So Riot's idea to update these four champions...

Is adding in extra passives to all of them.

I mean, sure, I guess they were made before every champion needed extra passives, but is that really a good thing? I guess Darius' new passive is just an extension of his current one, but Garen's is really weird. Skarner's passive is really stupid; it relies on his team to do anything, and his enemies get gold for preventing him from succeeding. And Morde...

I don't mind the idea that Morde is a duo lane bruiser. Really, I don't, anything that makes Marksman not mandatory is a decent idea. But Riot's going in the exact opposite direction. They're not giving him options to go in the bot lane, they're FORCING him to go into the bot lane. Straight up preventing Creeping Death from doing damage unless both instances are touching a champion is going to murder his solo lane potential, and makes his support choice really weird (if I pick a tanky melee, it's a double melee lane and I can easily get bullied. If I pick a squishy ranged, I'm asking Sona/Soraka/Janna to get into melee range with me. I guess my options are Thresh or Thresh!) His extra passive is basically 'he gets his ult before you do, here's hoping you're playing a champion that can bully him before then!'

I guess the only one I'm really upset about is Morde, but even the other three seem...lazy. Like, they decided 'ball of stat champions are bad; ball of passive champions are good!' I do not understand this.