Talk:Nidalee/@comment-91.181.236.63-20121006194333/@comment-3546228-20121006233528

She's not designed as a bruiser. Nidalee was originally an AP/hybrid carry champion, that Riot just nerfed to the ground because she was widely abused in tournaments and high Elo for her high laning power and split pushing.

It's not just the nerfs that killed her though. She's nearly unviable now because of the combination of problematics she has and a bunch of bugs and weaknesses.

What could possibly fix her is a complete remake. New model and animations (voiceovers would be cool too) and a new kit. Her concept as a hybrid between a support, fighter and mage carry is super awesome and they should keep that, but they should also give her a focus.

A few suggestions I've thought about:

Make Javelin Toss a hybrid scaling ability that slows on impact, so Nidalee can chain these and actually follow up her harassment, but also make it cost more mana on consecutive hits.

Make Bushwhack reveal for less time but trigger immediately on placement, so it's actually useful for chasing. The MR/armor shred is awesome but should be nerfed to make up for the easier usability.

Primal Surge's attack speed does not make sense on Nidalee's burst damage kit. It should give a steroid more useful for her, like AD, AP or simply buff her next ability. The heal is cool, but the problem is it forces her to build mana and mana regen if she were to use it to it's full extent. Riot should just either remove it or do the usual treatment - rework the ability so it forces her to push her lane, like, make her sacrifice/eat an enemy minion to receive a heal.

Cougar abilities are pretty good as they are now, just remove the bugs and pathing problems.

Make Takedown scale with crit like Garen's shit.

Make Pounce a skillshot.

The armor/mr buff is laughable, give her a flat 10% damage reduction or a debuffing aura.