User blog comment:Sagee Prime/Sagee Prime's Nidalee rework... returns/@comment-3323227-20140608015614/@comment-6281696-20140610184443

At 1/3th for AoE it'd still work for both AD and AP. Though I suppose a full AP build might be on the weak side regenwise.

15% at max stacks is probably the absolute maximum, and even that is quite powerfull, especially for AD given that you're giving an AD caster spellvamp, which most of them don't have normally. Maybe have her gain lifesteal based on AD and spellvamp based on AP at appropriate rates so both still benefit from the heal but AD doesnt get massive amounts of spellvamp and AP doens't end up with high lifesteal?

That would be fairly acceptable. I still think it shouldn't be true damage but partially ignore resistance, as said don't like true damage regardless. Proper tanks have a difficult enough time as is at the moment. Also, if it kills at 20% it should have a fairly long CD, she has swipe to fight with anyway.

Doesn't her ult increase the effectiveness of her cougar skills? That seems rather usefull. Also, if you ignore the fact that his ultimate allows him to switch between two forms, Jayce his ultimate barely does anything on its own. Nidalees ult improves the skills in one of her forms, that's already a large difference.

Putting 6 skills in the other stuff I'd be fine with.

My point is that I expect the rework to do fairly little to change the playstyle, there's still too much power in the spears to be abused and she is still more than mobile enough to avoid most champions. Though your suggestions at least reduce, if not negate, the burst heal which was a major pain in lane & the spear is obviously toned down considerably. And to be honest I suspect her Q will always have this issue, that range advantage is just extremely powerfull. It's the same with trynda's ulti, or Thresh's lantern, or blitz's grab, and a number of other abilities, regardless of what you do those spells will mechanicly always be good regardless of the numbers backing it up.

As for abuse vs playing a champion correctly, the difference is that abuse relies on using something that wasn't intended to work, or at least was intended to be considerably weaker. AP yi and AP tryndamere were good examples of that, it was never intended to be a viable build on them, but people will abuse any advantage they can get. And yes that is pretty much the same as playing optimally, just not (entirely) as intended... It's more similar to abusing a bug than to playing optimal, it isn't exactly cheating, but it is abusing some flaw in the balancing.