Just give Udyr the Ezreal treatment

Maikal·2/18/2016, 12:47:20 AM·1 votes·331 views

Take away spell effects triggering on his abilities, then runic echoes becomes unviable on him and he still has 3 other jungle enchants that work on him.

By directly nerfing runic echoes, you hurt every other AP jungler with it even though most of them are in a good spot. By directly nerfing Udyr's base damage/shield you hurt his other play styles.

Except he'll still be op with these changes and then you will gut him with increased mana costs, cooldown increases in between stances, and bear stance/passive nerfs and make the only semi viable play style involve runic echoes. Then in a few months runic echoes will be removed entirely for some other jungle item and Udyr will remain in his grave.

4 Comments

weeaboomer2/18/2016, 12:48:58 AM1 votes

#gutdyr

fuck him.

Quepha2/18/2016, 12:50:52 AM1 votes

The goal with balancing is to allow for a multitude of viable, yet different strategies. Making a certain item/champ combination not work because you say so is kind of a last resort tactic when nothing else works.

EndlessSorcerer2/18/2016, 12:53:10 AM1 votes

They are nerfing Runic Echoes to weaken Udyr and Elise and Nidalee (among otherS) since they have been dominating with this item in higher ELO play.

They reduced the base values on Turtle Stance and Phoenix Stance's proc to nerf Udyr.