The Current State of Mordekaiser.

Mordehuezer·Dec 21, 2016·13 votes·1,263 views

On Champion.gg, Mordekaiser is currently the lowest performing champion in 2 of his 3 roles and the second lowest performing champion in his main role, Top lane. I really like playing Morde, I've been a Morde OTP for years now but I feel like I'm just wasting my time playing this champ. It takes so much effort to do well with Morde and his bugs are unbearable.

I'm not gonna make a long post about this cause I know its been done a thousand times but I just wanted to say it myself, Please fix this damn champion, just do something already ffs.

18 Comments

JbelsDec 21, 20166 votes

Mordekaiser was a very...safe prospect for Riot. They change things up when they feel the game is getting stale, and the juggernaut update was that regularly scheduled change. Mordekaiser was safe to change because his playerbase was so low that the backlash would have been tiny compared to, say, Lee Sin's playerbase? Proof of this is that a Lee Sin rework was posted on PBE and was so unilaterally opposed to by it's fanbase that it was removed and never tested again. Same shit happened with Morde but it still went through anyway.

I, along with many Morde mains on PBE at the time, blasted CertainlyT again and again, but not only did he not reply, he didn't even apologize after this, his most massive fuck up of all time

MordehuezerDec 21, 20161 votes

I guess so yeah. I mean who would have thought that the champ who was givin the most broken abilities and the worst stats in the game would become a useless pile of garbage after they nerfed those broken abilities.

O Fallen ScholarDec 21, 20162 votes

I don't care about your Mordekaiser, we have more pressing matters.

AhristocatsDec 21, 20165 votes

I think i want to be able to play morde once again

so no

MordehuezerDec 21, 20164 votes

How are there more pressing matters? Mordekaiser absolutely deserves attention and it actually makes no sense how they can't be bothered to even try and fix his issues. Like come on, be vocal with the community at least give the people who care about this character some hope that change is coming eventually. Why can Riot only balance a few champs at a time when so many need it and what does it have to do with priority? Riot is a massive company now they can be bothered to test some changes on the PBE and hire a coder to figure out whats broken.

The Yetii RiderDec 22, 20162 votes

You are assuming that real charges can just go into a patch in response to recent needs or indirect changes.

The type of alteration Morde needs would come from the Gameplay Update team, not the Live Balance team. Morde doesn't need better numbers, he needs new functions for his abilities and better synergy with juggernaut itemization.

The Gameplay Update team has a backlog. Evelyn, Gallo and Warwick have all been in a worse state than Morde for a longer time than Morde. They can only work on two updates at a time.

MordehuezerDec 24, 20161 votes

Absolutely not true although I do agree he will need a Rework eventually. Morde has countless bugs that Riot should be paying attention to and though that isn't a balance matter it does have to do with patching the game, and there are tweaks that they could do to him right now to make him healthier, not just buff him so he can be OP again.

MicbranDec 21, 20162 votes

I like a lot of things about Morde, his thematic, his ult, the METAL, etc. it's sad to see him in such a bad spot.

MordehuezerDec 24, 20161 votes

I just fuckin love Morde yeah. Even without a VU I still love the way he looks and everything about his abilities.

MunchCrunchLunchDec 21, 20162 votes

numbers won't fix him without making him unhealthy. he can already one shot people with one item and his Q. he needs a mini rework at least. his W needs to go away.

MordehuezerDec 24, 20161 votes

I want them to reduce his damage but make his tank scaling better. I think the W needs a total redo yeah.

Raid Boss MordeDec 22, 20162 votes

But WHAT? Noooo... Meddler said that Mordekaiser was doing better with the Rylai's changes

MordehuezerDec 24, 20161 votes

I actually agree with this since the best users of Rylais were the ranged mages and that was a huge issue for Morde. I'll be honest I don't agree with what I said in this post anymore, I was just going through a rough patch in ranked getting camped every game and loosing over and over and it made me feel like Morde was dead. But instead of continuing with this attitude and giving up I just adjusted my play style to deal with ganks better.

DunkinNoobsDec 22, 20162 votes

Mordekaisers ranking is heavily influenced by his damage taken stats, which is artificially low because damage to shields doesn't count as damage to champions. His ranking is also heavily influenced by playrate, and his is extremely low. Do we really think Lux is the best mid laner in the game? Of course we don't, but her playrate spiked with the release of the ultimate skin and up she goes right to number 1 in the "performance" rankings.

MordehuezerDec 24, 20161 votes

This is a really good point, I didn't think of this. TBH I just made this post when I was feeling butt hurt and though Morde really does need help, he definitely isn't the worst champ in the game by far.

GigglesODec 22, 20162 votes

"we don't, we can't revert reworks" ~reverts kogmaw, leaves morde to cry.

MordehuezerDec 24, 20162 votes

I don't think they should revert the rework because it actually added a lot of really cool stuff to his kit that allowed for lots of new strats. For instance I couldn't play tank Morde without the E passive and shield HP scaling. I just wish they would clean it up, the W is a clunky mess, his stats are god awful and the bugs hurt so much.

KosomicDec 21, 20161 votes

The main issue from playing him is that he is simply out classed from everyone. There are so many more champs that can do what he can but so much more reliable.

He was my main with about 150k mastery on, switched to Tryndamere simply because he is so close to being unplayable in his current state.

They move all his power to his Q and yet give him no options to deliver any of it. Don't say the W counts, as its mostly ineffective and requires co-op to work.

No, he simply has no place in the game at this current time, as he can't be buffed or else he becomes obscenely broken so he joins Aatrox in the dog house.

Truth be told, I actually don't trust that the rework is going to represent originally Morde at all or anything resembling him. If you look at Sion now, he is a completely different champion than the original. Not going to say he is better or worse, just different. Same will happen to Morde, Its going to be a different champion that thematically fits, with Morde's name slapped on it.

While this might seem a little dark, I just think this is whats going to happen, I would like more than anything for him to be back, but I don't dare hope, else I will just be disappointed in the end.