Talk:Nidalee/@comment-64.134.223.4-20120430200215/@comment-68.98.9.242-20120501032133

She's rated so low because of her lack of a teamfight presence, yes she does well in lane, is hard to gank and so on, but then again she lacks any form of cc for her own team's ganks and really doesn't contribute to teamfights.

She doesn't bring any cc or real aoe damage to teamfights, she's just a single target bruiser with no cc. If you don't win your lane enough that you put the enemy top at a relatively severe disadvantage then your simply not an asset to your team. Single target damage is the focus of the ad carry, who will be doing much more of it than nidalee from a generally safer distance (i'm assuming as an AD nidalee your going to be using cougar/takedown)

If you play AP nidalee then well...you can poke, lay down an 18 second cooldown trap and hope the target you want happens to ignore it and walk over, and...do a heal/buff. The q isn't guaranteed to land and if the enemy hard engages on your team then well....too bad too sad.

It can just be hard to justify playing Nidalee over kennen/vlad/rumble if you play AP who bring in mechanics for your team will do more damage once you've engaged and kennen of course brings in aoe stuns, or over let's say udry/riven if you play AD who will be tanking just as much as you AD as well as providing some cc for your team and still doing.