User blog comment:Contractas1/Nidalee - Mistake or Miracle?/@comment-2094543-20131105074234

I think "Individually overpowered spells kept balanced by a lack of crowd control, combos, synergy or reliability" is what they were deliberately going for when they designed Nidalee... or vice versa "Let's make this champion's damage output extremely situational so we can shoot the numbers through the roof"...

and while the experience of playing against her is debatable to say the least, it works from a balancing standpoint.