Did They Gut Nidalee's First Clear?

First off, let me just state that I'm a bad Nidalee. I was decent with her a while back, and I was super excited to see her awesome new splashes, since I had already owned most of her skins, even bought the skin bundle for her. Figured I'd try her out again, and I literally couldn't take 3 camps no matter what I did. I even had a friend help me out in customs with good leashes, tried starting Q and W, and I'd be at 5% health at the end of red (starting bot side). The only way I could take another camp was to take Scuttles, which I would be very hesitant to do in an actual game, just because of how low red gets me.

So, am I just doing something hilariously wrong? Is her clear borderline impossible now? I'd really like to get back into her, I used to carry games so often when I used to play her.

Her nerf, in my opinion, is stupid. It doesn't effect her much after her first clear, I've seen Nidalee's chew through teams like their paper still. If rito wanted to nerf her, they should have maybe nerfed the max range spear damage, or make her jumps recent on camps but not enemy champions. She already had pretty bad first clear, even back when she had a stun on her passive, but now it's almost impossible for novice's to pick up. That's not how anything should be. I could clear easier with Janna. (no, I'm serious, I have before)

But anyway, is there some secret technique here? Before anyone says "she deserved the nerf", I would agree with you, she did need a nerf, but not this way. This is just a bad way to go about things, for reasons I stated earlier.