Talk:Nidalee/@comment-5426276-20130609030355/@comment-6109369-20130611184710

Well, if I recall correctly from the patch notes and whatnot, Olaf lost his armor pen to reduce his offensive capability when not using his ult, Lee Sin's armor was removed so that Iron Will would become a sustain abilitiy, not defensive, and J4's armor aura was removed so that teams with him wouldn't have as much armor (J4's own armor per level was buffed to compensate, but the change wasn't documented).

What I'm talking about here is why Jayce gets to keep his defense stats while in melee form, whereas Nidalee and Elise do not. I pointed out that Jayce has a bunch more damage loaded into his ranged mode and less in his melee mode, unlike those other two (Contrary to popular belief, Nidalee spears are not that broken. And an earlier patch for Elise moved some of ranged Q damage to melee Q). And Jayce doesn't have an escape or disengage except knocking back with E (which is also his major melee form damage source). So the difference between Jayce's melee form and the melee form Nidalee and Elise: less damage, less survivability, more survivability from higher defensive stats