Talk:Nidalee/@comment-24509120-20140406180050/@comment-15280970-20140407235059

she is not OP, she has a toxic game play. Remember AP yi? He was toxic because he had one of the less interactive laning phases (afk farm infinite sustain free harass) and then just got resets in teamfights without you being able to do something, but he had to go melee and get a kill and lacked cc and reliability and cc killed him so he wasn't "OP".

Now nidalee= toxic champion, can kill from insane range, 0 risk 100 reward. Sustain bitch. Of course she gives up utility AOE damage for that and the enemy team will have superior teamfighting so she is "balanced".

The problem with Toxic champs? Exploitability(ask dignitas). Max range spears aimed from fog ofwar, max range spears aimed to cced enemies. No interaction at all. Then easy time getting away. Like kassadin pre rework, nerfed to hell in numbers but with the same kit so he was still exploitable.

Healthy champions have interaction, they risk something to get something, they have weaknesses that they should take care about and will get their goal if those weaknesses aren't exploited.

She is a very hard champion to balance overall, because her damage isn't reliable but it is exploitable.