User blog comment:KaptnKrok/Urgot - A Discussion!/@comment-4091261-20150311183403

I agree with everything here. Urgot's lore made him out to be a super-yolo behemoth who charged in 2v1 (Garen & Jarvan IV vs Urgot) and died. Then he got some second-wind upgrades to deal with them. His lore makes him out to be much like Sion but with one critical difference, he was empowered by the Zaun, not Noxus. Urgot spent a lot of time as the high executioner due to his severe injuries, meaning that he spent a large portion of time outside of battle.

That said I think the approach on Urgot should actually be LESS towards his tanky aspect and more towards his rank as an executioner. Urgot is only a former general but he is a high executioner, despite this fact he doesn't have an executing ability. His abilities don't work better if they are lower on health at all. Also Urgot is seeking vengeance on Garen, he should be equipped to destroy Garen.

My little idea on how to make his kit more relevant to Urgot, as a character, would be to make his ult somehow cause Urgot to do executing damage. I think if the armor/magic res boosts are replaced with executing damage, on his acid hunters, then it could work because then it would make Urgot transform the ult from, imminent death or funky point-and-click pull to high-risk, high-reward chaos. I believe this would bolster his dueling potential--where he excels in--at the cost of his teamfighting survivability--something he's still terrible at.

In any case, it's actually hard for me to think of Urgot as skinny. I can't imagine a lean build general jumping into fights as if he was a wrecking ball, because that's what his lore implied. If he was like Singed then it would make sense, but when Urgot was alive, there was no nerves loosing feeling at all. Urgot just jumped into battle because he could. I believe lean generals are more of an Ionian thing than Noxus, even Demacia isn't like that. Noxus is all about power and conquering, I don't think they would appoint a skinny wimp as a general in the front-lines. Only mages like Swain and Leblanc could pull that off. Or possibly if there was a Noxian ranger squad, though that wouldn't explain why Urgot has trouble since a ranged general wouldn't have reason to be in the frontlines.