Talk:Nidalee/@comment-4866057-20130710111345/@comment-3323227-20130823181153

I seemed to have missed this but ok. Her kit is not amazing and quite honestly its all over the place and doesn't mesh at all.

Javelin Toss wants to be a max range to be fully effective and does nothing but damage.

Takedown wants to be in melee when you are near death to be effective.

Bushwhack wants you to step on it and try to fight.

Primal Surge scales with AP and has a huge mana cost plus it gives attackspeed to champion with really nothing but auto attacks for harass but nor other steroids on her auto attacks. You're wasting potential with this skill no matter how you build her.

Pounce wants to be in an open area with no walls or minions to be effective and decides to go where it pleases when any of those are present. and the same goes for Swipe. She is supposed to be a fast agile cat but she is more like a obscenely fat kit when it comes to agility. Agility =/= mobility

She does not function as Riot has implied she was meant to nor does she function as the original designer intended.

As for building her tanky... It doesn't matter if you go ap or tanky AD you still have a weak early game, an early game dependent mid game and early game dependent lackluster lategame. She no longer has any notable niche as there are too many champion invading her territory of gameplay and they all do it better than her while being better at all stages of the game. Nidalee is not a good duelist and if you think so you are doing something terribly wrong. If she is out dueling someone with the right items its because she is fed not because she is naturally capable of doing it.