Morde is the perfect example of Riot's flawed design philosophy

At some point Riot decided to design to fit a meta instead of letting the meta develop naturally after good design.

The meta only existed after players picked up a fun game and found what worked best. It was fun finding that out, and exploring interesting champions who held the possibility of doing really cool things. The meta wasnt made by Riot, it was made by the community using Riots awesome creation.

However, now Riot designs according to whatever meta they want to promote - from champions to items.

Morde was left as unsatisfying and uninteresting but instead of making morde interesting and fun to play and letting the community find a place for him, Riot mildly altered some of his abilities and shoved him into the "adc" position. He plays pretty much the same, with nearly the same interactions. He is no more interesting than he was (except maybe the dragon ghost) and still just runs at you and if you stay there, you die. **Riot didnt redesign morde to be fun, interesting and cool, they designed him to fit somewhere into their meta and to be strong. ** So what do we have? We have an overtuned "ADC" morde that is still boring and uninteractive but who is going to get played because hes strong and works.

Supports get pigeon holed into support only because Riot feels the need to balance around the meta. So when they nerf "support" champs that go to solo lanes but arent top tier supports, they just simply dont get played very often (im looking at you karma). If the community wants karma mid, than ffs, let it be. Balance her if shes too strong, but don't tell us what gets to be meta.

This doesn't make a fun game.

At this point Riot releases a champ, tells me where he needs to go, what he needs to buy, and what his role needs to be. If i find success doing anything else, it will get nerfed. So why am i even playing if its already decided what i have to do before hand? Do you guys want to come to my house and push the buttons for me as well?

tl;dr Riot - get back your soul and start designing champions, items, and the game based on what is fun, interesting, and exciting and let the community figure out the meta, because actually, that's half the fun.