User blog comment:Hamengeri/Custom refactor: 1001st Nidalee./@comment-1330314-20131202225344

This rework has a lot of aspects I like, namely giving Nid her ult at lvl 1 and making AD Nidalee viable again, along with a few problems. Here are my thoughts:

Nidalee's original passive is fairly useless (and got an indirect nerf with Season 4's sparser brush) and doesn't really contribute to her kit. Buffing it doesn't really do much to help. You should rework this skill entirely, perhaps by having her gain movement speed upon each ability cast or something that would synergize with her abilities.

While I agree that Javelin Toss needs to hyperscale less with AP, removing the scaling entirely makes AP Nidalee completely unviable. At max distance, the ability deals 48% of the target's missing health in magic damage, more than or 's ultimates. Having it work as an execute also doesn't work too well, since her playstyle mainly revolves around her poking her enemies before closing in on her enemy in cougar form and executing them. You should switch it around with her cougar form version, by having javelin deal damage based on current health and the takedown deal damage based on missing health. You should also conserve some kind of an AP scaling as well.

Bushwhack on live really needs to have a shorter debuff, and lowering it to three seconds is a great idea. Nothing to criticize here.

Primal Surge does need a softer mana cost, so that's good, but you've also added a heal per attack, which is fine, but didn't nerf the scaling on the base heal. You should be harsher on the base heal nerf and nerf the AP scaling as well, so that the total heal should be about as powerful as is the instant heal now.

Nerfing the AP scaling and base damage hurts AP Nidalee again, though the idea of adding some form of AD-based damage sounds nice. Splitting her AD may not be an idea, as the same mechanic got removed on Gragas recently, so instead you could heavily nerf the base damage, bring the AP scaling back to current values and have the damage scale with her full AD so that it remains the same as current levels if she builds AP.

Giving Nidalee bonus movement speed per rank on Cougar form is interesting, especially as Nidalee would need a nerf to her early mobility with her ult at level 1.

Overall, lots of good thoughts, though some of your ideas could do with some tweaking. Looking forward to seeing how this develops!