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help me build nidalee please

3tyson·2/27/2015, 7:40:19 PM·2 votes·625 views

so i main nidalee in the jungle and im usualy pretty confident with hitting spears ofcourse not all of them but usualy enough of them

my build goes like this hunters machette wich il upgrade into trailblazer asap yes everyone thinks chillng smite is better but i like trailblazer allot more for my playstyle since it will give me more sustain most importand the extra mana wich can help me get just that 1 more spear of wich wil help my team/ get a kill

than i try and finish it asap next boots and depending on how im doing il upgrade them to wizard boots first usualy il go for morellonomicon first for the max cdr and the mana regen

than depending on how good im doing i either get rabadons rylais or if im doing terrible a sightstone, afther this it gets even more situational but i think you know enough of my build now to help me try and change it

the thing item thats been bugging me is twin shaddow it seem to be perfect for a jungle nidalee it has a long distance reveal/slow wich WILL hit, and this has so much potential on nidalee if you get it while laning phase, you could use it to slow people down before spearing them and wel good luck missing that spear while the second gosth looks for the counter jungler and it can be used while counter jungling

the thing my core build is the 40% cdr wich does allot for nidalee and the mana regen cause my blue might go to the mid laner/get stolen making me pretty useless without a morrellonicon

so basicly i could get jungle item, Ionian boots folowed by twin shaddow wich still gives me 45% cdr wasting the 5% and missing the magic pen but id stil be missing out on my mana regen wich seems huge to nidalee

i cant seem to find a solution

for runes i use ap quints, ap glypts, magic pen marks and armor per level seals masteries 22 2 5 cause some diamond player once told me that nidalees pounce stil scales with atk dmg idk if its true but it doesnt seem to do bad so far

4 Comments

Serevas2/27/2015, 7:58:58 PM2 votes

A lot of what I've seen people deal with the mana problem by buying items that expand the mana pool rather than buying mana regeneration. This allows you to throw more, but once you're out of mana, you're out.

The build that I like is as follows: item 3724 item 3100 item 3157 item 3110 item 3111 item 3026

This build provides you with 650 additional mana to utilize, a spellblade to let you pump out more damage, 40% CDR, about 280 AP from items, 200 armor, around 75 MR, tenacity, Zhonyas' stasis, and a revive passive. This build basically comes out with solid damage, pretty good survivability on the front lines, as you'll be there more than chucking spears from the back lines, with two ways to extend your life in a fight, being Zhonyas and Guardian Angel.

Lichbane has great contributions to the kit, as hitting takedown in cougar form gives you the spellblade passive added to your takedown for huge damage.

Alternatively you could trade item 3100 item 3110 for item 3065 item 3025 this will provide a bit more MR if you're against a heavy AP team, you'll still have a lot of the same stats, but with more MR, increased healing, and more HP as well as HP regen.

As for pounce scaling with AD it doesn't, it scales with AP, however takedown scales very heavily with both AD and AP, which is I think what he intended to say.

3tyson2/27/2015, 8:40:47 PM1 votes

currently my favorite build is something like this

item 3724 item 3165 item 3020 item 3089 item 3116 item 2045

where i hardly have anny defence and just stay away from enemys until im certain i can kill them in teamfights il trow spears from the back and i feel like vission is kind of nidalees defence item

i dont like item 3025 because i feel like item 3116 does allot more for my team since il be able to slow from a further distance have someone else jump him before i jump wich results in me not being targetted usualy

the problem is the only item wich really seems worth it to increase your mana pool would be item 3070 wich youd have to get early and as a jungler that doesnt seems like the best thing to do

item 3100 seems like a good item on nidalee but i dont think the 200 extra mana wil do that much for me ? like i said my main problem is trying to find a way to get item 3023 into my kit

item 3724 item 3023 item 3279 seems to do the trick on cdr but since your next buy should be something with allot of ap like item 3089 il be missing out on the mana regen and if for some reason i dont have the blue il be in mana problems while buying those first 3 items already

and it seems like a huge waste to do item 3724 item 3023 item 3020 item 3165 just for the mana regen cause youl be trowing away 10% cdr yet stil have mana problems

and if youd build like item 3724 item 3165 item 3020 item 3023

youl lose the advantage of using twin shaddow while laning phase often making it rather useless

Drunk Rummate2/27/2015, 8:56:18 PM1 votes

item 1039 start obviously. with her sustain you can clear 4 camps and the scuttle crab. Either gank or invade at this point, or recall if you'd rather play it safe.

At this point depending on the enemy jungler I will either build item 3706 or item 3711 because Nidalee is one of the best jungle champions for invading and she doesn't really need trailblazer because her clear is so absurdly strong.

I try to stick around long enough to also buy item 3070 on my first recall because it essentially gives you infinite mana due to the free stacking in cougar form.

Magus enchantment and item 3040 are my two first items, and from there I build item 3020 item 3089 item 3135 item 3157 in whatever order I feel is necessary depending on the enemy composition and items that they're building.

3tyson2/27/2015, 9:11:23 PM1 votes

problem with item 3070 is that nidalee has such great early game power wich you ruin with this tear

like i said i prefere item 3713 cause it regens hp and mana gives you an easy clear wich gives you a bit more time to stick around for a gank

since as a jungler you are already behind on lanes in gold getting a tear seems bad