How to Fix Udyr
I am a Udyr Main for 2.5 seasons now. I played him during the madstone era and I absolutely fell in love with him. I climbed to Diamond 2, very close to diamond 1 with him last season. I got to diamond 3 twice maining Udyr. These changes below will make Udyr the champion we all crave for. This will keep his identity, his kit is already fine and doesn't need any huge reworks, just more mechanics involved. I hope you read this Riot.
Here's what you need to change to our beloved Godyr:
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Make it where you can put 5 points in Tiger, 4 Points in Turtle, 4 points in Bear, and 5 points in Phoenix and just buff the scaling of Turtle and the movement speed on Bear like it was originally with 5 points. This will ensure that at lvl 18, you will have all abilities maxed. Lvl 20 is just stupid and unbalanced.
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Increase the damage and shield on Phoenix and Turtle back to what they originally were before he was nerfed season 6 or increase them whichever you choose.
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Increase the movement speed by 5 and attack speed by 5% on his passive whenever he uses a abilities (10 movement speed, 10% stacks 3 times resulting in 30 movement speed and 30% attack speed for 5 seconds)
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Have unique passives when you max out your abilities on all stances i.e (Syndra) Maxing out Tiger Stance gives you a Tiamet AoE per auto effect and allows you to clear (resulting in not having to purchase a Tiamet early in the game and allows Udyr to split push). **Maxing out Phoenix Stance ** applies a 3 second DoT effect burning enemies from the fire to anyone applied by the every 3rd attack AoE (Think brand passive. This can be on champions preferably or minions if you want), Maxing out Bear Stance allows you to stun every 4 seconds instead of 6. (You can change it to 5 if you think its more balanced that way but this will gives players motivation teamfight more with their team) and finally Maxing out Turtle Stance gives you 10% damage reduction only when you activate Turtle Stance (I think 10% damage reduction is enough and not overly broken with his 200+ shield)
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Add a new mechanic to his Bear stance (increase the dash range on it because it is so hard to do anything when you are kited i.e. Ashe perma slow). Also give Udyr a CC reduction and/or Slow Resist when running towards enemy champions when bear stance is activated. (This will give Udyr even more motivation to teamfight and it also allows Udyr to pull more ganks off early in the game)
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Increase base mana at lvl 1 by 100 since Udyr is very mana hungry early in the game.
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If you can, add the item "Zephyr" back for Udyr. It was a really good item because it gave you the attack speed, CDR, and the Tenacity passive. Which in turn, allows Udyr more boot choices like Lucidity Boots (with ghost) or Ninja Tabis and Boots of Swiftness and not having to rely on Merc Treads for heavy cc teams.
Please don't change his kit, his kit is fine. He just needs new mechanics. Tiger allows him to play a completely different play-style and so does Phoenix. This gives Udyr more flexibility. Udyr is really versatile and can be played in many different ways and built differently too. The above "Syndra" passive changes will make it where Udyr can be skill maxed different ways throughout the game depending on the situation. These are my stand points as a Udyr player. I hope you can take all of these ideas or even some and turn them into reality.