Talk:Nidalee/@comment-4834593-20130104141819/@comment-67.149.180.83-20130104171943

I am very experienced as Nidalee (to the fact she is the only champion I have spent money on for a skin) but I play her almost always AP. My experiences as AD Nidalee always go well, since she is such a strong champion.

I will try my best to go through each stage of the game (early, mid, late).

When the game starts buy boots and health potions, Nidalee always needs the speed. Make sure you never have a full on encounter with the enemy top before level 6. You will most certainly lose because of her low close range damage in human form early game. Stay in the brush. Run out to attack enemy champion or last hit, make sure to never attack while standing in the brush, it will ruin your cover. If the enemy runs at you or moves closer to your tower than you, retreat, because they can, and will, force a fight. Just keep harassing and pushing them out of lane.

Once you hit level 6 you can get aggressive. By then you should have some health and armor (or MR depending on the enemy top) and even damage if your jungler got you some kills. Still harass them, and hopefully at this point they are far behind, once you get them to around half health (much depending on the champion as well) you can dive in on them with your cougar and if they stay and fight they should die (again, depending on the champion and scenario, choose wisely) if they run you should be able to pick them off with spears and ranged attacks, or even chase them in cougar form if they have low mobility.

By this time, you should have won your lane, and started moving onto helping others, or moved on to the team fight phase depending on how the game is going. You should have a lot of tankiness and starting to build up some damage (I've seen some bruiser Nidalee's buy Rylai's or something, but that's only if their whole team is ahead). Keep going in with cougar form demolishing squishies and initiating skirmishes. I've found in teamfights it's best to not initiate, and to go in while they are distracted, but that might just be me.

Other than those things, keep with your teammates, you can likely take most champions 1v1 but you can help your team so much better, heal+AS boost on carry, some CC depending on your build, and overall stompage.

Rinse and repeat, push lanes with your carry, protect them at all costs, have fun.

(As for items, runes, skill distribution, I recommend MobaFire just because I don't actually have one set build, my runes are not...ideal, and I for skill distribution, I do whatever I need at the time.)  Good luck