Talk:Nidalee/@comment-8475440-20140614205339

Considering the current rework status, where she seems to be somewhere between a squishy bruiser and a poke assasin (given the cougar burst now is probably lower and you need to use two or more rotations of her abilities to assasinate), I wonder if a redesign of her human heal E could be a good idea.

Perhaps it could be reworked towards a more offensive sustain ability (with a LONG CD). That could adress her frustrating passive sustain and give her the chance to burst someone if the combo is chained properly. Something like she evoking a cougar spirit, which runs a fixed medium distance in a direction and then comes back to Nidalee's current position (in a similar fashion to Ahri's Orb but slower), running through enemy units and champions, being ONLY the last champion hit marked as Prey, and damaging them for X and healing Nidalee for a percentage of it. This would give her a chance at catching distracted enemy backliners when being blocked by tanks and such.

Either that or rework the attack speed steroid, which in my opinion offers little to herself seeing how the rest of the new kit works.

I have long time mained and loved Nidalee, despite her sometimes confusing kit and I longed to see her reworked into a more cohesive champion (which she will be after this one in my opinion), but I am afraid that wtihout the proper tools she will be again unable to cougar effectively in teamfights and be left in a conceptually similar but weaker spear-bot state.