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Mordekaiser could use a little help

Kelg··5 votes·661 views

Currently, Mordekaiser is sitting at a 48%(now dipping into 47%) winrate and tbh right now he feels like he has no redeeming qualities. He gets outdamaged by tanks, he gets melted by adcs and burst mages even with his overvalued passive and he just feels awful to play with his 325 MS and 0 gapclosers/CC, when every other champion in the game has speed boosts, slows, displacements and dashes.

The original reason he was so slow was because he did a crapton of damage with his Q, but now it's not very impressive at all and actually quite underwhelming. For being a champion with next to 0 utility, no mobility, and brings only damage to the table, Morde still gets outdamaged by a fair amount of champions(he's #66 out of every champion). Look at Zoe for example, out damaging Morde with 1 ability and putting herself in no danger at all, while Morde has to throw himself into a life or death situation to even try to compete.

Why would you ever pick current Morde? His ultimate isn't as good as people think and it's very situational. None of the keystones are that great on him... Phase rush is no SRS and aery is just a worse version of DFT. Glacial augment is pretty good for killing squishy champions but doesn't give you any damage to help kill tankier enemies, and Morde can't really utilize Grasp due to his slow movement speed and no ability to get in and out of fights.

As a Morde main, League is honestly becoming a chore to play because I feel like my champion can't even compete with anything anymore. He honestly needs some help right now... Yes, I know people consider his kit toxic/anti-fun, but some simple buffs could work wonders to bring him to a healthy and playable state without breaking him, at least until his VGU comes around. Any of these ideas would help a ton on him:

  • Movement speed bumped back up to 340, this should have been reverted after his Q was nerfed. This isn't even a major change, but more of a QoL buff.

  • Higher base armor or scaling armor. There is absolutely 0 reason why adcs should have more base armor than the slowest champion in the game.

  • Slightly higher HP scaling. loss of HP/lv runes hurt him.

  • Slightly higher scaling attack damage. Morde used to have the highest base attack, making item 3078 and item 3053 amazing to build on him

If Yasuo , a champion who nobody thinks is weak, can be buffed, then I think Mordekaiser could get a little bit of love as well.

10 Comments

Count Zubat2 votes

Ms and armor buffs are most desired for Morde, I also think they could already make Morde just be able to fully use his W on himself, without any minion or ally champion around, that could solve his problem of lack of damage imo. Oh, and finally just take away the garbage exp passive, nobody's making use of it anyways, it's a meaningless block of text on his W right now.

Oh, and when it comes to keystones, I actually like running Predator on him. It provides him with quite a reliable way to enage into/join a battle, as well as gives him a form of escape when ganked as long as you play it correctly.

Kelg1 votes

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Ms and armor buffs are most desired for Morde, I also think they could already make Morde just be able to fully use his W on himself, without any minion or ally champion around, that could solve his problem of lack of damage imo.

Oh, and when it comes to keystones, I actually like running Predator on him. It provides him woth quite a reliable way to enage into/join a battle, as well as gives him a form of escape when ganked as long as you play it correctly.

I'd love for him to be able to use his full W on himself. Maybe it would make jungle Morde more viable.

Mordepool1 votes

Removing 1 limitation from The W speed boost would be a nice Quality of Afterlife buff.

Mordepool1 votes

That Said 46-48% is what Riot considers acceptable for Morde. Most likely since They don't play him.
Even thier Playtest team admitted to neglecting to play him. Until about 3 months ago when they decided to pick up his playrate. Like that excuses it

voltzalotz1 votes

The one change I want for current Mordekaiser is to make it so you don't need to be near an ally to make W work

The steam life1 votes

the at the time 44% wr totally not weak champ. Like bro make your point but dont just complain about bias then show yours

Lùmen1 votes

Without reading this post, I guarantee you that if they fix some of the gamebreaking bugs that go against Mordekaiser (Drake can't properly target structures and not listening to commands, getting itself killed, heal delay on W, heal not functioning on W, Q damage not registering rarely) He would easily be a top tier champion. And even with all those bugs, he can still be a very good champion in the new 5v5 game mode that allows an entire coordinated team to work around his calls. TheKingOfEloHell said it himself and he's right. I'll edit my comment after I read what you have to say in this post

Troll for Trump1 votes

Buff all fighters basically

CyberBalt1 votes

I agree with pretty much everything you said, but sadly your efforts seem futile. Riot is incredibly stingy when it comes to changing this champion. Unless he dips under 46%, he's probably never getting changed.

Tychusfindlay9181 votes

I think his W should have the shred over time effect even if mordekaiser is the only one using it.

An MS buff to 335 would be nice

adding a .15 total AD ratio to W health steal might be preferrable to loading mordekaiser with more damage. As it stands right now, if you go AD-oriented juggernaut mordekaiser, the heal feels really shitty as the game goes on compared to more AP oriented mordekaiser.

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