Talk:Nidalee/@comment-25022155-20140604100619/@comment-5955640-20140604172840

I keep hearing "This rework will make the champion uninteractive and more powerful." When the discussion for those possible changes (because they could reconsider at any moment) were made based on just getting the rest of Nidalee's kit into the thing. Not making her an assassin or completely removing aspects of her kit doesn't seem to be the objective.

Having said that I think they really just made it to where you'll use cougar form more which was given the option to be used at level one but has no armor or magic resistance benefits like it did in season two. So it's still a huge risk to even use it offensively. You'll just have a high reward to attempt getting kills in that form as opposed to just using spears.

The spears will get nerfed. They still have that minimum range cap, you can't max it first and judging from the description it will scale from aspects of the cougar and not from leveling Q or using CDR. and they want you to use the hunt mechanic to deal large bonus damage. They'd lower the damage on the spears pretty well and would probably go into more patches lowering it if people aren't using the hunt mechanic to maximize spear damage.

Bushwhack actually got quite nerfed. It's ratio is down. It deals current health damage which is good damage when you have a small pool of health (so early game when it's more likely that a minion will run over it than you.) and it lasts two minutes instead of four and deals a single target the damage. You can't even cast it under someone with the hopes of damaging them as it has a brief delay.

The idea is that you use those spells to iniate a more full on attack than just have the target struggle and try to rebound by avoiding the next attack. Again I see this hunt mechanic as an excuse to hard nerf the Q as the reward won't be the damage. It will be getting the hunt debuff on a target and there will be an added risk trying to get it consumed.

We can wait and see on this though. But my prediction is that they will let the cougar's damage speak on behalf of the spears rather than the spears doing all the work and they'd be willing to make the spears quite weak to do so.