What to build/how to play Udyr now?

Koror·7/6/2016, 3:18:55 PM·1 votes·750 views

TL;DR: I figured this should go at the top to save time for readers. What do I build on Udyr now? Do I go a Tiger ArPen Hydra build? Full tank Phoenix? Lane with item 3512 and item 3060? Lane with new item 3124? Is it worth jungling Udyr anymore, or is top (or... mid?) better? Should I just go play Malzahar while he's still busted so I can spam push and force wins like I used to on Udyr? Any help is appreciated. Thank you. Below is sort of my story with Udyr, which shouldn't really affect item advice. If you're not interested, don't bother reading it. It's not important.

**Intro: **Skip if you don't care I started playing Udyr in late season four, and he has been my favorite champ ever since. He was really stable; I could carry with him; he was balanced (at least in my opinion); and everything was going great. Then, good old item 1402 came out. I found that I still had better luck with Devourer, so I stuck to it. However, I as soon as I saw Udyr in the professional play more than once (UOL Kikis played him once in S5, as did SKT Tom) and found out he had a 58% winrate, I figured both he and item 1402 were in for a nerf.

Nerfs: Also skip this if you don't care He got a some damage taken off of Phoenix stance and the Turtle shield was nerfed. item 1402 also lost 3% MS. I figured that was fair enough, and continued playing him with devourer. However, though his winrate was lowered a bit, he still was over 55% if I recall correctly, so phoenix and turtle both got larger nerfs. I was a little upset by this, as it affected them both early AND late game. I figured nerfing his early game (where I think most of the problem was) would be plenty. But then again, with sated devourer his damage would still be okay and I could just build a little extra health.

Summary of unimportant information: Then, sated devourer was removed, with phantom hit put on the new 3600 gold Guinsoo's, sort of screwing my preferred build path. This is kind of where I lost it. That combined with his moderate nerfs dropped his winrate down to 48%. These things seemed to be enough to confuse even Trick2g, who didn't release a "My Way" video for 6 patches or so. Today, 7/6/16, her release a 6.13 My Way that involved item 3512 and item 3060 going MID lane. Even he said he was a little frustrated with the nerfs, and he went through a item 3041 item 3078 item 1401 phase, so I think it's fair to say that Udyr is in a weird state right now. Ever since patch 6.9, I've sort of given up, as every time I've tried to play Udyr, it's gone rather poorly. Any advice is appreciated.

7 Comments

EndlessSorcerer7/6/2016, 4:01:27 PM1 votes

Haven't played him a whole lot recently, but something along the following lines might be worth trying:

item 3111 item 1401 item 3078 item 3075 item 3091 item 3512

Runes: MS Quints, Scaling CDR Glyphs, Scaling Health Seals, Attack Speed Marks Masteries: 6/6/18 (Strength of the Ages) Skill Order: R>W>E>Q

Even though there aren't a lot of health items, you'll still hit about 3k Health with Scaling Health Seals and Strength of the Ages and you have Turtle Stance.

It should provide good dueling potential due to the the combination of attack speed, MR reduction (amplifying the effects of Thornmail, Phoenix Stance, Gromp buff, and Wit's End) and durability.

cute irelia gf7/6/2016, 5:19:01 PM1 votes

Udyr is pretty dead now

KarthanRequiem7/6/2016, 5:36:42 PM1 votes

Don't play Udyr, hes underpowered.

I guess if you don't care about winning you can play him.