3 Thoughts on how Mordekaiser's Rework can be improved

Kingsgrave··1 votes·583 views

Just to preface this, no matter how hard Riot tries I don't think Mordekaiser will ever work as a Bot Laner just like how I don't think Tahm Kench will ever work as a functional Top Laner no matter how hard Riot tries. However, Mordekaiser's rework makes him more thematically interesting and gives him some awesome unique strengths. His Q has a lot more damage now but you can't just fire and forget and he has a lot more build options now. His W, when you can use it, is pretty fucking rad honestly. The changes to his passive are also really nice since it makes you want to trade with it more instead of just storing up a mega shield.

**The following are changes to improve the Top Lane Mordekaiser and give him more of a Pushing and Objective control identity that Riot seemed to be going for. **


1. Mordekaiser Q bonus damage works on Structures at 40% value

Allows him to be more solidified as a pusher and objective taker with the clear weakness of "he can't get away." Reduced value because otherwise he would just dunk turrets super fast which is probably not a good thing.

2. W can be used on Minions for 40% damage and full MS/heal

Push that lane and control those waves gurrrrrrrrrrrrrrl.

3. Base MS goes back up to 340 from 325

I don't really understand why you made a character with no viable escape moves the slowest in the game. Please revert this. It just makes him painful to play and push with.

5 Comments

ModThe Djinn1 votes

{quoted}**The following are changes to improve the Top Lane Mordekaiser and give him more of a Pushing and Objective control identity that Riot seemed to be going for. **

Give it a bit before you make the call that he doesn't work bot lane: apparently his performance so far has actually been pretty solid, and the things you'd suggest ALL serve to give him much more power in bot lane -- something you have to be extremely wary of if his performance is currently decent.

Kingsgrave1 votes

[{quoted}](name=The Djinn,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=BUglAIEJ,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-08-21T21:15:51.466+0000)

Give it a bit before you make the call that he doesn't work bot lane: apparently his performance so far has actually been pretty solid, and the things you'd suggest ALL serve to give him much more power in bot lane -- something you have to be extremely wary of if his performance is currently decent.

If he is supposed to be a bot laner he also needs more pushing power in general.

ModThe Djinn1 votes

{quoted}If he is supposed to be a bot laner he also needs more pushing power in general.

His pushing power comes less from his ability to take towers rapidly and more from his ability to instantly clear waves, steal Dragon and/or the enemy carry, and push that way. From my experiments with him so far he actually pushes pretty solidly if you get any sort of decent lead with him, which is, I feel, just fine. If his Q damaged towers I think you'd find him shredding them FAR too quickly.

The Fast1 votes

I think you underestimate the waveclear W gives you actually.

Zelis1 votes

so far only issue i have had with him bot lane is from teamates that are unaware of his changes/don't ever read patch notes. I get accused of being a troll and lane partner always leaves lane to raom and im left with a leveled up w with nothing to cast it on. Enemy then catchs on and I got dove/have to abandon lane because teamates refuse to help the "troll morde". riots gonna have a hard time changing the meta when everyone is so set in the meta. My games have all started out well. I really wanna like bot mord but right now i dont see it working well outside of playing with friends or a select few who actually read patch notes

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