User blog comment:Contractas1/Nidalee - Mistake or Miracle?/@comment-13536822-20131103194154

On the contrary, I'd say nidalee is very, very broken. Her spears do so much damage that a skilled player can get someone out of lane in an innapropriately short amount of time. At later levels, she can chunk even a tanks health by at least 1/4th. That's huge, and very few champions can even hope to do that, let alone be capable of that every 10 seconds or so (or maybe even less, I don't play her often)  This alone means she completely overshadows pre-rework xerath as a long range sniper.

However, unlike xerath, malzahar, syndra, and basically every other champion with insane  burst damage, she also has an escape that can get her out of almost anything if you're skilled with her. Not to mention being able to give chase, close distance, and finish off enemies at close range where many other mages fail. She is the definition of hyper-mobility, and in a game where the super-mobile champions (Ahri, Riven, Zed, Kassadin, Fizz) are incredibly powerful, she stands out far too much.

The fact she can't be the best in any specific role means nothing when she can destroy in all of them with ease, along with adding her own touches which cover the weaknesses those she replaces often have. If a champion is destructive even in the weakest role in terms of damage, support (*cough* Thresh *cough*) then there is definitely something wrong.

TL:DR: Nidalee has too good of a skillset. G-day.