This Mordekaiser "rework" is an abomination

Pengrin·8/24/2015, 9:22:25 PM·36 votes·2,835 views

As an old ass veteran who has played this game since 2010, this Morde rework is the worst thing I have ever seen happen to this game. Even worse than the release of Kalista in my eyes.

Personally, I have taken time off on the game because of the frustration each patch gives me. This does not help at all.

Mordekaiser, marveled as one of League of Legend's most creative Champions in its earliest stages of the game, has been ruined. He lost all of his identity, he lost all of his power, he lost his true strengths in lane. For what? For a buff?

No, I say it is for CertainlyT's entertainment.

This guy has created disgusting champions like Thresh and Yasuo. Kalista was personally the last straw pulled out of the cup for me. I could not believe an abomination like her could have been released. All my friends who have also played this game for years on years also think all of his champions are pure crap in terms of balance, nearly all of them quit, only the ones who spent thousands still play this game. No matter how weak their numbers are, CertainlyT's champions seem to be viable anyway.

CertainlyT's champions are even more stupid than release Vlad who can literally walk into lane and ult a Teemo and the Teemo would die. At least he was nerfed, same with Xin Zhao and LeBlanc close to their releases.

But since this guy "touched up" an old champion that I have known and loved since I have started, I just felt like I had to say something.

I loved what Riot did to champions like Garen and Ashe: they keep their identity while buffing them, tweaked their skills to maintain that identity, and they do not lose anything in the process.

Mordekaiser literally lost everything. CertainlyT just sneezed out his old skills into "newer" ones that do not help out the problems he had previously at all. The funnier part is that CertainlyT did not even TRY to take care of his mobility issues which was basically the only reason why he has been weak, instead he enhances his melee strength (his Q of all things) and pushes everything else aside.

The absolute worst part is that CertainlyT gave 0 fucks of what anyone said. He did not give any reason to what he did to Mordekaiser. He did not even try to defend himself. It is as if he knows he has done something wrong and said "fuck it, we're doing it live". In my eyes, this shows no effort and that he thinks he has the "divine right" to make champions, no one else can have a say at all.

I really do hope that Riot does something around reverting this rework to the old state of Mordekaiser, then taking care of some mobility issues he has in a more sensible way, rather than shoving and forcing him to go bot lane like a paper bag.

28 Comments

Matezoide8/24/2015, 9:27:30 PM10 votes

I really dont see how an ability that is instant death on a champion whose main gimmick is ''Become a ball of stats by out-leveling the enemy ADC and close before the 25 minutes mark. Also abuse a win-more mechanic with the Dragon!'' is healthy at all.

Not even talking about his balance or anything. I legitimately do not believe new Mordekaiser can be properly balanced for bot lane. He will always be broken or completely useless.

luckmallory8/24/2015, 9:26:35 PM4 votes

To be fair he has the highest win percentage of any ADC in the game right now. So just because you dont like what they did to him doesn't mea nthey ruined him. He is mutilating bot lanes right now

Chespin20138/25/2015, 7:37:19 AM4 votes

Riot hears our concerns, Riot doesn't care. They didn't listen to us about many things like Cassiopeia Fiddlesticks Kassadin Mordekaiser Ryze Teemo Twitch Veigar Zilean item 3718 item 3709 item 3724item 3707 . It's always the same excuse that Riot knows best and they are gonna do what the hell want without any consideration from others.

Ztevano8/25/2015, 12:10:01 AM2 votes

I can not agree more, it shows an absolute disconnect from the integrity of what defines each champion and everything that is the game. Whats worse is that no one seems to mention that all his animations are gone. His Q would echo out little maces, his W would show a twirling mass of metal, his E would show maces popping up from the ground, ALL OF THAT IS GONE. He's slower than ever, less hp than ever, just disgusting all around, how an AP MAGE is turned upside down into some crappy champ with no style or animations, BUT with an apparently op Q, who cares!

ZyniX8/25/2015, 4:51:59 PM2 votes

Q was definitely his weakest ability before but it still had a rewarding feeling when you could bounce it's damage off a minion to hit someone or isolate someone like khazix. W had good offensive and defensive uses and helped give him his wave pushing with E. Also E was still able to generate shields like today but required a little work to generate enough and actually did damage. Now Q is only just retarded and gimps everything else in his kit for it's power including morde's play style. W requires you to have a baby sitter and E doesn't even feel good because of the crappy damage and rapid shield decay rate. They basically took the least favorite skill of morde players and forced them to use it while shitting on everything else and threw on a dragon to try to shut us up.

Mordepool8/25/2015, 6:13:04 PM2 votes

So many threads like this. Need more

Jungle Lux God8/25/2015, 6:59:12 PM2 votes

The only identities that Mordekaiser lost were his solo laning capabilities and the ability to mindlessly push the wave early on. The former was replaced by a unique duo lane identity and the latter needed to be removed for game health purposes. Other than that, his main identities (immobile, having no CC, having a large shield that becomes core to his gameplay, stealing a target's soul to use against his foes) either remained intact or expanded on them to improve his gameplay in other ways.

That's not to say that the Mordekaiser rework was good. The Mordekaiser rework mostly kept his identity intact, but it has other severe problems that leave him far too volatile a pick.

This was the second time CertainlyT has had the chance to make a champion reliant on a partner to succeed, and this is the second time he made an abomination of a champion in this reworked Mordekaiser.

Count Buffon8/24/2015, 9:51:48 PM2 votes

Rito change meta nao, hurr durr. "Strategic Diversity" on our terms.

Alphadef8/25/2015, 1:51:00 PM2 votes

They should really just get 2 or 3 People constantly checking his champion work. That and he should stick to making instead of remaking

MadManApocalypse8/24/2015, 9:28:46 PM1 votes

I still jungle and play my morde top and mid. Don't go bot and he is even more unbalanced.

DJ Di08/24/2015, 10:17:26 PM1 votes

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Mordekaiser, marveled as one of League of Legend's most creative Champions in its** earliest stages of the game**, has been ruined. He lost all of his identity, he lost all of his power, he lost his true strengths in lane. For what? For a buff?

..That doesn't really say much when Old Riot thought AP Yi was a good idea.

Vhalthoria8/26/2015, 11:31:52 PM1 votes

There's really no point in trying to explain to you if you have never played this champion for enough before rework to realize how hard he was downgraded completely into an inferior version than previous. I'll leave it there.

Bastard Chief8/25/2015, 4:37:31 PM1 votes

Far as I know, Mord sucked, never felt he was a good champion to be picked out of the countless other better lane champions. Don't hate, just my opinion. Besides, I never really saw him picked much anyways. The new Mord sucks too, so it's not like you guys lost out.

I'm curious tho, what was his old win percentage the last few years? It can't be that high compared to the others.

MasqureMan8/26/2015, 5:08:56 AM1 votes

"Morde literally lost everything"

Except games, apparently? Because he wrecks. Why is that if he "lost everything"? Could it be because you guys have your bias bare for the world to see and can't say one positive thing about Morde to save your life.

Karma players make a good point. Morde kept all of his skills at a conceptual level. All of you guys who say he no longer "feels like Morde" are liars. His Q is still melee and destroy people, his W is stll AOE survival and utility, his E is still charge my shield and poke/waveclear, and his R is the same with a dragon ghost attached.

I'm tired of you guys. There are the Morde players who make coherent, fair post to make their points, and there are these guys who just talk negatively to try and get what they want while ignoring what's around them.

Selegun8/24/2015, 9:39:30 PM1 votes

May I ask then what made the champion worthy of the name Mordekaiser before this rework? What drew you to the champion and made him fun for you?