User blog comment:Contractas1/Nidalee - Mistake or Miracle?/@comment-24037171-20131103172435

Nidalee I think is best as an AP midlaner simply because of her spear, the fact that Pounce and Swipe scale with AP. In addition, her cougar form Q just deals ridiculous amounts of damage even without a butt-ton of AD behind it. So long as you hit one spear and are close enough to leap in with Pounce, you can pretty much chunk the enemy. I feel that she's OP with AP (which is why I play her AP, heheheh), and thusly I think she's best as a midlane. I'd say her design is somewhat both - Riot likely didn't intend her to fit into pretty much every lane minus jungle, but she does it anyway.