FIX MORDEKAISER!!!

FearTheDankness··4 votes·658 views

Mordekaiser, the master of metal, the number 1. These are all titles bestowed on someone who was once truly the Lord of summoners rift, Mordekaiser , a champion who now is a disgrace on the battlefield. According to Elophant.com mordekaiser's popularity hasn't gone above .1% in the past month and according to lolking.net he is the 9th least Popular champ this month. I for one, have personally never seen him played by anyone other than myself. There was once a time when Mordekaiser was a terror to behold one of the few champs who could actually 1v5 and come out alive at the end with a ghost as a friend and a pentakill as a reward, but now he is nearly useless. Mordekaiser is a mid lane champ, and now a days mid lane is full of fast, ranged champions such as Zed and Yasuo , but Mordekaiser , with 340 movement speed and no slowing or crowd control effects of any kind is a sitting duck against fast opponents and ganks. In fact, according to the league of legends wiki page for Mordekaiser , "Mordekaiser is the only champion in the League of Legends to not having any crowd control and mobility that can help him escape in one kit." Some possible ways Riot could help this problem is, 1) giving him higher movement speed. 2) making his W effect not only form a "shield" but also give a movement buff. 3) making his E effect slow enemies. His passive ability, Iron Man is a very helpful tool in early game, but in late game, might not as well exist, in a fight his shield is quickly taken out which leaves slow, low health Mordekaiser a very easy target, a buff raising the max amount of shield that Mordekaiser can have would make him more durable in any sort of late game fight. My last complaint would be that his E effect has too small of a range if you removed the nerf that connected the siphon of destruction to Mordekaiser rather than letting you cast it further off would be a greatly appreciated buff, especially if the movement buff is not made.

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RazorTS2 votes

Morde is an old champion who was nerfed multiple times in his prime, he was terror in toplane back then you must note that game was still young ganks were rare and we had small champion pool, now hes just a sitting duck top, and outclassed mid, he NEEDS something in him to help him compete for picks. Some ideas what could help to achieve that

Speed steal on his E would be nice to have (x amount per champ hit) Late game passive scaling (slower decay 4/3/2, damage % 30/37.5/45 of dmg done) Ulti buff (back to 25% of pet's stats, disables champion healing when active, buffing back his pet stats)

Malicious Metal1 votes

This is more like it^^

Malicious Metal2 votes

I play him top anyways. Giving him minor cc could help him but imo he's fine :P

Maple Crusader2 votes

It's quite problematic to change Mordekaiser now. He's been nerfed so much due to being an unkillable lane bully. With all the ranged and mobile champions taking top and mid, It would be the best decision to rework his kit entirely so that he's not broken. CC on the Master of Metal would be very helpful due to his short range. It's simply too risky to get into fights without being tanky. It would be like if Ryze or other short range mages didn't have any CC.

NuSix31 votes

I'm going with option 5:

Completely retool Mordekeiser for top, jungle, or support role -- but keeping his unique qualities, i.e. shield and abilities cost HP. Mid-lane is too crowded anyway and his range is too short to wave clear without being harassed to death.

I've had him in my character pool forever since I liked the character, he's cool looking and funny as hell, but it's just not worth the effort in any way. I'm sure you're way better with him than I am, but that shield just goes away so fast I don't even see how it helps in early game. For abilities to cost HP I need a result a little more worthwhile, or at least the ability to provide insane utility to my team if no damage.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

I agree with Lung, here.

His kit sadly has become lackluster in so many aspects that simple changes don't do it. He truely deserves a rework.

1011001110001 votes

I played mid Morde against a mid Ziggs not too long ago. Game went fine, got the win with clutch catches and good teamfights. :^)

A slow on his E would be nice though, would give him some power to land his Q against ranged champions.

Kowe The Ewok1 votes

Maybe I'm completely off - but maybe changing only his Q and adding interaction to his skills might do the trick:

Q (Changed): Morde smashes his club into the ground, shattering earth, creating a fissure (Travelspeed 1500) (Range 700) After a 0.5s enemies who still stand in the fissure are knocked up for 0.5s.

W (Additional effect): Now slows target within a 300 radius around the target by 5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 %

E (Additional effect): Now creates a cone in front of Mordekaiser and behind him. If Mordekaiser faces his target and hits it mid air target it gets knocked back by 250 units. If Mordkaiser faces away from the target and hits it mid air it gets pulled towards him. (May the Force be wil you)

This way he has reliable soft CC and unreliable hard CC. His abilities gain a synergy which each other and force him to play more thoughtful: Instead of the usual "always use E for poking" mentality.

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