Talk:Nidalee/@comment-5211662-20140624173514/@comment-5057599-20140624223633

Yeah she's a bullshit top laner, mostly due to having cougar form since lvl 1 which made bruiser Nid's early game 10x more frustrating than it ever was.

My suggestion is to play ranged champions. Quinn, Jayce and Ryze can trade harder than Nid with autos and abilities as long as you don't trigger her passive, and obviously she can't zone ranged champions the same way she does against melees. If you want tanky champions then Mundo, Shyvana and Shen are your best bets because they naturally build tanky, they're resourceless and they can farm from distance with abilities, and they can take teleport to compensate for Nid's bigger laning presence. What you do in these lanes is just take cs when you can and rush a Negatron/Spectre's Cowl into Sunfire Cape to survive her burst and push the lane out faster.

Almost every other common top laner will struggle against bruiser Nidalee, she's basically a season 2 Yorick. If you're stuck with a bad match-up take teleport and hope for the best.

And hey, if you just want to be an even bigger dick than the guy who picked Nid you can go always go Caitlyn top and outplay her at her own game.