Talk:Nidalee/@comment-4834593-20140102163649/@comment-4834593-20140122205005

Do you know what the difference between you and me is? You are theorizing, I have seen it ingame.

Her Q is very hard to be theorized about. No matter how good you understand this game, there will always be a difference in how often you think someone gets hit, and how often someone actually gets hit (people always say "but noone above silver ever gets hit by one" and stuff, but then why is she picked in the LCS sometimes? Not to mention that the LCS clearly shows even pros can't dodge every spear).

Her E is mostly an attack speed buff, and a pretty neat one at that. The only ones that have both duration and strength as long as Nidalee are, if I am not mistaken, Nunu (melee) and Tristana (one of the three hypercarries). And Nidalee is, again if I'm not mistaken, the only ranged champion in the game that can have her attack speed buff permanently with as only reduction of the duration CDR (so not a Runaan's Graves or something like that. Just simple cdr). And to get that 30%... 5% masteries, 15% boots (berserker's greaves suck, so why not buy cdr instead?), and maybe you can get a blue or something? Or just leave it at 20 and have 82.5% uptime of your AS buff.

Her melee Q: Let me just tell you that I myself didn't believe the insane damage I pumped out with that thing as AD carry Nidalee. Mostly when coupled with Thresh or Leona burst and my W and E of melee form. Heck, I'm not even building Sheen on Nidalee and I already kill AD carries from 30% health at level 6. And whatever you can say about it, it's simply facts that I deal so much damage against someone who just has armor seals and a doran's blade.

Her escape: yeah, she can't damage in the meanwhile, if it's more than one enemy chasing her (if it's only one you turn around and wreck them with that broken Q). But she's still better at escaping than, say, Kog'maw or Varus (without 100s cd ult).

All I can REALLY say though, is try it yourself, and you will see.