After playing quite a few games with Kled...

I think he's pretty trash. People have liked to talk about "OH he has SO MUCH HEALTH!" but from what I've seen and what I've tried he's just a slightly better Aatrox with similar issues.

My biggest issue is that if you ever get dismounted then 8 times out of 10 you just die. Riot gave us the idea that you could go ham and get Skaarl back and win the fight but if someone has gotten you low enough that you lose Skaarl then you're low enough for them to just outright kill you before you can get Skaarl back.

Since all he has when he's dismounted is his Q and W passive and his movespeed goes to a baby crawl, you just die before you can get Skaarl back. Maybe if his base attack speed wasn't so terrible you could remount but you typically just sit there trying to wimpilly auto them and using Q to get courage back pushes you away from the enemy so you can't get courage. There's too much CC and mobility in the game for you to work in a teamfight unless the entire enemy team just forgets you're there.

Itemization is also bad for him and is like Aatrox, you want to build AD so you have damage but if you do that then you die as soon as you get dismounted and if you build tanky then you don't die as fast but you also only have one source of cc outside of your ult and it's a delayed CC that's easy to get out of thanks to all the mobility there is in the game so you don't die but you're also useless.

He really needs to be able to jungle better because its the only place where he can be safe and avoid his horrible lanning phase.

If I were to buff him, the first thing I'd do is give him an E ability for when he's dismounted because if he's going to be so pathetic without Skaarl then he could at least have more than ONE ability while being useless.