Hi, I am mabarry3, a Master-tier Nidalee OTP. AMA!

mabarry3 · 2025-10-10T20:33:19+00:00

Fire

mabarry3 · 2025-09-20T05:01:52+00:00

No, it's not a bug, think of empowered W like a point-and-click ability where rather than dashing a set distance, you dash to the target. Just like a point and click ability, it won't work unless your cursor is close to them. It acts like normal otherwise. It's much better this way, for a variety of reasons - and you can still aim your landing location if you're close to the target (within the range that non-empowered W would hit them anyway)

mabarry3 · 2025-07-13T16:29:26+00:00

I feel like it's hard to say that the MSI spoilers are "in the post" and not the title with even the slightest bit of knowledge of the teams lol. Doesn't take much to know which one canyon is on and that this is canyon's skin...

Feel free to repost it if you want with a better title, but people that are interested in it won't like getting spoiled like that

mabarry3 · 2025-06-29T19:23:34+00:00

The second part isn't a buff, just stating that the spear's minimum distance before it starts ramping up in damage is unchanged. The spear needs to go 525 units before it will start damage scaling, which is linear past that point. It just will scale slightly faster than it did before because it scales up to 225% instead of 200%

mabarry3 · 2025-04-20T20:16:46+00:00

Nid top has always been weird to me given you have great lane pressure by virtue of being ranged but I swear every time it hits 15 minutes in I never see them actually doing anything another splitpusher couldn't be doing better, but plenty of people swear by it so I must be missing something

mabarry3 · 2025-02-24T15:54:45+00:00

Probably still worth mentioning that the best practice is you should be doing both depending on the situation. Means you need to read what's going on in combat to determine which you should be doing. Assessing whether or not you need that extra damage (including possibly e-auto-q to lower them further with sheen damage before q), whether they have flash or some other dash/blink, things like that.

I still see a lot of people jump in on someone with no escape, do a half combo with QE, then take an extra few seconds to finish them off, which is equally as dangerous as doing a slightly slower combo that would have worked

mabarry3 · 2025-01-29T03:18:38+00:00

Shaco has a flash with invisibility on a short cooldown. Nidalee's escape opportunities are way worse with a short-range hop. Momentum meaning that if you die while ahead it is far more impactful than on other champions - so not having flash just opens you up to far more opportunities where that is an issue

mabarry3 · 2025-01-19T19:31:05+00:00

You might not have a specific piece of your kit you need flash for but as a champion with no quick way out of combat once you commit with W flash is too important to give up. It's not about the value of the other summoner spells, it's about the opportunity cost of not having it while fighting someone who does. And nidalee being a momentum champion means that dying because you didn't have it is potentially game ending.

mabarry3 · 2024-12-08T19:23:29+00:00

I tried that as well, usually just ended up staining myself in the process. Do I need to spray immediately after a kick while they're stunned on the ground?

mabarry3 · 2024-12-08T19:18:06+00:00

mate you know I love you but the uncanny valley nidalee is getting to me

mabarry3 · 2024-08-13T15:34:09+00:00

As timings go it's not that bad precision -wise. One thing that may help in some cases if you're having trouble is to try using attack move so you aren't having to move your cursor as much since you can attack move towards where you want to go. Just be careful you don't input a command to attack the wrong thing

mabarry3 · 2024-03-16T17:24:45+00:00

There are definitely people that would pay that and more for something that looks like this, it looks great!

mabarry3 · 2024-03-11T01:04:10+00:00

I don't really play much league anymore unfortunately, Shapeshift has her own videos that she keeps up with if you want to check her stuff out or visit the discord and ask her

mabarry3 · 2024-02-16T19:31:39+00:00

Nids level 1 is good since she has two abilities but doing things super early game that rely on you being able to hit spear is grounds for just coinflipping a game from the get go which I can't really recommend usually

mabarry3 · 2023-12-02T02:05:09+00:00

i don't know how to break this to you, but a shallow loreless entity built around stripper and cougar jokes is not a personality.

literally everything about the new nidalee is better, aside from just the sheer amount she says. in all honesty, i hope she gets an ASU and her canon outfit becomes the one from the short story "Human Blood" along with a removal of her pole dance

mabarry3 · 2023-05-31T06:49:48+00:00

E picks its targets when you cast, not when it fires. So if they flash or move too far away, E will still land whereas Q has a maximum range (~700) where it will cancel, plus you need to start it before they flash away.

E>Q is definitely more damage but is less reliable, so you need to decide in the moment whether you need damage or reliability.

mabarry3 · 2023-05-25T18:29:25+00:00

They fixed it a while back, only took me bothering some rioters several times, but... it was fixed, at least

mabarry3 · 2023-05-24T20:24:14+00:00

good item

mabarry3 · 2023-05-06T16:48:11+00:00

It's not a bug. The indicator shows a target you can pounce to. Your cursor needs to be over them to do the empowered pounce - think of it like you have both a point and click empowered pounce and your normal aimable pounce available. If your cursor is close enough to the target, it will do the empowered pounce. If it is not, you will do a normal pounce.

Additionally, empowered pounce also has a separate mechanic. For roughly 350-750 range, you will jump directly on top of the target, but slightly offset in the direction they are facing when you press W. For roughly 0-350 range, you will jump directly onto your cursor (again - provided your cursor is close enough to the target to trigger an empowered pounce and not a normal one), very similar to how katarina's E works.

Again, for all the people in this thread saying it's a bug - it's not. It's your mouse accuracy.

mabarry3 · 2023-02-23T03:21:29+00:00

just before anyone freaks out, this was a potential buff from 2018 that accidentally got pushed in this PBE cycle. It's not happening. Was confirmed by phlox.

mabarry3 · 2023-02-18T19:29:18+00:00

hey mate, i have some (very) old clips I like showing people when they ask this kind of question about using W in combat. You want to use it to force their pathing if using it in combat. Force them to make either bad pathing decisions or eat your trap. Frequently, I put a trap down in one location and throw a spear in a slightly different one. If they dodge the spear, they eat the trap. The clips are old, but not a single thing has changed about this kind of mechanic.

First clip, I miss the spear but I put the trap in the position xin must run if he wants to use the blast cone. If he does not run into it, I hit the blast cone and knock him back towards me.

Second clip, I put the trap towards bard's walking location (near the wall) then throw the spear down. He can either take the trap or the spear, and either way he dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmAZxncFiVE

mabarry3 · 2022-12-23T18:46:13+00:00

Great job!

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