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Development
- Main article: Nidalee (Development)
- Nidalee is voiced by Roxana Ortega in
League of Legends and Legends of Runeterra.[1][2]
- She was previously voiced by Kelly Fosdahl Burge in League of Legends.
- She was previously voiced by Kelly Fosdahl Burge in
- Nidalee used to have a bug where Primal Surge applied Swipe's damage (meaning she could kill her teammates if they were low enough).
- During the Alpha, Pounce used to be the name for an ability of Warwick's.
Universe
Universe- Main article: Nidalee (Character)
- Nidalee's true species is unknown, but she has diluted vastayan heritage that gives her shapeshifting abilities.[3]
- Nidalee's pack are the pakaa, a species of cougar in Runeterra, while the word 'pakiti' refers to the kittens.[4]
- Packmates and siblings within Nidalee's pack are referred as 'kupakaa.'[5]
- The Ixtali and other outsiders call Nidalee's pack the 'kashdaji,' which is seen as somewhat as an insult to the pakaa. The word is akin to referring to a wildcat as a regular house cat.[6] When Nidalee became packmother, outsiders began to refer to her as the 'Kashdaji Queen.'
League of Legends
League of LegendsGameplay
- Main article: Nidalee (League of Legends)
- Nidalee is the first champion to have more than 4 active abilities.
- Nidalee, Elise, Gnar, Jayce, Kayle, and Samira are the only champions to be conditionally considered both ranged and melee.
- Nidalee was the first champion to feature a transformation ability (e.g. Elise, Gnar Shyvana, Swain).
- Nidalee has four different running animations (human run, human brush sprint, cougar run, cougar brush sprint).
- Pounce was the first ability to feature a static cooldown (was removed in V1.0.0.124).
- Nidalee used to have a hidden passive where nearby allied champions gain 5 bonus experience every 5 seconds if Nidalee is higher-leveled (a double-entendre).
- In older versions of the game, Javelin Toss was the highest-damage single-hit spell in the game.
- Nidalee was deemed overpowered in the Ultra Rapid Fire game mode (2014 edition) and was ultimately disabled in non-custom games.
- After her visual rework, her feline forms received morphological features from cougars' bigger relatives, like mane, higher shoulders than haunches, long skull & jaws, & occasionally long fangs of sabre-toothed cats and other cat-like relatives.
- Nidalee is one of the first champions to have one skin for each of the three big annual events of the year: Lunar Revel, Harrowing, Snowdown Showdown. She received her Warring Kingdoms skin alongside Katarina's in Warring Kingdoms 2015.
- Given that she is a wild child, it is unknown how Nidalee could have learnt to speak languages fluently; since in the real world, feral humans who learn their first language late in life never master the linguistic aspects of phonology, morphology, and syntax.
Quotes
- Main article: Nidalee (League of Legends Audio)
- Her ban quote ▶️ "You are right to fear me!" resembles Qiyana's ▶️ "You are right to fear my greatness"
- Nidalee has several quotes with phrases in Ixtali.[7]
- Pakaa means cougar.
- Pakiti means cougar kitten.
- Kashdaji is name that the Ixtali have given Nidalee's pack.
- Kupakaa means sibling or packmage.
Skins
- Main article: Nidalee (Collection)
- She might have been inspired by Navee from Wake.
- Her very first splash art was directly tweaked for the first splash art of her Leopard skin.
- While more elaborately edited, the first splash art for her Snow Bunny and French Maid skins also seem to have borrowed the pose from her first classic splash art.
- While more elaborately edited, the first splash art for her
- This skin shares the Snowdown Showdown theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Snowdown Showdown 2009 along with:
- She was inspired by the eponymous slang term and the snow leopard.
- In her splash art, she is building a snow leopard statue while a Poro gives her a snowball.
- In her splash art, she is building a snow leopard statue while a
- This skin shares the Legacy theme with:
- She resembles the Leopard Queen from The Maxx.
- She was inspired by the eponymous big cat.
- This skin shares the Day Job theme with:
- She is dressed as a French Maid.
- This skin shares the Pharaoh theme with:
- The Shuriman crest can be seen behind her.
- Her human form was inspired by historical female pharaohs like Hatshepsut, Cleopatra VII, etc. while her cougar form references Bastet, though resembling a Siamese cat and not an Egyptian cat.
- This skin shares the Bewitching theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Harrowing 2011 along with:
- The three female champions' appearances as stereotypical witches possibly reference "the weyward sisters" from William Shakespeare's Macbeth.
- She was inspired by the black cat.
- The skin description references The Cat in the Hat.
- The following can be seen in the background:
- This skin shares the Headhunter theme with:
- She references to Machiko Noguchi from Predator.
- This skin shares the Lunar Revel: Warring Kingdoms theme with:
- She was released in celebration of Lunar Revel 2015 (Year of the Goat) along with:
- She references a historical Chinese noble lady Sun Shangxiang from the late Eastern Han & early Three Kingdoms eras. She was related to Eastern Wu's leaders, as Sun Jian's daughter and Sun Quan's younger sister, and was also being married to another warlord, Liu Bei for political considerations.
- Challenger Nidalee Chromas: Golden
Chromas:- This skin shares the Challenger theme with:
- She was released in celebration of the start of Season 2016.
- This skin shares the Super Galaxy theme with:
- She resembles Tengen Toppa Solvernia from the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- Her cougar form may be a reference to Liger Zero from Zoids.
- Dawnbringer Nidalee Chromas: Amethyst, Paragon, Pearl, Peridot, Rose Quartz, Ruby
- This skin shares the Nightbringer and Dawnbringer theme with:
- Her cougar form resembles the Lion of God-King Garen.
- Cosmic Huntress Nidalee Chromas: Citrine, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Tanzanite, Turquoise
- This skin shares the Cosmic theme with:
- She was inspired by the Leo constellation.
- DWG Nidalee Chromas: Elite
- This skin shares the World Champions: 2020 theme with:
- Ocean Song Nidalee Chromas: Catseye, Emerald, Obsidian, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tanzanite
- This skin shares the Ocean Song theme with:
- Kittalee Chromas: Amethyst, Aquamarine, Citrine, Obsidian, Pearl, Peridot, Rose Quartz, Ruby
- This skin shares the Cats Versus Dogs theme with:
