I've mained Udyr for as long as I can remember, and I've been switching back and forth between Tiger and Phoenix stances. Which one is more viable atm in the jungle? We have lots of options we can choose from. Which one of these options would be best in the current meta and why?
Tiger - Devourer Phoenix - Devourer Tiger - Warrior Tiger - Cinderhulk Phoenix - Cinderhulk
I feel like in this patch / meta you have to be ganking a lot. That said you can still go devourer, but you gotta go fast so probably pheonix.
I main Udyr, I used Phoenix for my first few games and then switched to Tiger. Never went back. Personally, before these recent patches, I had a strategy to snowball and end early so it worked well for me. Phoenix probably would have been more viable, but I'm stubborn. Now that games are going faster, it's almost imperative to pick Tiger so that you have higher single target damage. Your clears will be slightly slower, but you're much less likely to run into more than one person during laning phase and the extra single-target damage can get you snowballing to be a factor during the game.
Tl;dr: Tiger/Warrior
