So I really want to try and learn to play Nidalee and become good at her, but my first question is... in which role is she the strongest right now? Because I kinda see her everywhere, top lane, mid lane, support... so it made me a bit confused about where to go with her.
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Drunk Rummate3 votesAP bruiser top is probably her best role right now. You can build her as AP assassin mid as well, but she's not very good against most of the meta champs right now.
SuchLucyWow1 votesWho is her biggest counter in mid? And isn't top supposed to have tanky champs? Because I've played her top once but then I went AD tankyish
Drunk Rummate1 votesWho is her biggest counter in mid? And isn't top supposed to have tanky champs? Because I've played her top once but then I went AD tankyish
Lane bullies in mid are gonna beat her, especially assassins. Biggest counters right now I would say are Syndra, Leblanc, Zed, Ahri
Top lane you want to build her with iceborn gauntlet generally. Try following this guide, he updated it pretty recently. Guy plays a lot of Nidalee top in Challenger. http://www.lolking.net/guides/592
Acidic Puddle1 votesOnce you get a blue buff you get infinite sustain tho...
Acidic Puddle1 votesSince her base AD was nerfed I don't that building her AD is correct.
Sira Ren2 votesI usually go Mid or Top with her but more preference to mid.
You wanna know the combos before hand though so try customs because when I first tried Nid I was so so so bad.
Support Nid is a thing but I usually play that only when my friends are doing ADC.
SuchLucyWow1 votesCould you perhaps tell me the combos? :D
Sira Ren1 votesSure.
One of the basic combos is to start with Q in Human Form. H for human form and C for cougar form.
Q(H) -> R -> W(C) -> E(C) -> Q(C) -> AA. That's the most basic form of a Nid combo. Once you hit the Q, you will see a circle around you with a line to your opponent. Facing the cougar in that direction and pressing W will immediately pounce you onto your opponent. Do your E to lower your opponent's health even more and finish with a Q AA since Q procs the ability. Why Q last? Because of the following:
"The damage is increased by 1.5% for every 1% of the target's missing health, for a maximum of 150% bonus damage (250% total damage)." Source: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Nidalee
Once you get that down in customs, you should be able to maneuver around Nidalee properly. For instance, I set traps when I'm in the middle lane. Middle lane procs the same passive your Q(H) does. As a result you can pounce and repeat the combo.
What happens after the combo? Well, usually I W(C) back and R then shoot Q(H) if the opponent's health is low AND I have a clear shot (this is important or you will burn your mana endlessly) or Alt+E(H) to Heal and CS.
That's the basics of Nidalee. It took me quite a while and numerous losses to get the combo down, but I can maneuver Nidalee decently now.
You also should note that if your W(C) or E(C) get's a kill, whether it is minions or a champion, it's CD goes down to ~1 sec. So a general tip when CS with cougar form (which is very efficient since Cougar form does not use mana) is that I usually W(C) and E(C) low health minions and keep doing that repeatedly for very fast wave clears. On top of that, W(C) follows your cursor so it's quite easy to get it down if you have smartcasted skillshots before.
Overall, the above combo is the basic combo. You should know that W(C) then R would give your human form a jump pretty much so I do that to catch up an opponent and then Q(H) to secure a kill. A skilled Nidalee is so beautiful to watch. Also know which places you can pounce over the wall. You can find multiple guides online and on YouTube.com that display some ways you can juke your opponents.
Hope this helps! Ask me questions if you have any!
B3ER2 votesHybrid bruiser with Void Staff or go home. Triforce/Frozen Fist, Gunblade/Rageblade, Boots, Void Staff, Tank1, Tank2.
Argumentation:
Consistent DPS with significant burst while being tanky and ranged. CDR will allow you to set up your pounce weaving more often.
Lane is matter of preference. In top you'll snowball hard against melee champs. In mid, you'll get poked a bit but you can all in better and roam better. Enjoy your freelo, I'll accept a mystery gift as thanks.
Hell Week1 votesVery nice haha, i'm trying it out :)
coppinslinger1 votesTop or Mid depending on your preference. AP is the way to go atm IMO because it has the most damage in skirmishes, teamfights, and sieges.
Honestly, she isn't really weak at all if you are a god with her (very easy to dodge skill-shots with brush move-speed and cougar W). Her damage, assassination potential, and poke are also huge if you can land those spears. Unfortunately they are much harder to land now after the rework.
But you need to be a god with her to win games, haha. If so you completely dominate. She is Queen of the lane-phase and mid-game and even decent late-game if you can just land those pesky spears (SO SKINNY NOW OMG)
EDIT: Emphasis on needing to be a god. If you can't keep up on farm, can't land spears, and aren't abusing your power in jungle skirmishes, poke, isolated assassinations etc. you won't have a good time. She is really bad for the standard straight-up 5v5 team fighting that a lot of people like to build around in soloQ. If you don't poke before 5v5ing, you will likely lose and be completely useless.
Nakawaka1 votesI highly recommend you to not play her support unless you're both skilled with her and wanting to relax with something different. It might work with a Trist/Jinx (AS stacking) adc but with relic shield and nerfs to mana regen her poke is not as meaningful.
Nidalee generally wants to play more independently from her team as a split pusher. Teamfights wise there are more effective champions for targeting carries but you can peel for carries (iceborn), steroid your adc/bruiser, and being in this middle ground of front line melee and backline poker/support.
Of course, if it's free spears on a priority target and you think you can close to 100-0 by all means assassinate. I have find that building her with at least 300 bonus HP gets my job done.
Truth be told, many items can work with her and some difficult matchups can be negated with a simple item change. With practice and some experimentation you can build more intuitively.
Acidic Puddle1 votesI think a full AP mid Nidalee is the strongest atm.
3tyson1 votesI think nidalee is best in the jungle letting your traps and passives not go to waste like in mid
Having best chance hitting your spears by hitting them on nothing suspecting enemys instead of having to hit it on an enemy in lane wich expects it and will be prepared to dodge
her combo on jungle monsters is cat form al abilitys spear trap heal if u have blue than cat again use everything back to human spear and cat again since setting of the hunt resets cat abilitys
on champions you spear r w e q r q r q e w Repeat since the hunt mark reseta r and all cat abilitys
Plaguebringer D1 votesWhile that makes sense, most jungle Nidalees you see in low-mid ELO are beyond useless. So be prepared to really put some time into it if you want to learn how to jungle with her
3tyson1 votesI have my bad games but ive had some great games aswel
A good way to learn nidalee jg to me seemed trying suport nidalee cause its gonne teach you how to hit spears since thats the only thing you really can do as a suport
i started playing nidalee suport cause jt was more fun than regulair suport and i was a beginner it toughed me value of warding cause i was playing suport
but afther maining it for a while i am pretty confident im going to hit spears and its a good place to learn how to use your surroundings yo hit a spear