Talk:Nidalee/@comment-4434378-20120605021316/@comment-81.226.176.44-20120613155759

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Of course she's not useless in teamfights, I was just saying she doesn't fill the same role of most solotops but instead falls into a more supportish role. It's just that now soemone else has to fill the role that other solo tops do and jump on the enemy carry or provide AoE or CC. The jungler can fill the carry diver role and the AP carry can fill the AoE or CC role, she just fits best into a comp that already has those things to allow her to go more supportish and possibly protect her own carry from divers and giving her own carry the AS buff.

And yes the ability to shut down top laner/jungler is amazing and obviously that is why I play her myself. The ability to shut down the enemy in laning phase is pretty huge and if you do it well enough it balances out your poor scaling into mid/late game since you have effectively negated the enemies' scaling.