Talk:Nidalee/@comment-26177260-20161224215545/@comment-26808509-20170111183646

Well, Nidalee is one of those champions which are really flexible. She can do a lot of things and can adabt to almost every situations and that's what made her so strong in the past. Riot then pushed her into a certain direction, being a jungle assassin and she fullfilled this role really good, maybe even too good, because she still had her flexibility.

Just reverting the nerfs she received isn't the right way, I'd say, because she could grow too dominant again. Also there is a big issue with her kit and her jungle clear. She is having a poor clear, but great single target burst. So if you increase her damage, in order to clear faster, her burst would grow stronger aswell. Also she is having some sort of sustain, although it's not that good early on and it would be unfair for an assassin to have a strong heal early on.

So what is Riot supposed to do? You can't simply buff either her clear or her sustain without making Nidalee dominant again, because these things were the issues before. In my opinion the only way to buff Nidalee, without making her OP, is simply reworking her human W. Currently it doesn't fullfill much purpose, because it's damage is too low to be relevant, it doesn't grant vision and it's easy to avoid. Since Nidalees passive doesn't root monsters anymore, there isn't much reason to use it for clearing camps aswell. It's simply a bad spell. They could rework this spell into something else, that helps her to survive the jungle and this could also give Riot a new approach for balancing Nidalee.