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VGU: Mordekaiser's Uninteractive W and How to Fix It!

DaCurtis·5/31/2019, 1:10:11 AM·6 votes·1,872 views

Mordekaiser's rework is looking amazing. As a one of the few people who main Mordekaiser, I really appreciate the work done on him, the visuals and gameplay looks amazing. That being said there are things to improve, and one of the biggest ones at the moment is his W - Indestructible.

Mordekaiser's new W ability Indestructible seems to be nothing more than a glorified 30% max shield.. With the condition you have to charge it. The gameplay loop of the ability seems to be to just wait for the shield to charge, pop W, pop it again, and heal using it as a sustain ability. Otherwise the other loop is to just use it as a 30%maxhp shield for combat, but even then it's not good a good shield option because it decays. The 14 seconds cd between uses is a killer too. It's quite a shame seeing Mordekaiser's shield reduce to this considering it was one of his fun mechanics. Right not it's just too uninteractive.

So a solution to this problem is to make the shield behave in a way that current Morde's Iron Man behaves! https://imgur.com/a450Yl7 The goal here is to make the active a bit more engaging. So when Mordekaier activates W, he gets the shield he stored, and during 4 seconds, he can keep adding onto the shield as deals damage. You can then pop it for heal if you think you need to during the ability, otherwise when the duration of the W ends, the shield will pop the heal Mordekaiser automatically. During the active however, you'll only receive shields from damage dealt not taken. This would make it so he doesn't get a 4 second damage reduction from the damage taken portion of the passive.

Honestly that would make it very fun to play, and the high CD on W would feel warranted.

;And for speculation that changing his W to this would bring back issues with current Mordekaiser - it wouldn't. Considering current Mordekaisers shield lasts forever, and this idea wouldn't and lasts for say - 4 seconds - it would make it very healthy.

11 Comments

ChrisPixel5/31/2019, 3:45:15 AM4 votes

Its really sad to see how most people are embracing the change to his shield mechanic without considering the fact it changes the feel of the champion completely. The rework was supposed to update his kit without alienating his players, like it happened with Aatrox, but it seems all they did was relocating all his power to the damage he deals and nothing to his sustain in combat. Mordekaiser should be encouraged to be agressive to stay alive even when he is outnumbered. A good idea for his W is that it should sinergize with his passive like the old W did. The shield would only come out for as long as you can mantain your passive on and the active of W could also make your passive burst and heal you for the remaining shield and the amount of enemy champions hit by the burst. Less annoying lane sustain and more fight survivability.

Selegun5/31/2019, 1:55:08 AM2 votes

I cant say I'm seeing the same problem you are with his new W. I personally like that his shield is now an active that requires a tad bit of skill to use in a fight rather than his current 'bleeding bubble' shield he uses now since you have very little say or sway in how that thing gets used.

Kelg5/31/2019, 1:47:39 AM1 votes

His old shield passive was broken, it needed to go, and bringing it back as an active would be just as broken with this new kit.