Nidalee/Strategy

==Strategy==

Skill Usage

 * is useful for champion harassing, and the can help you chase fleeing enemies.
 * abilities cost no mana, so it is effective to use to push or jungle.
 * Since costs no mana, it can be endlessly cast which makes it a good chasing and escaping ability.
 * is a great scout. Putting in as many places as possible can warn your team and you about gank attempts or lonely targets in jungle. Combined with,  can grant great map control.  is ignored by enemy turrets, but cannot be teleported to.
 * When fighting a team with great gankers, such as, it's really helpful for your team if you make sure the brushes around you always has a trap that reveals such champions.
 * With some mana regen masteries/runes/item, Nidalee can set many before creeps spawn. Ask junglers where they are starting and trap the surrounding area; this is especially effective against preventing Eve and Twitch from ganking, as both Nidalee's  and  can hit stealthed units.
 * Switching to and farming creeps can be much more effective in earning gold rather than using normal form to last hit.
 * Precasting then  can surprise enemies, or last hit heroes by tower while still leaving your  as a get away.
 * With good harrassing abilities, good farming abilities, good escape abilities, and the staying power of self-heals with, Nidalee is an excellent solo laner and is a good choice to hold the 1v2 top lane if your team has a jungler.

Build Usage

 * works quite well with Nidalee, since switching to and from not only costs no mana, its cooldown is also shorter than the duration of the 's stacks, so she can continually switch to and from  to always have the item's maximum 8 stacks. Alternatively, you can repeatedly use  when moving outside of combat as it also cools down faster than the Rageblade.
 * and its derivative items and  are exceptionally powerful combined with the fast cooling abilities of Nidalee's, especially.
 * Consider buying a because  has great escape abilities and can maintain her stacks more easily than other champions.
 * Since abilities cost no mana, it is very effective to spam her skills to gain mana from.

Countering

 * Nidalee relies on eing able to heal constantly so she can get into fights and deal damage so using on her is an effective way to keep her from returning to a figh or killing her if she tries to run.
 * If Nidalee is about land a finishing blow on you with you can possibly save your self with  if timed right.
 * Nidalee is very susceptable to hard CC and cannot provide any of her own so CC her as soon as she comes into range of your team can get her killed very quickly.
 * If you are chasing Nidalee and you are both at low health it is highly advised not to follow her into brush as this is a chance for her to change form and heal right before reversing the tide of the battle.