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I love Nidalee.
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Why do I love her? Well, not only is she damn sexy in appearance, but she is ridiculously fun to play. Actually, she's about all I play. I've tried out many other champions, but I always come home to my crazy cougar lady.
Perhaps it is because I mained a feral druid for so long in WoW, for more reasons than you may think! Certainly, Nidalee transforms into a large cat and back, but there is something about her that I excel at that makes her really fun: cool downs. Yes, cool downs. Nidalee does not use mana in cougar, nor does it take any mana to transform into. However, her most important ability is her heal. Since cougar is generally more advantageous to run around in, since you can pounce around and you can transform out and instantly use a move without having to wait, it is beneficial to be in cougar most of the time. However, if you're in cougar, you can't see your cooldowns on your human moves!
Feral dps is a highly cooldown and timer based class. In complex fights, you can't be checking the debuffs and cooldowns constantly, you have to "feel" them. I swear I have a set of little timers in my head that I can use to keep track of my abilities.While feral druids have to deal with keeping track of 4 different timers, Nidalee really only needs to know 3. Of course, having a cooldown reduction (i.e. blue buff) reduces these, too, but still is easy to track.
Alright, so probably not everyone would like a champion because you have to keep track of hidden cooldowns to excel with her, so why else is she fun?
Diversity: Melee, range, support. Nidalee has a wide range of abilities that keep her play diverse an interesting. Truthfully, it's like playing three characters shoved into one each game!
Multiple Abilities: I get bored having only four moves to use. Sure, I can understand only four are really needed to make the characters complete and diverse, but it gets a little boring, especially if you have one with a long cooldown. Nidalee has 6 moves and her transformation, all of which have extremely short cooldowns in comparison to a lot of champions. You will always have a large set of options when you are on the field, it makes you feel like you have more freedom of choice!
Cougar: Her cougar form is pretty bad ass. Not only is it really fun playing a gigantic cat, but it is truly powerful when used correctly. Certainly, it may be easier to harass with ranged abilities most of the time, but when you hit level six, jump over a pack of minions and chomp your opponent for a quarter of their life, you feel satisfied.
Escape Artist: Not only does Nidalee's cougar form allow her to hop in, deal a huge melee hit and hop out, but it also makes her a total escape artist. Combined with her passive (which gives her a 15% increased run speed for 2 seconds when touching brush), Nidalee is basically uncatchable. Even with a great amount of CC on her, her pounce with it's ridiculously short cooldown not only gives her an invisible run speed increase, but it also allows her to jump over wall after wall! Nothing gets your blood pumping like the entire enemy team chasing you... but knowing you can probably outrun them? That makes it fun.
Headshots: The only explanation this needs is this video.
So that's why Nidalee is my love <3
  
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god damn that bitch is just asking for a raping dressed like that..
artists were jacking off constantly just drawing it.
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You forgot her best quality: her hidden passive.
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On May 12 2011 03:30 ZedZin wrote:
artists were jacking off constantly just drawing it.
You think that's bad? I take it you haven't seen the other female champs they released recently...
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On May 12 2011 03:35 BloodNinja wrote:
You forgot her best quality: her hidden passive.
The experience she gives lower level allies? I never really factor it in as super useful, as it's only 5exp every 3 seconds. I guess that means a minion kill equivalent ever 9-12 seconds, but since she should be soloing until at least 6 or 7, it isn't huge.
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God, I havent played league in so long.
Use to play a lot of melee scion when I played pubs:
Berserker Boots, Starks, 2x Phantom Dancers, then Inf Blade/Banshees Veil if the Game isnt over by then.
Was really effective and fun to play when I played, due to super fast run speed, allowign you to farm and control big portions of the map.
Only problem was if the team caught on they could lock you down with disables. But if you farm up and arrive to a fight slightly late after the disables were already thrown out, you can chop down anyone who isnt a tank.
Good times 
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On May 12 2011 03:45 Riku wrote:Show nested quote +On May 12 2011 03:35 BloodNinja wrote:
You forgot her best quality: her hidden passive. The experience she gives lower level allies? I never really factor it in as super useful, as it's only 5exp every 3 seconds. I guess that means a minion kill equivalent ever 9-12 seconds, but since she should be soloing until at least 6 or 7, it isn't huge.
