What is Nidalee's Javelin Toss damage cap?
Nidalee's Javelin Toss is an ability that deals increased damage the further you are from the enemy it hits at the time of contact. This ability is stated to deal 250% damage at maximum range, but sometimes it appears to be more than that.
Is the 250% multiplier a hard cap, such that added distance no longer helps after that point? If this is the case, what is the maximum distance, and is it longer than the base range of the ability?
If 250% isn't a hard cap, what would be Nidalee's maximum damage be at level 1, with starting items, assuming ally help. (i.e. Thresh's Dark Passage) on Summoner's Rift
Best Answer
I quite sure the javelin toss has a hard cap so the max damage would be:
(55 + 66) * 2.5 = 302.5
66 is the max ability power I could get on level 1(runes, masteries and amplifying tome)
But if there would be no cap I get a max damage of 799
using the formula:
(55+66)*((distance/1500) * 2.5) Where distance is distance from target on impact.
Thresh is allowed to be 1500 units away from his lantern Nidalee's max spear range is 1500 unit
The travel time of the spear is 1500/1300 = 1.15
in this time Nidalee can travel another
335 * 1.15 * 1.15 * 1.27 + 400 = 962 units (Base * Time * Passive * ghost + flash)
So we will get a total of
1500 + 1500 + 962 = 3962
and if we put this in the formula: (55+66)*((3962/1500) * 2.5) = 799
if we take Vayne(with a base 30MR) gets hit by this spear 799 - 23% = 615 dmg
And a lv 1 only has 442 health.
CONCLUSION
If there is no cap on nidalee's spear you could 1 shot an ad carry on LV 1.
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Answer 2
The only thing I can tell for sure is that around 3 or 4 months ago, there was absolutely no cap on the spear's damage. Using flash to get away right after throwing a max range spear would output a greater amount of damage. I never tried this out since Tresh came out but I know it used to work with flash. SivHD also made a video about Nidalee in which he talks about this "exploit".
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