User blog comment:Sagee Prime/Nidalee rework Final/@comment-4990650-20121001090719/@comment-3323227-20121001171835

Nidalee definitely needs something but I don't think just buffs would fix her. Its in her very core mechanics that makes her bad. You can rock the house with her and still lose because she lacks the ability to truly carry.

Most of these changes were geared for AP Nidalee and had the intention of making one item good on her again but not making that item mandatory or even needed. The item in question id Guinsoo's Rage Blade. You see I'm a very old school Nidalee and Bruiser was the way to go back in the day long before Hot Shot was known for anything. Rage Blade, nashors, and Frozen heart with trinity and BT gave you max CDR tons of damage and lifesteal. You were hard to catch and hard to kill and could kill most champion no problem but as the game advanced this strategy was killed of and newer items and champion made it ineffective later on anyway.

AP Nidalee got a buff and that where I started playing her. I held on to my fondness for the rage blade but started building AP but that soon got destroyed. I honestly don't think even old AP Nidalee could stand up to the current line up. Despite what you might see in high elo game "vVv Bischu" for instance it is not viable. Those guys at that elo are all trolling eachother. They play against eachother regularly and just play w/e the hell is fun with little care for wins or losses.

The trap change was to make you less reliant on landing them but i see your concerns. Are you really worried about someone stacking 20 traps in a brush for 4 minutes? At some point that is just totally trolling like AP shaco. Sure you may be able to instagib one guy but you wasted 4 minutes. Either way it wouldn't hurt to put a dot on it.

Lastly Her clunkiness was not intended it is just a poor feature of development from the time she was made. I guarantee that if she came out today she would not be as clunky.