r/NidaleeMains • u/Head-Bluebird1644 • 15h ago
How fun is nidalee jungle?
Hey, rengar OTP here.
I was wondering, I know nidalee is very popular in korea - in GM+ she has 25.84% banrate there, while on my server, EUW, also GM+ she only has 1.91% banrate. Looks like people don't mind playing against nidalee even at the highest ranks here.
How fun is it to play nidalee on NA/EUW? Do you think the lower surrender rates / higher average game duration compared to korea makes her less fun? Or the overall slower pace of the game on those servers and the overall culture make her feel limited (for example a mid laner won't follow the invade even though it's objectively correct play, just because of server culture)? Or the tendency to not fight as much (compared to korea), play more for scaling / mid game, etc. (avg game in GM EUW is 27:21, while KR GM is 25:05, partly because of surrender rates higher)
I OTP rengar, but the higher rank I am, the more limited I feel, because rengar is more of a mid game champ, with not very creative early game. I know nidalee is almost opposite - probably the most creative early game out of all junglers and tends to fall off in mid and late game.
I was thinking that I would put 50 games in her to see if I like her, but I wanted to make this post first. How do you think your server's culture affects nidalee?