User blog comment:WhoWANTScake/Super Sonic Udyr Interceptor/@comment-128.230.201.82-20130220204203

Udyr, in my opinion at least, is a very situational pick. His jungle clears and counterjungling/dueling potential are exceptional, and his ability to snowball is pretty solid. However, he's extremely easy to kite as he is a purely melee champion and no gapcloser outside of a movement speed boost. On top of this, warding, especially with the advent of sightstone and the oracle's nerfs, make it extremely difficult to ganks lanes with compotent players in them, simply because Udyr cannot close reliably. Having said that, he does piss damage when he doesn manage to close.

If you're looking for good build paths for Udyr, build tanky. You have enough free steroids in your kit that you don't need to be stacking IE's, BT's and TF's. Besides, you're going to need the beefy when you're attempting to bum rush into the back line in teamfights.