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Can I get some kind of context on the Morde changes?

Latitoast·8/7/2015, 12:42:32 AM·2 votes·459 views

Hi Mordekaiser

I'm a Mordekaiser main, not the best player in the world, I'm not some Challenger Morde main, I'm not the best Morde on the Korean server, I don't even have the champion mastered because of things like work, Grinding Bilgewater icons, trying to level Yorick at the same time as Morde, and some other excuse that doesn't make up for my lack of Morde mastery.

But I love Mordekaiser, and I've got a story that I can only hope equals out to "I'm a challenger Mordekaiser main why are you doing this Riot", so beware of Wall of China. I downloaded League because I saw Mordekaiser and thought he looked awesome 2-3 years ago, and when all the people that were getting me into the game told me not to play Morde, and that he sucked, I kept playing Morde. I got frustrated when I couldn't win, or even kill the bots, but I kept playing him. I was still a low level, so being the naive teenager that I was, I looked at a Mobafire guide and won some Morde games. I kept playing Morde, and the people who weren't the best players in the game, but were getting me into it were surprised that I even won with the champ. I continued to play Morde as I leveled up, he was always my favorite champion. I bought skins for him because I loved him so much, despite thinking that I wouldn't spend money on a F2P game. This soon became owning 2 skins, then 3 skins, then 4 skins and eventually 5 skins. I've dumped $25 into Mordekaiser and convinced a friend to buy me King of Clubs when I didn't have the money, when other people told me Mordekaiser was the most cancerous champion in the game aside from Yorick, and had rage inducing mechanics that needed to be changed, I didn't really care. I just kept doing what I loved. Occasionally I'd have moments where I'd get down from the negativity of people who questioned my pick, but every time I'd come crawling back to Morde, because he was without a doubt the funnest champion in the game. Morde is the only champion that I can play over and over again without getting bored. I loved everything about him. His lane pushing, the fact that he can be played as a mid laner and a top laner, his metal theme, his skins, his aoe, his ult, his voice, I can't get enough of this champion.

Needless to say, when his rework was slated I was anxious, It could be good or bad, I was excited and nervous at the same time, and when the rework was revealed and his stats were put on the pbe, my heart almost skipped a beat.

Mordekaiser as a bot laner, with less aoe lane pushing, and a dependence on a support being nearby to let him use his w, the loss of the armor and mr buff, the loss of an aoe q, the list goes on and on.

All of this scared the hell out of me, and with no context to tell you "It's okay buddy Morde is gonna be okay".

I am aware that my opinion will basically be discarded because "haha low elo pleb you know nothing", and that the Morde changes will go through without being tweaked much, and I'll just have to deal with it.

But at the very least, can I please have some form of context, or reasoning behind these changes?

If anyone at Riot actually sees this, thanks.

5 Comments

TraakSC8/7/2015, 1:02:11 AM1 votes

Or you could test it your yourself when it comes to the PBE.

ModKnightsKemplar8/7/2015, 1:09:46 AM1 votes

Morde wasn't seen as being in a healthy spot, and CertainlyT had some ideas, I guess?

Other than that, I'm not sure there's a great reason. They must've felt that he needed a drastic change to be brought back to viability, and CertainlyT can deliver on that.

Big Lincoln8/7/2015, 2:34:09 AM1 votes

Don't quote me on any of this because it's all mostly theory and spitballing

I think his Q is potentially better. Outside of using it for cheaper waveclear than E, you really used it to smack one dude. Now you can use it to smack three guys and I think Sheen is still a deceptively powerful item on him, if not even better than before thanks to each hit of Q getting higher and higher damage.

W got shafted. We can only hope that CertainlyT realizes this is a bad idea after the umpteenth time it's put directly on his monitor. I... appreciate(?) where he wanted to go with it, but it's just not good. Maybe keep the heal at the expense of its original damage, but I like the original W skill much better.

I think E is fine early levels, sort of. 155 is very low for rank 5, though; I think it should be buffed up to 200 or so to allow AP Mord a little more breathing room.

The rework isn't in the best spot right now, but I think we can work with it and hope Riot's willing to listen. W is definitely the worst offender, along with his reduction in his base MS. Q might be a net buff, although I've been having trouble getting any shield out of it at all. E is a mix-up; it's objectively better for tank-kaiser since he gets 15% shield guaranteed for every champ he hits with it, but I think the reduced base damage hurts his damage-focused builds more than necessary to compensate for the AD ratio added on.