Talk:Nidalee/@comment-24820512-20140415155009/@comment-7460908-20140418105957

Not like it's terribly hard to build on Nid nowadays. AP Nid? Athene's. AD? Iceborn/Heart. Boom, you're set for CDR and you've got a decent hunk of stats.

I respect your opinion, Neon, but I can't see Nid's kit as good design. Either playstyle of hers leaves a huge portion of her kit under-utilized. AD Nid? Javelin Toss never does anything. AP Nid? Enjoy using that point-blank melee damage against champions without dying. I'm not even going to touch on Hybrid because there are no true hybrids anymore- itemization is nowhere close to ideal. Even Jax and Akali only grab one hybrid item these days (Tri and Gunblade, respectively).

Nidalee's kit is too confused as to what you're supposed to do with it. Primarily, it's supposed to be damage, but how do you apply it? Long range? Well, you'll have no AoE and you're losing an execute. Close range? Should that be bursty, as evidenced by the missing health damage, or should it be sustained, as evidenced by the low cooldowns and lack of mana costs? And then I'm not even mentioning all the mechanical shortcomings she carries.

Gragas-level rework, maybe, but that admittedly hit his midlane hard. I want her midlane to die because it's sub-optimal as it is now (yet people are still dumb enough to lose to her), but also because she could be made substantially better in other roles- shit, I could potentially see her as a strong jungler. It'd be a nice thought considering her lore says she was essentially RAISED in the begorram jungle.