This rework is complete garbage. Riot is trying a crazy experiment that probably wont work, shoehorning him into a duo bot lane. Then they throw a fancy dragon passive in to get everyone who doesn't play morde hyped about morde.
Nerfs across the board, all of his abilities, base stats, ability range, everything. But everyone sees the dragon and goes "WOW COOL A DRAGON I WANT A DRAGON".
If this goes through he's going to be extremely, disgustingly popular the first week as everyone and their dog fights over the Morde pick because they want to experience the gimmicky as hell novelty of controlling a dragon for a few seconds. Then afterwards his popularity is going to plummet to rock bottom as everyone stops playing him because he's gutted into obscurity. This is a rework that nobobdy who plays Mordekaiser actually wants
35 base damage on his E at rank one, maxing out at 155? No more AOE on his Q, you have to auto multiple times to deal full damage? Ulti range nerf? W can't be used unless someone is standing around babysitting you?
All this while keeping the same shit scaling he has right now?
Someone kill me