User blog comment:Asylumking/Who makes you salty?/@comment-4636093-20150301023804

What I want to know is just who at Riot have a boner for Nidalee?

Right now... she's a little bit strong. Not too much of an issue although there are so many junglers who hate her a lot more, and what she does doesn't exactly promote healthy interaction between her.

My issue is how many times in the past Riot have flat out ignored her issues. There was a whole 7 months when she was considered the most toxic, antifun and impossible thing in the game. 99% of people activly wanted her dissabled until her rework or nerfed S1 Evelynn style, to the point of being unusable, and the other 1% were Nidalee players. Meanwhile patch after patch nothing happened, she wasn't even mentioned, Riot did mention her a few times with impassive statements about how they "might look at her at some point in the future if it gets too bad".

All the while Nidalee was picked or banned in every pro game, banned in every ranked game and picked in every blind pick game.... For 7 months.

There were others at the time who were considered OP, Gragas and Kassadin were the other two dominant mid laners, and they both recieved a few preliminary nerfs, something to cut their dominance even just slightly before their respective reworks. But Nidalee, the worst of the trio, not for being the strongest of them because Gragas and Kassadin were indeed stronger, but because she was literally impossible to play against.

And a similar (but less drastic) thing is happening now. Nidalee got buffed in a good way which allowed her to jungle... aaaand she turned out to be one of the strongest junglers in the game. Better nerf every other jungler except her.

She's no where near as bad as she was, and I think that there ARE stronger champions to focus on tweaking in the jungle.... it's just this pattern of ignoring when she goes wrong which is really ominous.

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Incidentally I still think that Nasus is the strongest champion in the game right now.

He has his counters (sustained AP damage), but if you've picked anyone else (AP burst/Sustained AD/tank/anyone who dominates arely but falls off late) then he's hard countered you instead.

When he gets farm he solos teams 1v5... this wouldn't be too bad, afterall there are many other juggernaut bruisers who can do this and require far less farm to do so. Jax, Olaf, Singed, Renekton, Ryze, etc.

It's just... why is he such a strong early game champion too? He may not be killing anyone but he's impossible to really stop him farming in a neutral matchup, every minion he Qs adds up and eventually he'll slooowly get to the point where he's a force to be recconed with even if he has 0 kills and only 100 CS (provided most of those were Qed).

Meanwhile even if he doesn't have any damage at all and hasn't managed to Q anything, he still brings an immense amount of utility with his 95% slow, AoE armor shred, and %hp damage from his ult.

Fed Nasus used to be a case of "Haha! I got freefarm for 10 minutes now I'm unstoppable and 2 shot people while building full tank!", now it's "Haha! I managed to Q 2 minions a minute while dying to Darius constantly, now I'm still a facemelting force who builds full tank!".