User blog comment:Seventy-twelve/My thoughts on Nidalee/@comment-10256611-20131202143417

I agree with most of your points. A long time ago Phreak (though I'm not sure) said that Nidalee would have too much kill potential if she had access to cougar earlier (namely at level 1). However, changing the spear to apply on hit effects or deal certain base damage at her basic attack's range AND damage based on a percentage of missing health (that would scale with range and possibly AP) would solve this problem almost completely. :)

Also: damn you, now i feel inspired to rework Nidalee :P