User blog comment:Shigfugjum/Claw AND Spear: A Proposed Nidalee Rework/@comment-4888212-20140426024159/@comment-4888212-20140426025535

further, what would her role be?

support? hardly. the same as elise is hardly a support.

you want her to be built tanky. but you flagged her as assassin.

she will not work as assassin.

she has a lowrange dash, and only 1 ranged damage ability, that is easy to dodge and deals now very bad damage (veigar deals more with his Q, its targetted, etc etc).

she has no chance to lockdown an enemy. she gains a slow when he is out of her reach. doesnt scream synergy.

she has low damage output. to go into a fight to kill somebody in melee, she would have to build tanky, thus losing on the damage. thats maybe a bruiser. but certainly not an assassin.

the way you made is would mean it would be best to play her as tank with full CDR and magicpenetration.

i feel the only way to make nidalee a viable assassin would be to make her scale off AD more. most melee assassins are AD, that comes from the nature of when youre already in there, you can at least deal damage with autoattacks as well.

but as i see it, a pantheon does everything she does, but better.

dash, slow/stun, defensive steroid, targetted damage with more damage/scaling.

why did you axe the spear so low tho? when it doesnt increase in damage with the range it travels, why not give it a higher number in the first place.

i also feel like giving her W in cougarform a higher CD that scales down to 3.5 at lvl 5 of the ability.

that way she wont gain a one-point-wonder, but you will actually have to consider how comfortable you are in lane and how much you need it.