I hate being wrong. But..... Morgana Rune Discussion

Illabethe··1 votes·1,684 views

I've talked my head off about how I feel about Morgana's current state, and mostly that stems from my inability to hypercarry her in low elo. I can always pull the KDAs, and can always be the best performer on a team.... but I've generally been struggling recently to control the games.

And....... then I changed my runes. I've been running Sorcery/Domination or Domination/Sorcery because of Ravenous Hunter, possibly Cheap Shot, etc.

I could pull the duels, and do okay. But when the game was 1v5 and my team paper tigers who left me in a 1v4 or 1v5 chase all game, I couldn't do much about it.

Meta advice suggests Sorcery/Inspiration.

Tried it.

Somehow, that little 5% CDR and Magic boots make all the difference. You heal more, and actually have a game influence.

The question is..... why? Has her game actually been so throttled toward overlaying W's that she needs that 5% CDR to actually have a greater influence? She also heals more on Inspiration because of it.

It feels like to be able to win her, you need to basically follow one cookie cutter rune build, or your toxic teams will just throw you in a gutter.

Any thoughts?

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Zertryx1 votes

you should try Glacial augment + Spooky ghost / hextech build, the kiting / slowing constantly is pretty great

Illabethe1 votes

That's generally a Ahri thing, and has a relatively limited impact on Morgana compared to Aery. Morgana just doesn't have reliable auto attacks to really make it super viable except when Ghosts are off cooldown.

I do believe in Nimbus Cloak though.

Zertryx1 votes

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That's generally a Ahri thing, and has a relatively limited impact on Morgana compared to Aery. Morgana just doesn't have reliable auto attacks to really make it super viable except when Ghosts are off cooldown.

I do believe in Nimbus Cloak though.

Glacial isnt really taken for the "Auto attack" portion, its ment for the additional benifit to the activations of the items themselves, which is one reason i use it on Velkoz as well because it gives really good kite potential and with morg now that her ult gives move speed towards enemys + the glacial actives it really makes it amazing to lock down a straggler for your team.

Chembaron Yamada1 votes

In general, it seems that Inspiration is overperforming as a secondary rune tree, stated by Riot. They are going to nerf the minor runes for it as well as buffing the minor runes of other trees to make them more appealing.

Maybe this will change something, maybe not, time will tell.

LordGeovanni1 votes

i wonder why they reworked her w to not have a cooldown but didnt increase her q cooldown and lower its root duration. so she can still chain q while her w is perma up all game not just late game. fk me for liking melee fighters right.

Illabethe1 votes

That's REALLY a misrepresentation....

Her Q is not chainable, even at max cooldown. It is potentially deadly if you don't build tenacity.

W takes literally its full duration to reset + 1.3 seconds early game versus 1 eligible target for the 5% (Champ or Cannon minion or Large monster). The only time W truly overlaps is when Morgana's team has lost their base, and multiple Siege minions are barreling down on a base. She can have 3-4 Large minions in her pool then. That resets it on steroids. Otherwise, she has no way to accomplish that vs champions.... Maybe 1-2 in a skirmish with R.....

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