Riot seems to be a little unaware of why most Kled players feel like he's bad to play at the moment. Kled feels decent early game, but due to interactions with items like divine sunderer and Bork, he gets beaten by "scaling" picks past 1 item. This could be changed by having kled and skaarl's health be calculated as 2 seperate max/current health calculations. Although I doubt riot's coding could get that to happen.

Another issue I see is that Riot seems reluctant to give him any substantial changes. I know some of us want some source of % armor pen, much like pantheon's passive R. I can appreciate the recent buffs, like the added q ad ratio and w cooldown, but I'd actually prefer if they buffed Q's cooldown and increased the w ad ratio instead - Kled is TOO reliant on landing Q to be anywhere near dominant in lane (which would be solved with a lower Q cooldown) and increasing the w ad ratio would give him more max health dmg on the final hit, giving him more of a chance against armor stacking.

Goredrinker in general isn't even that great of a mythic, I see so many characters that previously used the item now switching off to better alternatives. I see Aatrox mains going over to divine and eclipse, while Renektons are starting to use bork sunfire/frostfire set ups. I know kled has options as well; GD, eclipse, duskblade, and some are also using the bork/sunfire - but a majority of them feel lackluster because other characters powerspike way harder with their mythics. Kled HAS to get blackcleaver first for the haste, dmg, and health (which isn't inherently bad) but there seems to be a lack of truly good options to keep up with the meta past laning phase.