User blog comment:Contractas1/Nidalee - Mistake or Miracle?/@comment-8050014-20131105121731/@comment-2112140-20131105144557

Well, this wasn't a blog asking for help on choosing a champion but np :D Knowing when to use her ultimate isn't the only thing that's hard about Nidalee though? Why put traps if you know they'll be useless? I sometimes see Nidalee put a random trap in the middle of the lane only to have it struck by a minion.

Support Nidalee makes me sad, she provides nothing other than heal and massive poke. Her traps aren't always sprung and the enemy support can activate them and ward the bush to warn the jungle for traps. Also the Cougar form becomes pretty much useless since you either use it for comboes or for escape and most Support Nidalee's just build pure AP.

ADC Nidalee? I know she has a good steroid but does she really have the feeling of an ADC?

I'm not sure why would someone recommend Nidalee for a beginner. Begginers would most likely waste all their mana then not have enough for their Heal when they need it.

The things hard about Nidalee: Teamfight role - Teamfights for Nidalee are usually 4v5 for her team because if you're building AP Nidalee you can't jump into the middle of the teamfight you have to only spam spears and hope they hit, if you come in range to heal some gapcloser might be used to you only to find you dead in seconds.

Laning Phase - Conserving mana is key. Sadly some players won't conserve it and end up running on low mana with no mana for heal when Nidalee really needs it.

Knowing when to maximize the use of every ability - Unlike a hero like Annie(who takes not as much skill to play as Nidalee) Nidalee needs to use the abilities at the right time to get the maximum benefit from them, now this might make you think "heh he proboably spams spears in laning phase aswell" and yes I do I don't achieve maximum effectiveness with my skill uses but I don't just randomly use them, I try to use them when I am 80% sure they'll hit and they usually hit when I think so. Also a melee range spear isn't the most terrible thing ever. It deals damage like a normal spell instead of as an unique nuke at melee range.