User blog comment:Sagee Prime/Nidalee rework Final/@comment-3323227-20121001235801/@comment-3323227-20121002042232

You can't really truly play Nidalee as an AP caster all she can do is poke from a distance. She doesn't have much of a combo unless you consider cougar form but if you go AP you really can't use it except for in certain 1v1 situations.

Now I gave her hybrid ratios but I didn't do that without making sure it would pan out all right later. The base damage on every one of her skills except for takedown was reduced massively to compensate for AD ratios and other changes.

The reason I did this is due to Nidalee being melee in cougar. Once she gets into melee is isn't very easy to disengage despite her mobility and to compound that problem she doesn't have very good sustained damage so once she puts our her burst she has to back out or she loses the trade.

I may not have done enough to give AD and AP Nidalee distinct advantages but at the same time I don't think either should be better than the other. The last thing to note is Nidalee was originally intended to be a jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none but it really doesn't work out for what it was intended to be.

That is what I'm talking about right there. Good eye on the CDR with swipe. Not sure if it would be too strong or not in that regard but it would barely be more than 2 seconds. There is a problem with maxing cdr though because her bases are so low but cdr mixed with damage would benefit a little too much.

As for the bushwhack oassive you are wrong about the free last whisper. For poking it is completely useless. It would only be goo in melee and auto attack exchanges and even then you have to get off several hits to get maximum effect. It isn't given up for free and if you switch to a different target they will not have the debuff on them. It is only useful late game when you are able to get up to 40% but the ability to get it to max stacks is much harder. This is mainly meant to be a bruiser killer and is only there because lack of good hybrid pen items.

I like traps but Nidalee are just rarely useful despite their potential.