User blog comment:Raknut/My Nidalee rework- v1.0/@comment-9705522-20140526203524/@comment-6281696-20140526210202

Based on these AP numbers I'd see her played more like AP Cho & Naut, lots of tanky ap items as opposed to glass canon 900 AP builds. Considerably more fun to deal with to be honest.

As for negating the spear spam, how about a scaling mana cost, say every cast doubles the mana cost of the next X seconds, say twice the CD, up to a cap. It'd prevent her from spamming it, but it'd still allow harrasement with it or finishing off things. Plus it'd actually give the abilities in cougar form a reason to be manaless.