User blog comment:Contractas1/Nidalee - Mistake or Miracle?/@comment-4296199-20131105012648

I always felt as though Nid was too extreme in too many areas. Riot felt that since her human form didn't really have much for "combos" they put all of her immediate damage into one move. The result is that a long range spear with freakin' ulti damage on a 6 second CD. They sorta gimped themselves when they made her like that, especially with her heal's massive power and attack speed boost?! Why would she need attack speed?! When Nunu uses bloodboil, at least he can use it. What's Nid gonna do, build as an adc or something?

I totally agree about that fucking pounce. That kind of mobility is something Riot kept saying should not be happening without limitations and here is a champion that has a low CD wall jumper. If they wanted her to be mobile, why did they give such as easy for of mobility like this? Even Kass has a limitation on how much jumps he can do.

Well that's most of my gripe, but those are big issues. Her numbers are so ludicrous that it kinda makes the fact that she can't really combo moot. Who needs to put effort into one combo when a relatively cheap spear throw does more damage than even that?

If they want to do something to reward players to land these spears rather than spam it, increase the CD, put rewards when she hits someone with the spear other than damage, something like that. If she gets even a little mana sustain, she's gonna chuck over 500 base magic damage spears with impunity. I'd say more but this is an eyeful isn't it?