Talk:Udyr/@comment-15020375-20131104025332/@comment-5489694-20131106131847

He needs to be "gated" early game through mana tbh His abilities are spammable and do a lot for such a low cost. It's less his mana costs and more his mana pool, but I guess it just depends on how you look at it tbh. Look at the difference in cost between rank 1 and 5 of his spells, 12 mana isn't a lot and 3 less per rank is next to nothing. Udyr's mana costs basically become a non-issue by building any one item that increases his mana pool or his pool naturally grows (and spells cost less I suppose).

W/o a small pool early game Udyr would be able to bully pretty much everyone around. His kit does great damage, especially early game; provides a strong low cd shield along with lifesteal; and has a low cd ms buff that allows him to stun a target every 6 seconds. He still has to manage his mana w/blue buff early on because his pool is so small and it's good that he has to imo.

Riven and Garen are heavily "gated" by their cd's (although Riven's get really short as she ranks them for some reason) especially early game.