Talk:Nidalee/@comment-25473893-20140928063014/@comment-3323227-20140930203316

Thereason that she doesn't have a resource in cougar form is because of multiple reasons:

1. Cougar is melee and so are all it's abilities

2. Her abilities in human are already pretty well mana gated and due to their power at low mana costs and strains on Nidalee at higher mana costs putting mana costs on cougar would either make her human spells too easy to spam because of lower mana costs to make room for cougar mana costs or practical inability to even function as a champion due to too many mana constraints. They'd have to add a mana return system to her kit for this making her kit needlessly coplex/bloated.

3. Having to manage more than one resource is a pain in the ass especially when you are managing something like energy(low pool high regen) and then switching to mana(high pool low regen)

In short don't expect her cougar form to eve have a resource cost associated with it. There is nothing imba about her resourceless form.