nerfs still really haven't put a dent in nidalee.

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Atleast thats what it looks like, as shes still pick/ban in competitive.

Shes really not that bad.. Shes perfectly fine. Shes not good in team fights and isnt the greatest at 1v1 but shes just overall a good champ.

The same CANNOT be said about lucian

LOL, first off.. competitive doesn't even use the latest patch.

second, out of EVERY nerf riot has done to nidalee since they threw her in the jungle only ONE of them was actaully DONE RIGHT.

nidalee was balanced in 3 lanes with a 50% win rate, then they let her jungle by allowing hunted to be procced on jungle mobs and allowing the jungle mobs to be rooted

1 first nerf her traps, by removing % hp to lower her clear speed. they had the effect of lowering her clear speed and completely destroying her ability to support and really hurting her support and mid lane when all the needed to do to accomplish the same effect was to lower the PRE-EXISTING cap on jungle mobs from 200 to 40 or 50

Effect: large (needed) jungle nerf, absolutely detroys support role and hurts top and mid roles for NO REASON AT ALL Effect for me as a nidalee main: i can no longer play nidalee support and she is much weaker mid

2 they nerf her hp, which doesn't do ANYTHING because she has a heal, becase at that point in time her traps still rooted Effect: in jugnle, until they removed the root from her traps, hurts laning phase effect for me: i start to try to learn nid jugnle as her laning is getting even worse

3 then they nerf her spear by adding a cast time.. which of coarse makes it INSANELY harder to hit those stationary jungle and and really hurts her clear speed Effect: makes her ganks harder, very large nerf to laning nidalee effect for me: i quit league for 7 months until challenger nidalee skin is released

after challenger skin is released i learn how to jungle with nidalee eventually working up to the point where i can do a full mapside leashless clear before backing

4. remove trap root Effect: none vs players, slight clear speed reduction in plat an above. makes it NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to jungle as nidalee with mechanics lower than gold effect for me: i go from doing a full leashless clear to getting executed on my 3rd camp instead of reaching lvl 3 about 50% of the time unless i get a VERY good leash

5 pounce change, no longer resets basic attack, slightly increase pounce damage Effect: slightly lower her clear speed at higher elos, WOULD have slightly helped lower elos, if it wasnt for the removal of the trap root during the same patch..

6 takedown % scaling change Effect weaker early game nid where she was too strong, stronger late game where she was too weak OMG RIOT YOU DID A PROPER NERF!!!!!!! Effect for me: slight improvement

7 Nerf pounce reset early game Effect: still new, so i dont know how it affect high level play yet, but i can say Effect for me: as of this post 100% execution rate on 2nd camp after getting leash on first camp. 100% impossible to lane as nidalee in ANY lane

So. what does the OP say? nerfs didn't put a dent in nidalee

if you consider the INTENDED effect of nerfs being designed to hurt higher play.. then no they didn't hurt her much.

if you consider the ACTUALLY effect of completely destroying ALL her laning and making it so people who have been playing nidalee for three years in three different roles in a BLANCED state, were then forced to play her in the jungle. and then just becuase im a silver player and im not korean, i dont have the mechanics to even get past my 2nd camp without getting executed

then yeah the nerf dont only HURT her.. they completely GUT her

so ALL those nerfs are to compensate WHAT? hunted being triggered on jungle camps...

riot.. seriously can we just go back to the start of season 5 before you left her jungle and then just find a way to MAKE her jungle in a way that would be balanced without hurting her lanes

because if we continue at this point i don't see ANY way in hell nidalee will be able to lane again. or for that matter even jungle at my elo (silver)