Udyr's cool theme is wasted on a boring, lackluster, outdated, 3 ability kit. Agree or disagree?

Shmatar·12/11/2017, 5:00:40 AM·4 votes·326 views

Let me start by saying I don't think Udyr needs a buff, but I do feel he needs a change for three reasons.

  1.   Udyr is the only champion that gets functionally 3 abilities.  You generally pick tiger or pheonix, but not both.  The reason for this is if you want damage you cannot use both of them at the same time, if Q is on your R is off, if R is on your Q is off.  Only one will be procing at a time and they don't really overlap effectively. So you're better of maxing Q or R and then using W and E for utility. 
    
  2.   Even the 3 abilities that he does have are just changing his attack functionality.  It's okay to have a kit that's based around auto attacking, but a kit that does nothing more than change the stats of your attacks is not only boring to play, it means balancing him is harder.  If he gets ahead, he steamrolls you because hes just a ball of big stats, and if he gets behind he loses because hes a ball of weak stats.  
    
  3. Changing stances is often not out of strategy, but rather the incentive of cycling the same 3 moves as fast as you can. His passive, and the way the abilities work based on activation, make them most effective when they're cycled over and over. This means the theme of choosing an animal form to fit the situation is instead just a constant shift between the same 3 animals in the same order...over and over.

In summary, Udyr is a very thematically cool champion, which Is why he has been one of my mains for the past 5 years. However, his kit is a relic of an old game and should be changed the same way WW got a change. I do have some ideas on how to change his kit to be more interactive, and I will share them if you guys want. Or feel free to share your ideas on how to make the manbearcat more interesting.

2 Comments

Ok sure but why12/11/2017, 5:22:45 AM1 votes

The QWER passives don't overlap, but you can get all 4 of his actives AND his monkey passive to stack at the same time, giving you movement speed, attack speed, a shield, more movement/attack speed, and the weird pulsing thing at the same time

That, and if Riot reworked Udyr to anything other than having 4 different animals going, Spirit Guard Udyr would get the Pulsefire Ezreal Treatment: Secretly just being a legendary

Veraska12/11/2017, 5:41:41 AM1 votes

I would like to see what a modernization of his kit would look like, like we need to look at what his qwer actually incentivise udyr to do then change them to be mechanics and not just weird stat amplifiers