So why are we complaining about Lee still when Nidalee exists?

Visigoth··2 votes·281 views

I remember about a month ago when people were talking about how Shen "can't be an assassin and a tank but Lee can be a tanky melee burst dps assassin marksman support" as an analogy as how annoying his kit is.

But right now, let's take a look at Nidalee. Her human Q, her spear, allows her to do half of someone's hp with one ability, with a (still) pretty dumb hitbox. Sometimes it goes through them, sometimes it hits from 3 miles away, seems pretty random sometimes. Her human W, bushwack, gives her map control along with setting landmines through her lane that when stepped on give you her passive which lets you get one shot by her Q as she lunges halfway across the map. Her E, a spammable, large heal, that gives a pretty good attack speed buff. Because why not? Cougar Q: oh you got hit by a spear or stepped on a bushwack hidden in a bush? Tactical nuke inbound. Cougar W: Low as hell cooldown dash that goes through lots of walls. Gets ridiculous ass range if you're hunted. Cougar E: Actually a pretty decently balanced ability. Don't mind this one.

Her passive: The reason she became broken after her failed rework to make her less broken. Went from dying to a spear to dying after being hit by a spear and being all inned after she lunges from her fountain to your inhib. Gives her the ability to leap to you and one shot you with her ridiculous scaling empowered basic attack WITH an execute. Because why not?

Also, bonus: Let's make her passive also apply to jungle creeps now so she can jungle and apply cancer to all lanes. Her passive which STUNS jungle creeps. Just makes them stand still. Makes scuttle crab easy as hell for her, hit one spear and it will sit there.

It seems that whenever Riot tries to nerf her they always feel the need to give her some ridiculous compensation. She's one shotting with spears? Let her build tri-force full tank and be able to one-shot. She's building tri-tank and one shotting people? Make it so now she can build full AP like before so the spear does damage AND cougar form Q does damage, on top of her heal. She's destroying in every lane? Let her jungle. Maybe we should go the Elise or Khazix route and you know, JUST NERF HER. Because let's be honest, who sees Nidalee get picked and just think "oh boy, this game will be fun and challenging, but still possible to win if I'm actually better." Instead she is treated as LeeSin 2.0 where no matter how overloaded her kit is with damage and mobility she will never be nerfed for no reason.

Rant over, fuck this champ.

4 Comments

redniwediS2 votes

People complain about Lee Sin because people like complaining. It's the same reason you're here to complain about Nidalee.

SEKAI1 votes

Nidalee hasn't been broken for 3 years straight unlike Lee, well to be fair she kinda was but then reworked and still was annoying as hell...

Oh right boys, from now on let us complain BOTH.

Abyssphere1 votes

Nidalee's Hunted Pounce barely outranges Shunpo, was outranged by Akali's dash prior to its gutting and is outranged by Diana's dash also. It's not some uniquely long dash, and its range is allowed to be that long because it needs setup to be like that (otherwise being a very poor 375).

You list her Cougar E, the only ability that does basically nothing but contribute to burst, as the only balanced ability in her kit :/ If every ability she had was on the level of Swipe she'd probably have a 20% win rate.

Terff1 votes

To me... nidalee is the LoL equivalent of the huntsman sniper in Tf2

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