Why is Urgot Unloved and forgotten by Riot?

Hey, guys. I am a game fan and been playing since season 7 (not on this account) back when the tank meta was still hot.. I always loved playing support and top being always the type to help someone carry instead of doing it myself. Loved playing Maokai , Sion and Soraka both top and support. Then in patch 7.15 Urgot got reworked and was pretty interesting compared to other champs. But I still didn't really get hooked to him that much due to his range being a measly 350 units only and especially when in patch 7.20 Sterak's gage was restricted to only melee meaning that Urgot will not be that useful in teamfights. But what got me interested in him was in Season 8 when I got a Battlecast Urgot skin. So I decided to play him a bit... And then there was this problem.. If you plan on going max q first even with Corrupt bots you still burn your mana way too fast and his q being too small for a skillshot it wasn't really that easy to land against lanes like Yasou, kennen, karma, etc. So again I dropped him and focused more on Support lanes.. Especially when Pyke came. Then came Season 9 when I decided to leave support and go more for top lane as I wanted to try the single lane more without too much jungle ganks from both teams. I went first with Cho'gath with an AP build from Balori, which was pretty fun to play with... but then again being a champion full of skillshots and if you miss your Q you were pretty much dead... So I kept looking for a new champ to climb with.. Enter Patch 9.6 in which Urgot's w got a buff to be a toggle once you max it. Tbh I was hype about that and felt like this might actually make me love the champ. At that time I started watching a Streamer called Flyingbaklava.. He is a Zac/Urgot main and started abusing the new buff and made quite nice notes.. Because of the nerfs the Frozen Mallet got, it wasn't really viable anymore with Urgot and he had to stick to Tank items mainly after Black cleaver of course. Flyingbaklava decided to go for a greedy build, rushing Death Dance first and then going for Rightous Glory as the 2 core items. Now with Death dance's passive of healing 15% of the damage dealt with abilities meaning Urgot's w and passive echoing flames now healed a lot plus the Burst negating passive of converting damage into bleed, meaning that Urgot can now sustain himself in long fights pretty well and survive pretty much any burst. With that build I pretty much climbed easy into lanes like Darius , Renekton , and Jax pretty easily. What made it even better is the Conqueror buff near the end of the season giving 15% healing plus the Ocean soul... I was unkillable... But then Riot had to blueball me with decreasing that healing to 8% for ranged and of course the nerf of the souls which is fine by me... Why does Urgot have to suffer being put with Ranged but still having a very low range of 350 units with no mobility at all!!! So these changes really bothered me because it is like Riot just forgot that the made Urgot since they reworked him...

In Summary: Urgot can't be considered a ranged and desperately needs to be considered melee for the next reasons: (1) He has a very low range of 350 units with practically no mobility at all. (don't consider his e as a dash because it is pathetically small and can collide with pretty much and small pebble in the terrain) (2) The conqueror nerfs were pointed towards ranged units like Cassiopia , Ryze and draven , But with Urgot being considered ranged He got the big middle finger, while all other top lane champs were not affected by that. (3) Being a ranged champ prevents him from building the Amazing Item that is Sterak's Gage . I think that Urgot's mana cost should be reduced a bit, because it is pretty frustrating when I play against manaless champs like Mord , Garen and Renekton and them having no problem with their health at all... FFS even Darius Doesn't have a mana problem at all and can do his combo like 7-8 times before running out of mana... While Urgot run's out of mana if he uses his e like 3 times... it is sad tbh. If there would be a small Increase in Urgot's e Range that would be perfect.

Lastly, I thank you dear reader who stuck with me to the end after all my frustrated typing... But I do want my main to be loved a little you know... I welcome any discussions on this thread...

Thanks for reading <3 [sg-soraka]

IT IS NOT VIOLENCE... IT IS... PHILOSOPHY.