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Need Nidalee Jungle help really badly

Codiac Shift·5/17/2015, 10:27:05 PM·2 votes·751 views

Okay, so i know Nidalee is strong, and i was fairly decent with her before i took a month break from playing League due to school work, and when i picked her up again i found myself doing nowhere near as good as i had been. Of course some of it is due to just lack of practice and use, but i feel like the way i'm going about it all is wrong. What i usually try to do with her is run around and clear camps at first, starting with the easy wolf camp to take it myself without needing a leash (burn my smite, Q, switch to cougar, and start Qing as much as i can, usually a health potion is used) I ten usually head across the jungle to bot where the smite bonus creeps are and kill them. Pretty much the same process except now i have my E that i use to heal and scratch as well. Burn my last potion and get the wraiths before recalling usually. In team fights or ganks i usually try to catch them with my Q if they run, heal anyone/myself with E, and close on them before switching to cougar and fighting them. That's usually where i feel like i go wrong. How should i be doing this? My ganks always seem to end with me burning my flash and leaping away as a cougar. Should i not be closing to fight, and sit back poke them instead? Should i not focus as much on ganks unless i can steal a kill or someone needs help? Should i build my Nidalee differently? I really like her as a champ because of how useful she seems like she could be, i just don't know exactly where i'm going wrong. On items i follow the suggested item sets it gives for Nidalee.

When and how should i use the cougar, and when should i hang back as a human and poke?

6 Comments

ShinobisDemon5/18/2015, 1:29:33 AM2 votes

Well as a NId main I play her jg alot. What I tend to usually do is. Start gromp with a leash from top. Then i get my blue buff. I then try to land a spear in midlane, if i can't i keep going to bot lane. I usually can hit the adc or support here and force them back. Nidalee needs alot of AP to shred people so before like level 4 unless someone is really bad you just want to push your lanes in your teams favour/favor. If bot gets a kill from your spear then back for items. i go devour-er with the AP enchantment usually. Then run straight top top lane w'ing for more speed and attack the top laner.

NIdalee has unrivaled ganked after level 4.

She has better lane kill potential than lee sin / rengar.

And she is a safer ganker because you aren't likely to give someones lane a double.

Spell order for me is usually.

Q E W Q E R Q Q Q E R E W E W R W W

I try to scale Q first while working on my E.

When pushing towers use E on your adc.

Go solid mana bc ad nid is kind of pointless imo.

Itemmmmsss

Start: item 1039 item 2003 item 2003

Loosing First Back: can't find a pic but, start of devourer magus. (purple axe)

Winning First back: Almost the entire devourer magus. (purple book and stuff)

MId GAMe item 3003 (if you need to poke alot) item 3174 (if you don't get archangels) item 3135 Practically required item 3512 (if your team sucks and you need to push) item 3116 (IF you keep getting 1 hi the stats are nice) item 3020 (best boots for her imo pen is amazing) item 3089 ( It's deathcap... nearer to the end of the game when there isn't time to jg anymore i ususally sell my jg item and buy this) item 3285 ( You need this) item 3100 (if they are squishy and you can spear jump Q kill jump) item 3222 (if your adc is super fed but doesn't have an escape, paired with E you can get them to full hp) item 3165 ( NIce stats and a burn, I usually don't get it though) item 3152 ( Spell vamp is delicious. 1 spear to get back to full hp)

My usual full build: item 3151 {{item :3174}} item 3135 item 3285 item 3255 item 3152 item 3340

Skia Asteri5/17/2015, 10:42:42 PM1 votes

Form switching is an auto reset, using it and the the atuo reset from Take Down properly greatly speeds up clearing camps at early levels.