It isn't useful at all. I just chuckle at the fact they put a "Cougar Joke" into the game in the first place.
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On May 12 2011 03:50 BloodNinja wrote:Show nested quote +On May 12 2011 03:45 Riku wrote:On May 12 2011 03:35 BloodNinja wrote:
You forgot her best quality: her hidden passive. The experience she gives lower level allies? I never really factor it in as super useful, as it's only 5exp every 3 seconds. I guess that means a minion kill equivalent ever 9-12 seconds, but since she should be soloing until at least 6 or 7, it isn't huge. It isn't useful at all. I just chuckle at the fact they put a "Cougar Joke" into the game in the first place.
Haha, do you know her /joke?
"Did I mention it's mating season?"
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On May 12 2011 03:27 Riku wrote:I love Nidalee.
Is that a custom LoL client screen? How did you do it?
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On May 12 2011 04:05 Ayush_SCtoss wrote:Is that a custom LoL client screen? How did you do it?
I think it's just shopped, I found it on google.
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Please tell me you have the French Maid skin. Cougar form is so sexy
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I played LoL for a while cause my brothers (still) are crazy about that game. Ended up playing Morgana for a while and she was quite fun. Tormented soil IMBA.
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On May 12 2011 04:23 Piggiez wrote:
Please tell me you have the French Maid skin. Cougar form is so sexy
Yep, I use the French Maid skin every time I queue!
I hope to get Snow Bunny Nidalee, though!
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You could get custom launcher skins very easy before they put out the new launcher, now its a pain to do it. I bought nidalee some time back, but I kinda suck with her, il just stick with caitlyn thanks ^^
EDIT : also if any of you fine gents wanna play feel free to add me on Europe on the id Lamenter Anyone welcome, just no raging when I suck
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lol zed ouch.
Didn't play much LoL. Only played Janna when I did, but glad to see you're having fun.
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Here are some custom launchers you can use, also there is a thread I can't seem to find on the LoL forums on how to do it yourself.
I main Veigar, Amumu, Ezreal, Heimerdinger and Vlad
edit: forgot about the new launcher, disregard my first statement
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On May 12 2011 04:35 Riku wrote:Show nested quote +On May 12 2011 04:23 Piggiez wrote:
Please tell me you have the French Maid skin. Cougar form is so sexy Yep, I use the French Maid skin every time I queue! I hope to get Snow Bunny Nidalee, though!
snow bunny was limited edition
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On May 12 2011 05:32 Frolossus wrote:Show nested quote +On May 12 2011 04:35 Riku wrote:On May 12 2011 04:23 Piggiez wrote:
Please tell me you have the French Maid skin. Cougar form is so sexy Yep, I use the French Maid skin every time I queue! I hope to get Snow Bunny Nidalee, though! snow bunny was limited edition
I am well aware, or else I would have bought it instead of French Maid Nidalee.
However, I am cosplaying as Nidalee for PAX and I hear the Riot booth guys can be awfully nice.
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You forgot to mention she can jump over walls!
I looooooooooooooooove nidalee
Every other champ I play I end up getting bored with eventually, but nidalee is so fun.
Like you said, the large number of abilities on relatively short cooldowns allows for so many options in every scenario that can differentiate a good nidalee from a bad one pretty quickly
And yeah, I use french maid as well, just cause the black cat look with the white paws is so badass haha
you ever make her laugh in cougar form? She rolls onto her back it's so cute ^^
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On May 12 2011 06:07 -orb- wrote:
You forgot to mention she can jump over walls!
I looooooooooooooooove nidalee
Every other champ I play I end up getting bored with eventually, but nidalee is so fun.
Like you said, the large number of abilities on relatively short cooldowns allows for so many options in every scenario that can differentiate a good nidalee from a bad one pretty quickly
And yeah, I use french maid as well, just cause the black cat look with the white paws is so badass haha
you ever make her laugh in cougar form? She rolls onto her back it's so cute ^^
;p
I didn't forget, it's the in Escape Artist section!
And I have yet to laugh in cougar! Though her tail-chase dance is pretty cute, too!
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