Udyr Counters Classic 26.22

Udyr has to cross the whole gap on foot, and that walk is where Ashe does her work. Frost Shot slows him on every attack while the toggle is on, at eight mana a swing, so watch your own bar as closely as the gap. Volley spreads the same slow across a cone.

Distance sets the stun here. Enchanted Crystal Arrow buys more stun the farther it has flown, up to three and a half seconds, and units beside him take damage and a slow. Fire it down the lane at a Udyr still walking in. Point blank it still stuns, but nothing like that long.

Focus fills only while Ashe is out of the fight. The moment it tops out, her next basic attack is a guaranteed critical strike. Udyr is stacking on the way in as well, movement speed for every stance he enters, up to three. Spend the crit on him while he is still walking.

Against Teemo, Udyr's damage lands late. Tiger Stance loads his next basic attack with a heavy chunk that bleeds out of you across two seconds. Toxic Shot does the same from your side, dripping magic damage for four seconds past the hit. Read the trade when both clocks stop, not while they run.

Space in this lane is his to close, not yours to keep: Monkey's Agility pays Udyr movement speed for entering a stance, and it stacks three deep. Move Quick is your reply, but the passive speed on it goes quiet once he has landed anything, so the sprint is what you leave on.

Noxious Trap comes back one charge at a time, and the pack empties faster than it fills. At max rank a spent mushroom is twenty seven seconds from returning. Udyr is a jungler: cover the mouth he steps out of, not the lane. A trap planted mid fight lands where he already stood.

In a jungle fight, Udyr does not need to swing to hurt you: Phoenix Stance activation pulses fire at everything standing close for five seconds. Divine Blessing does not lift anyone out of that. It heals one ally and gives that ally twelve percent movement speed, and the pulses keep landing on everyone else.

Ground between you and his target does not need crossing. Intervention reaches from well back, and for the two and a half seconds it holds, whoever it lands on cannot be damaged. Damage immunity does not move Udyr, and he finishes that window on the same patch of ground he started it on.

Reach here is rented rather than owned, and it runs ten seconds. While Righteous Fury holds, Kayle swings from further out, each hit carries extra magic damage, and the splash catches anyone bunched up with her target. Give that window to a pack of monsters and the trade happens at his distance instead.