Talk:Nidalee/@comment-88.207.114.244-20130124184956/@comment-128.153.217.146-20130124202118

If you go full glass cannon AP, that's how you're supposed to feel when your Q is on cooldown. You'll be a spear-bot and little more. Alternately, you could go tanky AP with a Lich Bane and items like Abyssal, Frozen Heart, GA, etc, then make use of cougar form abilities. As AP Nidalee, your main objective is to whittle the enemy down from a distance, then go in as soon as you see an opening with cougar form.

Also, though a lot of people like building AA just because Nid charges a Tear incredibly fast, an Athene's is often a much better choice for mana. It gives you virtually infinite mana, and although it doesn't give as much AP as Seraph's, it gives CDR and MR, both of which Nidalee can make good use of.