User blog comment:ClariS/Nidalee & Unhealthy State/@comment-9048637-20140420155401

Very well said. I feel you have hit the nail precisely on the head (though The5lacker beneath me also makes some good supplementary points, I feel).

Also, to those disagreeing: obviously I respect your right to disagree, but a number of you seem to have rather missed several crucial points from the blog, most noticeably:

1) The difference between 'overpowered' (or 'unbalanced') and 'unhealthy' or 'toxic'. ClariS explicitly noted that they weren't trying to argue that Nidalee is overpowered, rather that she has an unhealthy style of gameplay regardless of the state of her numbers.

2) Whilst the javelins are a problem, this is mostly a case of overtuned numbers; what ClariS noted as Nidalee's most unhealthy ability (and I wholeheartedly agree with this) was instead Primal Surge, since it has practically no gameplay to it, gives her absurd safety beyond the point of reasonableness and means that if you don't manage to finish Nidalee off during an all-in, even if she only escapes by the skin of her teeth, once she has even a little AP you soon find that you may as well not have bothered (which, might I add, is even more egregious given a) Nidalee's ability to escape and b) if you try playing a poke match with her beforehand, you're playing into her game and are probably going to lose, hard).

Of course, there are doubtless counter-arguments to be made here, but if you're going to disagree with the blog, you're going to want to address the points it actually makes, not the points everyone else makes when complaining about AP Nidalee.