Udyr Rework Similar to Aphelios?
The title states my main point. Both are auto attack based and switch between various forms, except Aphelios has other abilities to actually use.
_My rationale: _
- Game play is very linear. Phoenix for wave-clear, tiger for dmg, turtle for defence, and bear for mobility and stun. You're either running at or away from the enemy. Not much expression there.
- His in game thematic doesn't match his lore thematic. I understand he went to Ionia, but how are Turtle, Monkey(Passive), and Phoenix related to the Freljord bar Anivia(Who is an ice phoenix)?
- His visuals are pretty outdated, though that can be said for a lot of champions still.
I have no numbers, but I do have a general direction I think would be beneficial.
How it could be done:
Passive
Place his animal spirits here with description of what each does. Replace his current set up with 4 Freljord animals(Bear and Tiger can be kept).
Similar to Aphelios, each of 
's animals could have a finite resource that gets used up by abilities and is refreshed when not in use.
Like Aphelios, Udyr can have a Dominant and Secondary animal, immediately switching to the secondary when his resource gets depleted.
Like current Udyr, each ability can have a passive effect, and an on switch effect.
Q This slot can be used for his 'actual' ability based on his current animal, very similar to Aphelios. This gives Udyr a choice on when and where to use his tools.
W
This can be made similar to Aphelios aswell. However instead of switching between Dominant and Secondary, Udyr can choose which of his animals to transform into with a rotating selection similar to 
Q. To make this more convenient, his current secondary will always be the first one toggled so that he can double press W for instant switch to his secondary.
E I honestly don't know what to do here. I think it'd be cool to have some kind of jg monster interaction, but I can't figure out how to execute it. This ability would stay the same regardless of animal giving Udyr a reliable ability.
R All the animals. You read that right. New ult gives Udyr the passives of all his animals at once. In addition, all his abilities are replaced by the Q ability of his animals. Basically Yi ult on steroids.
I a lot of this is probably overloaded hogwash, but I think it'd be a neat update. I'd love to know your opinions on my idea and about an Udyr rework in general.
TLDR: Rework Udyr into melee Aphelios.
Cheers!
passive style
you can select between 5 stances (like how Kindred picks marks)
Q will always be some form of damage be it increasing DPS, a clearing ability, DOT effect, Lifesteal
W gets utility like a shield active, a small leap (similar to nidalees) for tiger stance, a stun, knockup, aoe slow
E allows him to switch back to the last most recently used form (so you can switch between two forms without having to go down and click for teamfighting a little easier)
R just enhances his abilities for a brief amount of time while giving him increased stats based on the form he's in
he likes while not allowing him to endlessly spam, but it should be a fury bar thats like a resource not something he can simply auto to regain because then he would spam on like a 2 second cooldown forever...
or 
and getting enemies into chases not unlike what 
can do . Nowadays, first of all he's comparably meh at farming unless he gets an early advantage, and also since a number of champions have stupid amount of dashes available, and he can get outrun by a good deal of champions, the meta evolved without him.
, there could be something interesting in there.
with a clearly better bear mechanic. I imagine there could be another animal which would be able to lunge or stick to an enemy (
yeah well that also exists), and really upon thinking about it, what would be best is the tiger form making him able to jump to an enemy (oh sorry the concept is already thought of 
).