Talk:Nidalee/@comment-24509120-20140406180050/@comment-7460908-20140409042134

Skill to land isn't a factor when people just spam them willy-nilly. When I say I never have a problem with Nidalee's spears, it's because the spears aren't the biggest problem in her kit. If you compare the the damage that Karthus does with as many Lay Wastes as he can cast during Nidalee's Javelin Toss windows, Karthus severly outdamages Nidalee. So why don't more people complain about Karthus? Don't say "range", because that's a shitty excuse. If you're not warding, you're a scrub, and again, a max range Nid spear has a higher "delay" than Lay Waste does.

That's the problem with Nidalee. There's no "using her spells effectively", there's just using the spells because they're there. "I need to kill this guy from range, how am I going to do it? Guess I'll throw a spear. Is he dead? Well, I guess I better throw another spear. Can't really damage with my other human form spells, and I can't close a ~1500 range gap with my 375-range Pounce. Oh shit, I got damaged, time to heal myself." There's no logical means of comboing Nidalee's skills- no mechanical cohesion to her kit whatsoever.

If you want a terrific example of a champion- rather, a hero- who has terrific self-synergy, take a look atHuskar from DotA 2. Every component in his kit works remarkably well with every other component in his kit. Nidalee's doesn't. The individual skills are strong, but they just don't have much point being put together.

I've been playing Nidalee since preseason S2, and I've been wanting a rework ever since they axed her Armor/MR at the start of S3. Nothing Karma-level (although that admittedly made her infinitely better); closer to what they did to Trundle more than anything- just round him out a little more while maintaining his mechanical and strategic integrity. In short, make Nidalee much better in terms of overall usability.

Final note: They say the bugs were fixed a few patches ago, but I'll be damned if I haven't seen, (or in this case, have seen) my fair share of invisible Nid spears, Ez ults, Jayce blasts, etc. since then.