Talk:Nidalee/@comment-4636093-20140606035928

The rework seems awesome so far. She very much keeps a poking playstyle. She even keeps her poke/heal/run away playstyle if you want but is far less effective at it. Mostly because the spear is a lot harder to land now, it still deals a crapton of damage when it does but you always feel like "Man I could have dodged that" instead of "What the fuck?! I was standing behind 3 creepwaves and a 6 stack Cho'Gath!".

And oh god... 1 second ult cooldown. You won't believe how fast you can push keys now, it's like playing Ryze. W,Q,R,W,Q,R,E,R,W,Q,R,Q,R..... chaining on into infinity... Dayum.

A few criticisms of the rework and that is there isn't really a reason to use many of her empowered cougar form abilities. Pounce becoming a 700 range targeted gapcloser is infinitely better than 33% extra damage on takedown or Pounce's cooldown being lowered by less than 1.5 seconds.

And the other criticism is that her human form skills may be a bit TOO hard to land now. Especially since spear is still a huge part of her damage, and is vital to her combo (or combos in her case.. did I mention how fast she can pump out spells? I still can't get over how giggety my hand feels after playing her for 30 minutes..). Bushwack is barely reliable at all as a damage source and since the mark only lasts 4 seconds you'll hardly be able to capitalize on enemies who walk into a bush and hit one you layed earlier, you do get A LOT of bonus move speed but if you're half the lane away then you still won't be able to catch up and eat them.

And the FINAL cricisism which is linked to the second one, her spear's model is A LOT bigger than the hitbox on it now, so it does appear to go through people at times Touhou style.

TL;DR: Oh god she's fun.