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Here mousy, mousy, mousy... | AD Nidalee Toplane Guide
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Here mousy, mousy, mousy... | AD Nidalee Toplane Guide
I do apologize, but I had to down vote this. Building attack damage on Nidalee is near idiotic. All of her abilities, human or cougar, scale off of ability power. If you build nothing but attack damage on her, you are taking away from her true potential of sniping a tank down to half health with a single spear, and being able to burst down an ADC in cougar form. Your heal also heals for MUCH less then what it could, and its pointless to build lifesteal on her because of the heal. In all honesty, I am amazed you are having this much success with this build.
I apologize for being so harsh, but thats how it is. I am saying that Nidalee can't go top? No, Im not. She could make a decent top laner, but not with AD items. Build AP tank items, and you may find even more success with her.
Mate, AP nidalee is like rather **** right now. Add to that that AD nida has NEVER been bad.
And the fact that AD nida got buffed and you realize you should delete your comment as fast as possible.
Questions for the author:
You max Q on AD nidalee and make a guide on her, why?
Heal + AS, AKA SPLITPUSHING POWER vs low dmg magic dmg spears.
You skill E on level one. You'd either wanna go W or Q, but never E.
Some spelling mistakes here and there and nidalee isn't a tiger, not in any of her skins ~
Now this guide is going to be big, Nidalee is one of the top tiers for the top lane atm, her damage is ridiculous and she can win a trade with almost anyone, pantheon is a nice counter now it's really hard to win a lane against him and Stun is her worst enemy at the moment.
I used to play nida mid AP at low elo but it was very very hard to carry the games as I was trying to climb the ledder from bronze, I got so frustated i stop playing for a few months and came back after the rework with a different mentality
After I got used again i decided to try her top lane as I Saw wingsofdeathsx doing. And oh boy she is so Strong now... I win around 7/10 of the match ups. Some champions like Renekton and Riven can be really hard and must be poked really safelly but they will eventually outscale you, Riven will but you will come back later (if she don't get crazy fed) however Renekton will be stronger.
My elo is pretty bad however my mentality is not, as im Stuck in elo hell you must see how bad the games are both from my team and the enemies so the scores trully show how good nidalee is at the top Lane atm.
just so you guys can see how i build
Tri force builds
Iceborn way
So both builds are really good for her, most of the time I dont even finish BOTRK because I start building tanky, as I already told you my ELO is low so I need to carry my game.. hopefully if I keep going this way I will improve even more.
Triforce+BOTRK is for sure the Stronger but however iceborn just feels a bit safer for me sometimes and I think Is very efficient on Nidalee.
Anyway guys jsut wanted to share my opnion, my elo is low so I just get people as bad as me however I've seen a lot of Nidalee bans at high elo
Clarifying exactly what you're saying. When your laning vs a champion that building armor will not benefit you (I.E. - Gragas,Swain,Ryze), you build Tri force. If you're going to split after that you pick up a hydra instead of botrk. Those are the build paths for bruiser nid.
Btw, the reason you see nidalee bans at high elo is because of people like RF and Jin.
I used to play nida mid AP at low elo but it was very very hard to carry the games as I was trying to climb the ledder from bronze, I got so frustated i stop playing for a few months and came back after the rework with a different mentality
After I got used again i decided to try her top lane as I Saw wingsofdeathsx doing. And oh boy she is so Strong now... I win around 7/10 of the match ups. Some champions like Renekton and Riven can be really hard and must be poked really safelly but they will eventually outscale you, Riven will but you will come back later (if she don't get crazy fed) however Renekton will be stronger.
My elo is pretty bad however my mentality is not, as im Stuck in elo hell you must see how bad the games are both from my team and the enemies so the scores trully show how good nidalee is at the top Lane atm.
just so you guys can see how i build
Tri force builds
Iceborn way
So both builds are really good for her, most of the time I dont even finish BOTRK because I start building tanky, as I already told you my ELO is low so I need to carry my game.. hopefully if I keep going this way I will improve even more.
Triforce+BOTRK is for sure the Stronger but however iceborn just feels a bit safer for me sometimes and I think Is very efficient on Nidalee.
Anyway guys jsut wanted to share my opnion, my elo is low so I just get people as bad as me however I've seen a lot of Nidalee bans at high elo
I saw the 2 item builds. My point was that your second one was the better of the two in any case. I've played AD nidalee a lot and I've had much more success with the BotRK so it's something that I'd highly recommend you reconsider.
Also, I'm not sure if I saw
Thank you pretty much for your help. I really appreciate it, but I don't have really much time atm to fix all that sh*t. ^^ Just made it for fun and take a look later.
Greets
Also, I'm not sure if I saw
Max E first on AD Nid. The sustain and AS buff is like the only thing in Human form that matters (traps help too but there's no reason to max them). Also, Nidalee's cougar abilities scale with rank in the ULT, not the human ability.
Hydra is not great. BotRK is better in all cases.
Guide could use an items section and maybe some sort of match-up explanation. A game-play chapter would be nice as well.
I made 2 Itembuilds ^^ In the second the "Splitpush Nidalee"-Build I took BotrK and this guide is still in work. My Udyr guide took like a month till it was how I liked it. Thanks for the missing chapters I could add, but take a look next time twice on the Itembuilds :P BotrK is ofcourse normally better on her, but I guess for teamfights is the Hydra better, cause of the AoE and better sustain. Anyway thanks for the help, I really appreciate that man! <3
I do apologize, but I had to down vote this. Building attack damage on Nidalee is near idiotic. All of her abilities, human or cougar, scale off of ability power. If you build nothing but attack damage on her, you are taking away from her true potential of sniping a tank down to half health with a single spear, and being able to burst down an ADC in cougar form. Your heal also heals for MUCH less then what it could, and its pointless to build lifesteal on her because of the heal. In all honesty, I am amazed you are having this much success with this build.
I apologize for being so harsh, but thats how it is. I am saying that Nidalee can't go top? No, Im not. She could make a decent top laner, but not with AD items. Build AP tank items, and you may find even more success with her.
yo man, please... read the guide! ^^ Ofcourse the spells doestn scale with AD well, just the Q in Tigerform. But I also tell you in the guide that she is a spltipushing champ as AD/AS Nidalee. In teamfights she is bad ofcourse. But AD Nidalee with Trinity force is just such a good 1v1 champ. It's more solid than AP, because in a 1v1 you dont have the range for hitting your Q on maxrange and you can easy be dodged in a 1v1. The potential in AD Nidalee is in Splitpush and 1v1 in early/mid game. Just try it and play her how I do and dont just downvote, when you dont understand something. Its like "I DOWNVOTE KARTHUS JUNGLE, BECAUSE HE IS MADE FOR MIDLANE" you know what I mean? I have already seen AD Nidalee top on famous streamer like BestRivenNA, Dyrus and Sirhcez. Anyway thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it. <3
Hydra is not great. BotRK is better in all cases.
Guide could use an items section and maybe some sort of match-up explanation. A game-play chapter would be nice as well.
I apologize for being so harsh, but thats how it is. I am saying that Nidalee can't go top? No, Im not. She could make a decent top laner, but not with AD items. Build AP tank items, and you may find even more success with her.