Talk:Nidalee/@comment-115.64.31.150-20121001125148/@comment-5010112-20121007130456

Ignore Dynomeath. Akali is actually not more viable than Nidalee.

Akali:

Pros:

- Massive burst damage post-6

- Amazing chasing potential post-6

- Amazing escaping potential post 6

''- Good Lane sustain (amazing lane sustain once you have gun-blade). ''

- Stealth

- Mixed damage (this means that the enemy cannot counter you by simply building armor, they have to build armor and MR)

''- Probably one of the best snowball champions in the game. She's right up there with Katarina, Talon, Kassadin, Vayne, and Tryndamere.''

''-Very strong mid-game presence. ''

- Melee

''- Low-skill cap. Easy champion to pick-up and use.''

Cons:

''- Has a hard time laning pre-6. ''

- Easily zoned pre-6

- Stealth reliant pre-6 (an early oracles/vision ward is a lost lane for Akali)

''- Needs kills to be a threat late game. ''

''- Dies off late game as people invest in health, oracles, and team-fights breakout. ''

Nidalee:

Pros: 

- Ranged

- Very difficult to zone early game

- Fast auto-attack animation

- Passive makes farming top much safer and easier

- Amazing map control-- better than Teemo's shrooms, imo (her traps cannot be destroyed and she doesn't have to wait until level 6). With some CDR, Nidalee can have up to 20 traps up at one time.

- Post-6 one of those most slippery champions in the game. She can jump over a lot of walls with that pounce ability.

- One of the best split pushers in the game.

- Bruiser/AD Nidalee can build tanky and still dish out a ton of damage with Q.

- Useful in team-fights with a massive heal and massive poke as AP.

- Even without AP, she still has the AS buff from the heal (give that to your Vayne). She has an armor/magic resistence shred.

Cons:

''- Pre-six damage is minimal for AD/Bruiser Nidalee builds. Her AS buff does allow her to win exchanges with many Melee champions''

''- Pre-six damage is reliant on a slow skill-shot for AP Nidalee builds. With practice the spears become easier to land''

''- No escape mechanism pre-6. ''

''- AP Nidalee cannot jump into the middle of a team-fight in cougar form without being burst down. ''

''- AP/AD Nidalee tend to die off late game once team-fights start. Ap more-so than AD. ''

''- High Skill-cap champion. To be a good Nidalee player, you have to be good at guessing where people are going to be when you can't see them. You also must know which walls you can jump over with pounce and how to do it. ''

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tl:dr

Nidalee:

Winrate over past two weeks for Gold elo: 50.8%

Pick Rate for gold elo: 9.07%

Akali:

Winrate over past twp weeks for Gold elo: 47.77%

Pick Rate for gold elo: 3.71%