Talk:Nidalee/@comment-86.151.235.247-20120709195633/@comment-3323227-20120709223228

If it works for you congrats. It doesn't work for me :/

If you take Nidalee mid in mid to high elo ranked half the time you get stomped on mid and can't trade with the other mids. All you do is sit back and passively farm. All your damage is easy for ranged mages to avoid and they can normally poke you through minions. You also don't benefit from the brush as much either.

I normally take her top and play her in a variety of fashions. AP bruiser, AP poker, AD Bruiser, or lifesteal tank.

I go AP bruiser when our team lack allot of magic damage but also needs a tanky champion on the team. I go AP poker when we lack AP but I already had Nidalee picked and we have tanky bruisers. I go Bruiser most games when we need a tanky physical damage dealer and the top lane is another tanky physical damage dealer. I go lifesteal tank when the top lane is a AP caster or hybrid caster/sustained damage dealer.

I stopped getting rage blade due to Nidalee's high mana inefficiencies and the last time i built it within the last 6 months was about 3 weeks ago. Nidalee's mana costs are way too high to be tossing my favorite item on her for me at least.