Thread:Sagee Prime/@comment-4881935-20121005021354/@comment-3323227-20121007040715

Nidalee really wasn't meant to be a support to begin with and I don't support her being a full fledged support. She requires gold to be useful and she lacks the necessary utility and CC to protect allies so like it or not support Nidalee is not very good. I never intended to rework her for support. This was aimed at solo mid and top and this is probably a flawed kit due entirely on what is required to be a strong top lane champion. if this kit didn't have the shred she would lose to most top lane champions. It is a serious snowball lane and her sustain is weak early on but picks up once she gets damage.

The reason I made her Primal surge damage to health is due to her getting almost nothing back from spellvamp and lifesteal only working with physical attacks. without a burst heal she needs good damage based sustain because she will only be getting hp back from dealing damage.

I see your annoyance with the cooldown but I honestly can't take it down much further. There are plenty of champions that get the same type buffs that either can get 100% uptime or greater than 100% uptime.

The main aim of this rework was to actually make her more of a duelist rather than her current hit and run tactic. You can't deal very much sustained damage so you have to constantly hit and run dealing bursts of damage and then running away. While this might seem alright for lane dominance it is actually pretty weak. If your opponent doesn't die they come back rejuvenated and stronger. Your next attempt at hit and run gets weaker as they level and most other tops snowball really hard while Nidalee doesn't really snowball much at all. Your damage output stays at about the same level all game. This is why she is generally good at killing squishies but completely falls off when the enemy team starts doing more damage.

I could have used the dripping wound concept instead of the shred one but I wanted to keep as much of it as simple as possible. Dripping wound would apply to all attacks but act similar to her shred except only she would benefit from it and allies would not.