Tiger Udyr

Nystrum·10/26/2015, 6:03:45 PM·2 votes·496 views

So I came back after not having played for a few years and I noticed that udyr's tiger rend can no longer be used by activating the stance and then changing to for example bear stance and getting off a stun+rend but no patch notes that i can find reflect this change. I recall a red once mentioning that it was never intentional but they had no plans on changing it as it was a nuance of tiger udyr. Yet this is no longer the case as once you change stance you lose the tiger on-hit effect. Just wondering if and when this was changed/working as intended.

7 Comments

Drive By Max10/26/2015, 6:40:39 PM1 votes

It should still.

OrganicT10/26/2015, 6:43:13 PM1 votes

You mean Doritos Hands Udyr (akka base skin)

Morsigil10/26/2015, 7:29:33 PM1 votes

I haven't tested it/noticed, but if it HAS changed it probably occurred when they updated his abilities. It was the update that removed the 3 individual attacks on his Q and tweaked his numbers.

Drive By Max10/26/2015, 7:35:02 PM1 votes

It's probably a visual thing, the hand thing is just for the stance, like how phoenix gets the ring of fire and such, tiger just gets the claws.

Zair Umbras10/27/2015, 12:05:26 AM1 votes

I'd guess it was changed when his Q had been changed to do physical damage and the active give him attack speed rather than it being passive and the new passive is 15% of his total AD added in every AA.

Patch 3.7, they had mentioned them making his Q pressing to be for more than just the first 5 seconds so it is possible that they had changed the ability entirely and when fixing that, they had forgotten that it originally was pressed then you'd press the E after the Q and do a stun+rend at the same time. Likely oversighted since the Q change was such a huge buff that Udyr was actually played Top for a while there with an early game that made pre-nerf Rivens cry in a corner. Literally. Udyr with ArP runes going Tiger Udyr would sit in Bear form AA'ing minions and if an enemy without armor items would get near, you'd AA for the stun, switch to Tiger and half life them with the Q alone. It's so powerful that you can start Q and solo any camp by pressing Q at the start of the game, AA the minion, then press Q for the AA buff on top of the 2nd shot of your Tiger claws, similar to what you'd do with Phoenix Udyr except with Tiger, you could kill a blue in about 4 seconds with 15 AD in your runes without smite.

Tiger Udyr was scary as hell after they had buffed Q, so for them to do a minor oversight like a Q+E combo? It's no surprise. It would be OP as hell given how much damage that Q does.