Talk:Nidalee/@comment-88.88.224.80-20130225120008/@comment-216.229.75.118-20130301025649

She scales mainly off of AP, although the her base damage for her skills is high enough that people can get away with building her bruiser/AD.

AP nidalee focuses primarily on bringing utility to team fights, with her armor/MPen shred, her spammable heals, her attack speed buffs, and she's great for poking. A couple good spears can win a team fight before it even happens.

Bruiser/AD nidalee doesn't bring as much utility for team fights, as her heals don't really do much other than give your adc an attack speed buff. You basically end up going in cougar form and trying to assassinate the squishier carries, relying on your Q in cougar form for your damage. (Her cougar form  is the only ability that scales off AD) People typically like to use bruiser/AD nidalee to split push lanes, as she can heal herself for attack speed, then go cougar form and spam Q + sheen procs. AND she can get away with it. You can't chase a nidalee through the jungle. It just won't happen. Although APs are usually more slippery, as they usually end up with some sort of CDR, allowing for more spammable leaps.

People will tell you taht AP nidalee is all about their spear, but they're just as wrong as the people that tell you Karthus is all about his R. If you play AP nidalee, you will always be busy doing something to help your team out, whetehr it's trapping stuff, healing people, split pushing, or poking. People will also tell you that AD nidalee is all about her takedown, and that she sucks because she has no CC. But again, they're just wrong. Nidalee is a great champ overall that can be played to adapt to nearly anything. People are starting to wake up to this fact, I think, now that they're seeing the pros play them more, but really you just gotta go play her and good with her. She's fun, you'll be glad you bought her I think.