It's the least offensive thing in her kit. When's the last time you saw somebody get all pissy about her W? It's not what makes her annoying, or obnoxious to play against. You're only hurting mid lane Morg. And with all the mobility floating around this day and age, mid Morg wasn't exactly broken.
If I were them, I'd have done the opposite. Nerf the duration of her Q or E and buff the crap out of her W. But that's just me.
If anything, this exposes the ability to push Morg's out of mid lane during early level trades, since she'll have to auto minions several times up through W rank 3 (or wait for the caster minions to take some damage before dropping the W, since starting with 41AP @ level 1 from runes + Doran Ring leaves casters with ~10 hp at rank 3 W). It will be interesting to see what kind of win rates Morg will have in top, mid and bot after this happens, and if players can adapt to being a slightly more active and mobile Morg until after their first back.
For support Morg, I think the issue was more the fact the damage scaled really well when an all in happens level 6. Flash, ult, ignite, hit with a Q and then drop the W. It does rather significant damage at that point, especially when coupled with a teammate attacking. It'll still bring in the gold as easy as ever, just if you want to all in bot now, I hope you've autoed once or twice more before committing to the all-in.
Edit: removed jungle, replaced with bot. -_-.
riot hates immobile champions
reason why morgana and annie are getting nerfed for being able to challenge the mobility meta
Besides the fact that her W is so easy to avoid, and even a maxed Q will only guarantee half of the Ws damage goes off, it has a huge mana cost. I seriously don't understand why they'd nerf anything about morgana. She has enormous cooldowns and her Q is one of if not the slowest moving skillshot in the game and it can't move through minions. She burns through mana and her kit is clunky but balanced. By clunky I mean she has to land Q to make her W do anything at all, and she has to be in melee range for her ult to work.
Absolutely unworthy of a nerf.
is probably partially the reason. It's stupid easy to proc the passive on it. Morgana should probably be considered for a rework due to a dated kit.
I think the idea is 'nerf her weaknesses and keep her strengths'. So they don't want her to be great at waveclear, but they want her to keep her single target CC and anti-CC capability.
