Is there any help planned for him, or is he going to get ignored because his design does not match Riot's direction and he's to be left in limbo, just like Urgot, where Riot doesn't want them to exist, but also can't outright delete / redesign the champion for fear of backlash.
I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I WAS ONCE A hiccup CHAMPION sobs into drink
I am glad that Riot brought him back to being a Melee Centric Mage instead of that garbage "I only know how to Q from 1500 range"
However they REALLY need to increase the damage reduction on his W
i feel like if they just removed the clunky feeling from his W he would be a lot more fun to play and his winrates would improve substantially. that alone is pretty much the reason i stopped playing him.
That's interesting, because 
has the highest win rate right now, at almost 58%, and is picked or banned 51% of the time. Riot has their favorites.
Another victim of reworkomania 
The hell you talking about? they already redesigned him... into the ground.
Fnatic did good with him. And if you have ever played against a good one you'll see how annoying he is
Gragas has 4 aoe's, poke, a gap closer, percentage maximum health, soft cc, hard cc, and sustain. His kit is amazing for the top lane, I just don't think people realize this and can't get past his old identity as a mage. He doesn't need any work done, people just need to realize how strong he actually is in top then he will be picked a lot more.
The problem might also lie in the builds that are listed, they are building nothing but damage even though he is an ap bruiser now not a mage.
He desperately needs lower mana costs. And ap junglers in general need some form of mana sustain because it doesn't exist at the moment and it's really pissing me off. You can't even build mana/mana regen items on junglers due to their build paths and how starved for damage you already are. Like ROA is the best possible item for gragas but you can't build it because it's really inefficient in the jungle.
Also his W shouldn't cost mana and should not have 1s channel time during which you can't do anything. SO CLUNKY.
—and gets picked in pro play... Go figure.
It's not the buff he needs
It won't make any damn difference
A small buff he needs is 100000x better than a large buff that he doesn't
He'll get some minor buffs eventually, I'm sure. I really like his playstyle, actually. Played him in an ARAM and did very well, while having a lot of fun. But we lost. So maybe that plays right into your point. XP
Point being, I don't think his playstyle is so bad. His numbers might need a tweak, but I really like how his kit plays into this theme. It feels like playing a crazy drunkard. I consider his rework to be a great success, and it would make me VERY happy to see some numbers get bumped to help him out.
It sounds like you disagree pretty strongly. Do you not like the way he plays?
He's getting a buff to his Q slow. +10% at every rank.
His auto animation for an empowered W needs to be smoother and faster. It's probably the clunkiest ability in the game right now. If your empowered Auto from W is cancelled right before you smash the ground it wont deal damage...
Buff W channel time to .75s from 1s and make the empowered Auto much smoother and faster and he'll be great again. His W is way too unreliable for his main ability to deal damage and tank.
Or allow him to channel while he uses his E which would make for some sick plays. He has too much counterplay in his initiation because his E is slow and you have plenty of time to back off when you see him channel his W.
