Talk:Nidalee/@comment-5010112-20121025033621

I love how bad the average poster here is. Anyone who things Nidalee is under-powered is either

A: Stupid

B: Ignorant

She has around a 50% win-rate at high-elos. Often higher than that. She has a lower % win rate at low elos because she's a difficult champion to use. She isn't your pick-up and play champion.

She is still unique. Neither Jayce nor Elise can provide as much map-control as she does. Her map-control rivals even Teemo. Her traps cannot be destroyed with oracles. She can get her traps at level 1. The game is often won before you get to level 6.

She has more lane-sustain than either Jayce. And safer lane-sustain than Elise. Elise requires you to push the lane. Pushing your lane leads to you getting ganked. Ganks lead to death. Her untargetable ability only allows her to jump to an enemy. She cannot use it as a reliable escape mechanism. Other than her stun-- she has no real escape mechanism. And that stun is not difficult to avoid.

Nidalee's weakness is that she doesn't get her cougar form until level six. She needs to have that weakness. She has damage, amazing escape mechanics, map-control, lane-sustain, and provides her team with more than either Jayce or Elise does.

Also-- her attack speed buff with some CDR is a -contant- attack speed buff. Elise's AS buff has a long cool-down. A very long cool-down.