and deal full damage to all of them. The speed of the projectile also needs to be doubled. Her cougar form Q is also in a really bad spot. My suggestion is that it should increase Nidalee's attack range by 100 for the empowered attack to make sure she lands it.

Also, Nidalee has no CC at all. Her W is a trap, and it would only make sense for a trap to snare her enemies for 1.5 seconds. Her leap range should also be buffed by 200 units (400 on marked targets), and the damage increased as well to give her a reason to max W for strategic diversity.

Nidalee's E is in a terrible spot. Her heal is almost useless. The mana cost of it should be halved. Her Cougar E is also terrible. The damage and range needs to be buffed, and it should do true damage to targets marked by her traps and spears.

Lastly, maxing R gives no solid benefits. A good change to this would be to grant her CC immunity and bonus resistances for the first second she goes into cougar form, and restores 50% of her missing mana when she goes to human form. The CD could be increased by 0.1 seconds to keep her in check.

These nerfs will bring everyone's beloved nidalee back from the trash can, and I will finally be able to play her in ranked without my team flaming me for picking a useless troll champ.

12 Comments

Stiv12344 votes

while the tank overlords like Taric

Stopped reading.

Mecha MaIphite2 votes

Taric is a blatantly overpowered champion with free armour and a point-and-click stun.

Voidgolem3 votes

QoL Changes for nidalee:

Massive, uncompensated nerfs to her entire kit.

League proceeds to actually be fun again.

kJs2 votes

wtf is this a sick joke?

Mecha MaIphite2 votes

I am dead serious. Nidalee is almost as bad as Lee Sin was in s4.

kJs1 votes

Yeah, Lee Sin was viable in every season, just not top tier.

Well the Sejuani ult is obviously coming right about now! turn into cougar form and walks away like nothing even happenned* Try against a Xerath? You can essentially ignore a Vel'Koz E with that. Or any other champion that has CC. Nautilus ults me because I've been jumping over walls through their jungle all game? well time to switch to cougar form! walks away like nothing even happened He throws a Q, well I'll just dodge that with a leap.

Get caught by Thresh hook and then he ults well just cougar form to get out of that one!

Rek'Sai catches me with a tunnel/dash and unburrows right below me cougar form

I was stupid enough to get catch the attention of the thresh support, jinx and nautilus in a bush. cougar form leaps

Right, I just landed a spear on an unwary Tristana because unluckily she didn't have a live ward. She ults me but cougar form leap

Build AP Tank Nidalee because for some reason I get CC immunity and increased resistances.

Sure, Q won't be OP at all. With a Deathcap and some other AP item Nidalee will just spear and kill right through a whole minion wave as she passes by to gank another lane. BALANCED.

50% of missing mana return? Well I guess I don't really need to build anymore Mana Regen and can keep spamming Q every time my lane opponent tries to CS. For an added bonus If I land it it costs be nothing! yay! Win win for everyone!

leaping through walls, everyone flashes after you because you're OOM. oh right you get FIFTY FUCKING PERCENT OF YOUR FUCKING MANA BACK SO YOU CAN KEEP SPAMMING CHEAP MANA COST HEALS.

#WTF!

Mecha MaIphite1 votes

Except she does 0 damage and an alistar passive can one-shot her.

Sasogwa2 votes

Dunno why people even downvote, obvious troll over 9000 cmon guys

Mecha MaIphite2 votes

I am not a troll. If I was a troll, I would've said something like "riven is unhealthy xddddd"

Sasogwa1 votes

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I am not a troll. If I was a troll, I would've said something like "riven is unhealthy xddddd"

You just said it in that sentence

Keepo

UltraSceptile1 votes

People are taking this seriously?

FantasySniper1 votes

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As most of you know, Nidalee has been nerfed to oblivion and is now around Zed tier in terms of unviability, while the tank overlords like Taric and Mundo are still dominating the meta.

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