Thoughts on double jungling with new Mordekaiser
Note: Pretty sure people don't do anything like this in soloqueue so don't talk about how i doesn't help there i'm well aware it doesn't.
So for anyone who follows lcs you'd know that lane switches happen relatively often, and in order to prevent the top laner from getting completely denied gold and experience for the first 5 mts of the game they simply follow the jungler around and help clear camps. Following that the jungler goes top (this is assuming you initiated the lane switch) to help the duo lane take the outer turret earlier and freeze the wave. Everyone backs and where people go from here generally varies from game to game.
So what does this have to do with mordekaiser?
One of the main problems with sending mordekaiser bot with a support is that you basically need an adc in this meta (and have for quite a while now). Sending an adc top at the beginning of the game is a little risky due to any number of things that could wrong (enemy top is a good duelist, jungler pressure, etc) that would set a gold reliant carry behind effectively making the game much much harder to win.
Regarding lane swaps, many tank/fighters aren't good at providing a fast clear. Since grabbing momentum is one of the best ways to come out ahead in a lane swap this can be crucial in setting the pace of the early game.
Mordekaiser has all the tools he needs to clear the jungle early (passive for tanking, guarenteed Q damage, aoe from E) other than the fact that his W doesn't work without another champion. Furthermore, with another champion his W provides a heal that works on monsters.
Next mordekaiser and the support can go bot to pressure the tower while the adc can farm and freeze top safely due to the lack of a tower there for the other team.
And finally, and what i think is the part of the rework that people underestimate the most, is the dragon pressure mordekaiser generates. For the most part, taking dragon means virtually nothing early game and is only useful towards getting 5th late game along with the fact that the multipliers become significant once champions actually have more ap and ad. But if mordekaiser gets a dragon it becomes very easy to push people out of lane and get a turret.
What would make this even cooler is if Morde's W passive (getting full exp from killing minions) applied to monsters as well making the double jungle that much more effective but I don't know if that's something Riot would consider adding.
Anyway this is just a half baked idea I came up so feel free to expand on it or discuss other ways we can get Mordekaiser to work in the meta.
Please PLEASE don't turn this into another CertainlyT hating thread, I'm interested in figuring out ways to make new Mordekaiser work. If you think it's impossible to make him work or that he's trash and not worth playing now feel free to ignore this thread.