User blog comment:ClariS/Nidalee & Unhealthy State/@comment-6000413-20140424142310

Completely agree with you, Shenwang and The5lacker. They solved nidalee's issues on another champion: elise. All the current health damage in human form and missing health damage in spider form is the part of elise's kit that would fit nida's concept. She should have some advantage to start fights at a distance and finish them in close quarters.

Elise has current-health/missing-health.

Nida could apply a debuffing stack on the enemies hit, that slows/impedes them and increases the damage of the cougar form abilities. Traps could do the same, maybe removing the armor/mr debuff, giving stacks instead.

Pounce should have longer CDs, around 10s, reduced by ~0.5 s per stacks on enemies hit.

Primal surge/swipe could give her passively a healing on-hit and a human form active similar to that to be activated on herself or ally champion, all increasing with stacks.

That would bring her to be a hunter: acceptable poke and mobility, but very good long term damage on single or few targets: once a few spears and traps hit you she can just jump in and finish you, but will otherwise have a really hard time killing you from a distance.