Support Nidalee

[quote=MiamiHurricane]I wanted to know what the community's thoughts about support [[Nidalee]] were. I noticed there were no builds for support nidalee (at least not 70%+) and wondered why that was. I think she could work quite well as a support bot lane because: [list] [*] [[Primal Surge / Swipe]] also grants attack speed (and it is pretty strong) [*] [[Bushwhack / Pounce]] can save a lot of money on wards (though you will still want some) [*] Excellent poke with [[Javelin Toss / Takedown]] [/list] Perhaps no one plays her support because she's great at both AD bruiser top and AP but I think it would be perfectly viable. I think her best partners would be [[Caitlyn]] (so many traps!), [[Corki]] (so much poke!), and [[Kog'maw]] (infinite poke!). I put together a rough build-order that I'm going to be playing around with. [color=#ffffff]My Build (for now):[/color] Start with a [[Faerie charm]], 3 [[Sight Ward]]s, and 2 [[health potion]]s Build your [[Philosopher's Stone]] on your first back (with [[boots of speed]] and more [[sight ward]]s if you have the money for it) Build your [[Boots of Speed]] Next buy a [[Tear of the Goddess]] for more mana sustain (and a later [[Archangel's Staff]]) Now get an [[Aegis of the Legion]] for its nice aura Then finish your boots, turn them into [[Ionian boots of Lucidity]] And turn your stone into a [[Shurelya's Reverie]] ----------------------------[color=#ffffff]End Support Items[/color]---------------------------------- At this point I think you would be most useful to your team to start building AP to increase the power of your poke and make your heals massive. So next you: Turn your tear into an [[Archangel's Staff]] Buy a [[Rabadon's Deathcap]] for a massive AP boost And finish with a [[Void Staff]] so that your spears hurt that much more Of course, you will need to farm some to buy your AP items, but once the laning phase is over I don't see a problem with taking some jungle camps and the occasional creep wave. [color=#ffffff]Your final stats will be:[/color] Health: 2590 Mana: 2646 Speed: 382 Armor: 104 Magic Resist: 82.5 Health regen/5: 45.8 Mana regen/5: 70 Ability Power: 491 Cooldown Reduction: 40% (exactly) Your masteries will be 9/0/21, and you will use AP runes (at least I will as I don't have my full set of support runes yet). Summoner spells will be [[flash]] and [[clairvoyance]] or [[heal]] Take [[Bushwhack / Pounce]] at level 1, then [[Primal Surge / Swipe]] at level 2 and [[Javelin toss / Takedown]] at level 3. Surge and Javelin will be maxed together so you have good heals and strong javelins. Thoughts on the viability of my build or support [[Nidalee]] in general?[/quote]

[quote=MiamiHurricane]First game: 3/0/17. 52 minutes long, only item I didn't get to build was the [[void staff]]. Lobbing a javelin every 3.6 seconds during a late-game teamfight was quite good (as were the 400+ heals I was dishing out every 6 seconds). It seems to work so far, though we had a really bad early-game and had to stage a come-back. For some reason [[Teemo]] decided to lane with me and left [[Graves]] for solo-top, but we had [[Ahri]] and an un-killable jungle [[Dr. Mundo]]. Wards were pretty much unnecessary with all the traps and mushrooms scattered around.[/quote]

[quote=Klausenheim]I've played support [[Nidalee]] quite a few times, but I always find she has mana issues + she really needs to have pretty high AP to be effective. No CS = not enough gold to get the AP items you want. But that said, she isn't a bad choice, and if you find a partner that it works well with, go for it. Heck I played [[Veigar]] support a few times with my friend as Ashe and we were killing people left and right once we both hit level 6. If he can do it, I 100% believe [[Nidalee]] can do it.[/quote]

[quote=Vitigam]It is very viable, my friend plays it. And it is so much fun laning with him. [[Nidalee]] totally zones them out from the farm with her javelein. I realy like Nidalle support.[/quote]

[quote=DuffTime]Not the worst support, but certainly not the best. Basically comparable to a bad version of support Nunu.[/quote]