So far as i played this game 3000 rounds, i figure out that when ad nidalee goes top which is hotshot's idea, when i first tried it i realize that this champion is op on picking up kills with her Q on both cougar/human form. But as a solo top champion, it require to be tanky because nid's cougar form is close range which is a melee. So we start building tanky nid which after trying it's pretty good.http://edge1.mobafire.com/images/gb-shrink-chapter.png

i choose ice born gaunlet because i figured out it's a really good item on nid, her skills are mostly ap ratio and pretty short CD,so if she had ice born gaunlet, it gains her infinity slow which is what nidalee/tank needed, tank require to have cc just like amumu, it also gave her mana to stay longer in lanes because she always short on mana. For the rest of the build, it's normal for solo top off tank or junglers. Which when nid uses her ulti it gains her extra 30 armor/magic resist.

I choose this mastery and runes for nid cause of she's an off tank and she's short on mana. But she's hard to farm under turret so she needs to get ad runes, in the same time i plug in the armor and magic resist runes so she won't fall so fast that the player doesn't even knows what happen. For mastery i plug in 4 points in it because it gains her extra mana regan which is what she needed. And 17 point in defense so she can be tanky as basic in case she's against some champion that's pokey or op like Darius or Fiora in early game. For offense i put 4 points in sorcery because her skill cd is short which it should be helpful, atleast better than attack speed because she rely on skill more than basic attack