Struggling with jungle Udyr. Need help!
Hey guys,
I’ve been learning Udyr recently and absolutely love his playstyle. I’m currently Platium 4 and having some success with the standard AP Tank build. It feels great—I’m beefy enough to survive, but I can still pump out meaningful damage in teamfights with Awakened R.
But whenever I try to run the AD Bruiser build, I get absolutely rolled. Here are the main issues I’m running into (tbh, some of this applies to my AP/Tank games too), and I'd love some advice:
1. feeling super squishy early and lose 1v1s. I always seen AD Udyr as this insane 1v1 monster because of Awakened Q, but I just end up losing trades or getting bursted before I can even get my damage off. I struggle super hard in the jungle against champs like Diana, Graves, Master Yi, etc.
2. Ganking without Ghost feels impossible. Unless my Ghost is off cooldown, I can never find a good angle to pull off a gank. Because of the lack of mobility, I just end up full-clearing my own jungle on repeat. I only ever invade if I see the enemy jungler show cross-map. It just makes me feel way too weak and pretty useless to my team early on.
3. Mid/Late game teamfights. Because I feel so squishy with the AD build, I can never find a decent angle to join teamfights or pick off. I know AD Udyr wants to 1v1 and side-lane, but as the jungler, I can't just AFK split-push all day—I have to be grouped up to contest dragons and Baron.
How do I actually impact the map with this build? How do you guys position for objective fights, and how do you force plays early game?
Any tips, pathing tricks, or mindset shifts would be huge. Thanks!