Talk:Nidalee/@comment-5057599-20140619001647/@comment-8506165-20140619193611

AD bruiser Nid is nerfed if anything. Sure, Takedown's max damage is higher, but it's as magic damage, meaning that ArPen does almost nothing for you, and if you build MPen... well, why not just go AP in the first place if you've got no ArPen for your AAs?

It's harder to counterbuild early, sure. That's a fairly universal trait of hybrid damagers. But before AD Nidalee had a Takedown that was almost as strong (only 33% AD weaker in the case of max damage) that benefited from ArPen, more frequent Pounces and armor-shredding traps. Found her much scarier as a laner back then.