The ONE change Mordekaiser needs if he's going to be at least decent in solo lanes
Give us our bloody harvester of Sorrow. You've already sown quite a bit of sorrow in the Mordekaiser player base, harvest it and convert it into this tiny little "buff". It won't even make him stronger in your (imo kinda silly) preferred role as a bot lane bruiser but still give him the gentle nudge he will most definitely need to be as fun/strong/good as he was prior to his rework. To clarify why he needs the W: -You hit his E extremely hard, making his wave clear pitiful with the lack of other AoE in his kit(Q being single target) He has no access to it solo so he won't be able to push anywhere near as hard as other top laners.
-It gives him back some more consistent means to gain shield when not already bashing someone's head in (m8) and the heal might just be what he'll need to disregard spellvamp and build straight into his essential items. Let's be honest here, you not only hurt his early game damage but didn't bother lowering his health costs, making you feel as if you hurt yourself more than your enemy when using your spells.
-It literally doesn't affect DuoKaiser at ALL. The AoE damage is still only doubled when the two shrouds touch, favoring using it on your allies regardless. If you feel he gets too much free heals out of the ability simply give it a health cost when used on himself.
-It had a more symbolic meaning. Just like Versailles had after the first world war; it shows us solo laners just how much you seem to hate the idea of letting us play him as a solo steamroller and makes us feel unloved T^T
Just my two cents though, I'll be spamming my main man Morde 24/7 after the patch so that I can confirm my doubts on the effectiveness of SoloKaiser. ~M.M
EDIT: After playing a few games with the new Mordekaiser I can only confirm this to be true. The only thing holding him back to be actually kinda good in top is him being unable to cast Harvester of Sorrow onto himself! I've had some rather tough matchups up there and at times I wished I could latch the damage shroud unto a minion and gain some shield from a distance or push the wave with a W+E combo. His teamfighting is really, really strong and he's a great duellist. Gets kited easily though. Overall I think the new Morde would be way more fun than the old if we could actually use our W. If we get this one little change you not only would make the entire Mordekaiser playerbase happy but actually make this somewhat of a great rework; opening up new strategies and teamcomps while still letting the former mains play him the way they always did.
bring me to top lane with you~
Bot lane doesn't have to be 2 people~