I'm going to be honest about Mordekaiser
First off, 
was known as a super bursty armored knight metal mage who destroyed anyone with Deathfire Grasp (TY). He was well known as a AP burst mage, probably the only worthy bursty AP mage which people may or may not liked it.
Riot wanted to change him. They wanted to make him more interesting instead of just "DFG Q W E R KILL" champion.
They made him a relentless Juggernaut who people thought it was something unreal. A passive better than Zilean's passive who was a little bit overtuned. They made his Q a litteral 3 hit blow up on any champion (Before nerfs), his W only castable on champions (but still deal alot of damage and movement speed), his E just added AD ratio, and his ult... quite... outstanding...
His ult was so freaking... uh... good but clunky with the dragon ghost. We and Riot thought it was something out of this league world. People were thunderstruck about it and thought it was so silly having it alongside yourself but it was fun.
So was made into a duo bot lane. His AA range was 200, which it was pretty sick and cool (personally I freaking loved it), his laning potential was so crushing, having 1 or 2 levels infront of your enemies (imagine Zilean Mordekaiser duo bot), and he was... just cool to play.
When Mordekaiser was picked in Worlds, people were SOOOOO happy, seing something other than a ranged ADC. People were so reliefed to see something different, something hyped for this years worlds. He was so cool to see some play (finally) after being benched for so much time.
PEOPLE WERE HAPPY TO SEE MORDEKAISER BEING FOTM RIOT. PEOPLE WERE HAPPY TO SEE SOME PLAY OUTSIDE OF SOLO QUEUE.
For some people, duo lane wasn't that hyped (i'm looking at you Malicious). They prefered him being seen as a solo laner. I personally loved it being both duo and solo.
The problem is, people that played before weren't that happy. And this is why Riot needs to listen to people and their community.
They need to not fuck up a champion whose playerbase liked playing him. (also Fiora for example)
What they needed to do is to create a champion similar and do what they did to . They needed to test this on something started from the 0, instead of starting from something already completed.
I apologize for no TL;DR. This was just something I wanted to let out about Mordekaiser. Thanks for reading.
. What most people don't remember, or even talk about, was Season 1 Mord. THE Mord. The guy that would build full tank 40% cdr, outlast entire teams, get a ghost, and run a train on everyone AND their towers. THAT is the Mord I want to play again, and the one that fits him the most gameplay-wise and thematically. As long as Mordekaiser is centered around burst damage, he will never be in a balanced state.
