Let's Talk: Nidalee

ShinRaigeki·3/19/2014, 6:25:27 AM·4 votes·787 views

Summary: Please restrict the width of the hitbox on Nidalee's spears. It gets annoying to deal with an attack that deals as much as an ultimate with such a small cooldown, with such an abnormal hitbox.

I am not saying she's broken statistically or anything (although with how much her kit can do, that's actually up for debate as of this meta), I'm saying the hitbox itself is just too wide for the havoc it can produce, and I've seen it hit me when it visibly wouldn't 'hit' the sides of the spear at all against my character's icon.

13 Comments

Piepally3/19/2014, 12:12:37 PM1 votes

If you do that it's easier to miss minions, so she hits you more anyways.

Earl Eulrich3/19/2014, 3:23:22 PM1 votes

the spear would be alright, the broken thing about nidalee is her heal - helping her to sustain through almost anything during laning + once she has the advantage just enables her team to siege for forever, due to the poke+sustain all in one champ. It also punishes teams that engage on her but not hit everything brilliant incredible hard...as a semi-good engage will just get obliterated after some heals. It´s just one of the most toxic kits in the game right now.

yeldahman133/19/2014, 3:26:07 PM1 votes

and then if you do manage to get close to her with out the spears killing you, she just turns into a cougar then runs, then you chase her to infinity hoping you can get that one hit in, then she goes into turret and throws one more spear. or she heals. SHE'S OP!

Akh Morn3/19/2014, 4:00:10 PM1 votes

At the same time, her spear animation goes FARTHER than the actual hitbox. So they need to make the width from about 70 to 60, but make the length 1500->1550.

Remlap12233/19/2014, 10:47:34 PM1 votes

I agree that Nidalee's spear needs to be nerfed. However, I don't think that it should lose all it's power, it's just that Nidalee is such a heavy poking champion in her human form, and then goes full predator in her cougar form. Instead of gaining damage the further away a champion is, have it deal double bonus damage on retreating targets (backshots). And knock down the AP scaling. I know everyone just harps about staying behind minions, but you're not going to have minions body blocking abilities everywhere you go. It's the same reason why I believe that Blitzcrank's pull is massively overpowered, because somebody has to get pulled, or the Blitzcrank has to be terrible at skillshots. There is no other counter. Same goes for Nid's spears. If the AP scaling went down significantly, and instead did double damage on retreating targets, I'd go as far to say that the spear can ignore unit collision on minions, much like Ez's Essence Flux.

TL:DR, Nidalee should be a cougar on the prowl for her prey, not a helpless pussycat taking potshots.

Hullabaloo9073/22/2014, 12:30:07 AM1 votes

I dont think that they need to make the spear less powerful, but i do agree that it is super annoying when you think you dodged but you didnt.