Idea for Morgana's Q

CoolKnightST··1 votes·470 views

Dark Binding

  • FIRST CAST: Morgana channels for up to 3 seconds, increasing Dark Binding's root duration & range over 1.5 seconds. Morgana can move while channeling.
  • SECOND CAST: After a brief delay, Morgana releases a sphere of dark magic that travels in a line, dealing magic damage to the first enemy hit and temporarily rooting them. MAGIC DAMAGE: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300 (+ 90% AP) ROOT DURATION: 0.5 - 2 / 0.75 - 2.25 / 1 - 2.5 / 1.25 - 2.75 / 1.5 - 3 RANGE: 1100 - 1400

At the end of the channel, Dark Binding cancels and refunds half of its mana cost.


#Other ideas

  • During the channel the projectile width increases rather than the range or just both
  • If the binding hits Morgana gains a small movementspeed boost while walking towards the enemy champion.
  • The channel slows like morgana (like xerath Q does). Since her E makes her immune for slows this could be an intressting interaction.

#Some notes that you need to know

  • So as you can see the channel concept is similar than Xerath. However their are a fell compleetly different aspects to it:
    • While channeling Xerath gradually slows himself. Morgana does not.
    • Xerath is AOE while Morgana is single target. You can clearly see this in the stats that are provide.
  • In the current state of the suggestion the range have been changed to 1100 -1400 from 1175.
  • The max root duration has been unchanged.
  • Overal this still can be counted as a nerf. So expect compensation on one of her other abilities like (note that this are just raw examples. And are not part of the topic in this discussion):
    • Her passive
    • Her W (like better scaling or some utility for herself like granting ms while walking over it)
    • Her E (like healing for part of the damage that is absorbed that could replace the function of the passive).

So what do you think?

4 Comments

Maximum Morde2 votes

Why bother changing her? You change anything and you break her kit in solo lanes cause it all depends on each other. W relies on Q and R to do its damage. R relies on Q and E to land full duration.

Rather than tweak, they would have to overhaul her rework style. After Morde, I'm not sure I can take another rework to my main. Permabanned status sucks.

A long time ago, her W used to shred MR. This was changed because her play pattern was dip people in the pool to stack the shred, and then nuke them from orbit with Q. I doubt Riot will make any changes to her W as far as utility any time soon.

MudintheWater1 votes

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Why bother changing her? You change anything and you break her kit in solo lanes cause it all depends on each other. W relies on Q and R to do its damage. R relies on Q and E to land full duration.

Rather than tweak, they would have to overhaul her rework style. After Morde, I'm not sure I can take another rework to my main. Permabanned status sucks.

A long time ago, her W used to shred MR. This was changed because her play pattern was dip people in the pool to stack the shred, and then nuke them from orbit with Q. I doubt Riot will make any changes to her W as far as utility any time soon.

Yeah I hope Riot doesn't touch her just because I'm afraid they will pull a Darius and I'll never see her again. That said, her passive was recently vited third most useless for mid lane mages (behind Liss and Zyra) so if they could make it more interesting that would be awesome. Just as long as they don't pull a Garen.

Decrit1 votes

...why?

I mean, the idea is cool by itself and morgana' s Q can sometimes be too much... but why to her? She does not need anything like that.

Sometimes things are just best to be kept simple, and morgana Q while powerful has already enough interaction.

You make comparisons with Xerath 's Q, but you don' t put them in the right context: morgana isn' t that long range mage that can siege from distance, even tought she has siege potential by herself.

StealWolverine1 votes

Not even a minor nerf. Trading a small range buff when charged for telegraphing your shot for 1.5 seconds There would have to be some pretty big buffs elsewhere. As far as your buff suggestions, a width increase isn't that great as it just makes it harder to get between minions. Ms buff on hit isn't really that useful as if you've successfully landed the bind you generally don't have a problem getting to the enemy to use ult. Ms on w is probably just about as useless unless it is a pretty big boost. She's already got healing on passive.adding it to her e is kinda random as due to its CD you still need to be saving it for blocking cc not tiny heals.

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