@Riot ; The Mordekaiser Rework, From a 5+ year Veteran with 1k+ Morde Games

Remade because it was deleted from Champion Concepts section.

Hey Riot! I appreciate you reading this. I'll try to keep it as short as possible.

First off, Mordekaiser is my favorite champion in the League of Legends. I am against the concept of a rework. While he may be unpopular, he is definitely not underpowered. However, it seems as though how strong or weak he is is not playing a factor in whether or not you will be changing/reworking him, but rather his lack of identity.

It is funny that he would be changed because of a perceived lack of identity though, because he is arguably the most unique champion in this whole entire game. His ult is in a class of its own, the way his passive works, and how his kit interacts with it in general is all not only unique to this game but to the whole MOBA genre as a whole. I want to preserve this identity as much as possible.

I see a lot of those proposed reworks, various players asking for CC and whatnot, but as someone with well over a thousand Mordekaiser games under his belt, what would Morde have to give up for CC? He needs his damage in order to build his shield, but he needs tankiness in order for his shield to be strong. It is this balance of power which causes Mordekaiser to be so balanced despite having such an amazing/fun passive and one of the largest game-impacting ultimates. I don't want to see this balance of power tweaked. I remember the glory days of Mordekaiser before Season 1 when he was an indestructible being that raised havoc across the Summoner's Rift, before he became this AP thing he is today. I don't want to see that happen again.

I am very happy with the current Mordekaiser, and if things change with him in a way that is too drastic/unfavorable I may have to walk away from the game because I don't know if I'll be able to find in enjoyable anymore. You see, many of the champions that I enjoyed are actually the ones that have received reworks, and the reworks have been hit and miss. However, even if they had all been successful, I ask that this one champion please be preserved for us veterans of the community, and selfish me. I feel like with each change a part of their identity is lost, and eventually its like learning an entirely new champion. Which is fine, but Mordekaiser is a true gem not only to LoL but to MOBAs as a whole. Mordekaiser es #1 right? huehuehue. Despite how unpopular he is currently, reworking/changing the way he builds his passive won't guarantee him becoming more popular. He has over a 50% win rate in normals and ranked, and I understand win rates are a deceiving statistic, but if he isn't broken why fix it?

Also, his perceived "lack of tankiness" is not a flaw in the champion, but in the way people build the champion. If you examine the most popular items/build paths on Mordekaiser, people just prefer to build him AP. I personally prefer building him tank. That is another thing special about Mordekaiser, all the different ways you can build and succeed with the champion.

Anyways, thanks big time for reading this Riot, hopefully this means something. If you guys still must rework him I would like it if I could help come up with ideas, I wasn't a fan at all of the proposed changes made that had his shield scale off of his max life %.

http://lol.arcana-gaming.com/en/Article/1930/overview-of-mordekaisers-rework

I would also like to note, I feel as though his perceived lack of counterplay from E is more than made up for by his lack of mobility and inability to capitalize on the enemy's mistakes via a gap closer.

I am becoming afraid of becoming attached to champions due to your recent string of reworks/overhauls of kits. I am particularly fond of old-school 2009-2010 champions because those were the guys they give me so much nostalgia from when I first started playing the game. Its just sad seeing them go, especially in this case as he has been my main for years and he isn't hurting in the win rate category.