Can mordekaiser go back to being balanced as a solo laner?
It's very clear that the morde rework was an experiment on riot's part in an attempt to diversify the bot lane meta and introduce a melee duo lane carry. There's no problem with that, however, I think we can safely call that experiment a failure. After weeks of nerfs after release, nobody even plays morde in a duo lane anymore. His role rate as an adc or support combined is less than 5%, so low that sites like champion.gg don't even record statistics for it. The community does not acknowledge him as a duo laner, and now the 95% of morde players playing him as a solo laner or jungler pay the price of reduced numbers to compensate for the passive on his w. I personally think the rework was very cool and exciting design for a previously boring and unpopular champion. I just wish they didn't then slap that passive on his w, crank his numbers super high, and sell him as a duo laner. Has riot made any statements recently on how they feel about morde as a duo laner, and whether they ever plan to return him to solo lanes?
