General Discussion January?

Overall I think Runic Echoes gives a better 1st item spike early on, imo Nidalee is a very strong early game jungler. The base damage on Runic Echoes is higher than Runeglaive early on but later Runeglaive becomes stronger. But i think Runic Echoes is better since you should be providing early game presence anyways since that is when Nidalee is the strongest.

But heres the thing I've been wondering on that Im wondering if you can help give input to me on.

Runic Echoes gives +10% MS, and if youre going x/18/x in masteries you're taking the 3% ms boost out of combat since her clear times are already good. Nidalee's Base MS is currently 335. Ionian boots and Sorcs both give +45 MS. 335+45 =380 MS

Now I've been trying a build where I skip boots entirely and as a 3rd item after ROA going lichbane, lichbane has always been a novality item which you can get but isn't core since she doesn't have many item slots. But lichbane itself gives 7% MS and the same 10% cdr from Ionian Boots which most people get.

Now obviously were not gonna get lichbane off the bat as a 3rd item when we need the MS.

Aether Wisp = +30 AP and +5% MS All for 850 GOLD So together 335 +10% from runic echoes +5% from Aether +3% from out of combat mastery = 395 MS

Ionian Boots =+10% CDR +45 MS for 800 Gold (excluding the other passive) 335 MS + 45 MS + 3% from masteries = 391 MS

So just having Aether Wisp instead of Ionian Boots gives more MS so you don't really need boots anymore. While also giving a 30 AP boost.

Now with lichbane completed you get a huge damage boost along with a total of 402 MS.

So what do you think of getting Aether Wisp instead of Ionian Boots? This was all calulated without factoring in the fact Nidalee's Passive gives +10% MS from her passive in a bush.

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