
I think the puddle timer is fine personally, but it could be more interesting to have a puddle become severely weakened after a set time rather than outright disappear.
For example, down b produces just a single bubble, which would both be funny and sell how much weaker puddle is when “evaporated.” It could also maybe disable empowering strongs/side special?
The main thing of course though is up b. Perhaps it could let orcane teleport as normal, but remove the hitbox and also force a parry stun afterwards (maybe even the extended parry stun that scales with distance that Absa Cloud has). Maybe also remove the ability to mix up with puddleless up b/orcahop.

This is similar to what has been suggested in:
https://rivals-of-aether-ii-patch-17.nolt.io/72
https://rivals-of-aether-ii-patch-17.nolt.io/111
https://rivals-of-aether-ii-patch-17.nolt.io/127