Thank you riot, from an Udyr main

Ever since patch 7.8 I feel as though I have been re-united with my star champion, the champion that I played when I first fell in love with this game. The champion that is perfect from aesthetics to the way his kit works just for me(still needs visual changes on 2-3 skins tho). My champion. My Udyr. For the longest time, starting around 6.10 Udyr struggled so hard to keep up.I probably stopped playing udyr when the jungle exp was shifted around a bit that made playing udyr a pain,( around the 6.14-6.24) When the way the Jungle role was re-focused Udyr needed to be re-modernized. No longer was just powerfarming and resetting camps a correct way to play the game. The only way you could really gank was tiger max, but it was severely feast or feminine with little way to farm outside purchasing tiamat (its not like you could later max phoenix and the Dot was strong but required spamming and alot of CDR) On tiger you could only build full damage or triforce.

There was also a certain blandness with Udyr, He needed a certain Modernization with the newer jungle as I mentioned, that would allow him to gank earlier inbetween camps(I listed my method for ganking below, note I always put 3 points in bear stance after Q is maxed for mobility). It didn't take much skill to just spam your Q/R then W and rotate to E every once in awhile,you had to build ad for turtle lifesteal or have ap for turtle shield to be of use and it had to be maxed 2and. **NOW **there is loads of little micro tricks you can do with Udyr. Having to keep an eye on if your tiger strike is up(so you can land multiple tiger-strikes at once and save mana). You can better heal off of scuttle crab. W DOESN'T have to be maxed 2and for it to be useful in combat. You can burn objectives with the new Q, making Udyr have objective control. A good Udyr can show he put work into his mastery of his champion. Lets not even talk about how much better Udyr is as a duelist again(still not super top-tier but it's whats needed for lane control) There is now so much that separates the players who have master'd Udyr's stance rotations and those who haven't but the changes are still new, so many people haven't bothered messing with it much yet.

(P.S anyone who hasn't tried, try running ghost on Udyr.Walk into lane when ganking, having a 3rd q up, use ghost if necessary, land the q you already have, then activate then let a 3rd q proc with your atck spd buff. Then bear stance stun and refresh q, this is a legit way of bringing damage to a gank especially when the allied champ your ganking for has cc, probably wont even need to ghost 100% of the time. Note this can be done at lvl 3 with 2 points in q and one in w,you'll most likely force a flash or get a kill.)

While this doesn't even scratch the surface of how grateful I am, I just wanted to say thanks, to the hardworking people of riot games, for not even forgetting the few of us that play ol'champs like . Though he still needs some skins to be polished (like his base skin &legacy notably), he's in a 10000x better place then he was and is more playable then he's been for awhile. <3 much love (I even made this new account to otp climb in celebration)