To all you morde "mains"

Joe Dredd·Oct 16, 2015·6 votes·568 views

I don't think the morde rework sucks. No one likes having their main changed. End of story. But morde's kit never has and never will reflect metal when the most defining part of his kit, which is his ult, has absolutely nothing to do with metal. Like if you blindly asked someone "There is a skill that lets you mark a champion and if they die you control their soul for a while. Who does it belong to? And the choices were the master of metal and the lord of death 100% of people would say the latter.

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Big LincolnOct 16, 20155 votes

you can't list just 1 ability and then say "this is their theme, end of story"

the newest champion, kindred's ult -- if I listed out what it does and then asked if this spell belongs to "The Eternal Hunters" or "The Starchild," who would you pick?

mordekaiser had both elements to his theme.

Joe DreddOct 16, 20152 votes

It's not directly tied down to either name. Morde ult is.

DreadlocksOct 16, 20155 votes

Easy for you to say when its not your main.

Joe DreddOct 16, 20152 votes

My main is rengar. He was also reworked in may 2014.

DreadlocksOct 16, 20153 votes

And he's still basically the same thing. Morde has moved lanes, had his Q and W changed almost completely. And now to make things even worse they give him a stupid ass "title" if you will.

Joe DreddOct 16, 20152 votes

He isn't though. They introduced ferocity abilities scaling by level removed critting on bonus damage on q removed q on tower removed q att speed removed bola point and click changed his ult mechanics REMOVED bonetooth as an item

He's no longer nearly as strong as he was in splitpushing and for the most part can only jungle effectively.

DreadlocksOct 16, 20152 votes

So you think his rework was more drastic than mordes in terms of gameplay? Psh.

Joe DreddOct 17, 20151 votes

Where did I say that? Please quote

DreadlocksOct 17, 20153 votes

Why are you bringing up rengar's rework then? You brought it up as if it had something to do with Mordekaiser.

Joe DreddOct 17, 20151 votes

Because you're acting like I haven't experienced my main getting reworked before.

DreadlocksOct 17, 20153 votes

But rengar's rework didnt affect his gameplay to the lvl of mordes. Thats my point.

Joe DreddOct 17, 20151 votes

Either way, I feel like you don't really understand Riot's intentions. When you keep playing this game and get better you start to understand. When rengar was first rework I was mad too. I didn't want him to change. I wanted a revert. BUT, with what I know now about this game I'm happy they reworked rengar. Old rengar was hella cancerous. And while im not commenting of current morde, going back to old morde would definitely be a step in the wrong direction.

DreadlocksOct 17, 20152 votes

See now you are talking some sense! I agree going back to old Morde would be the wrong direction as well, but you see, with Rengar they went in a GOOD direction. They created a better interaction between Rengar and other champions. With the Morde rework, they literally went from bad to worse.

JbelsOct 16, 20151 votes

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He isn't though. They introduced ferocity abilities scaling by level removed critting on bonus damage on q removed q on tower removed q att speed removed bola point and click changed his ult mechanics REMOVED bonetooth as an item

He's no longer nearly as strong as he was in splitpushing and for the most part can only jungle effectively.

Doesn't change the fact that at the end of the day, he's still doing what he was doing before. Assassinating targets by jumping on them out of stealth and bursting them down

Joe DreddOct 17, 20152 votes

Morde basically does the same thing. Same e same ult, q still chunks. boo fucking hoo

SzunrayOct 17, 20151 votes

Morde is doing the same exact thing he was doing before.

He's walking into teamfights, ulting the carry, and then beating ass at close range.

Stars ShaperOct 16, 20151 votes

He has always been a mixture of death and metal. Pain is his domain and he can perpetrate it even after death by enslaving your should and pain is manifested using metal magic while you are still alive.

JbelsOct 16, 20151 votes

You can like Morde's kit all you want, that doesn't stop it from being inexcusably broken -Jbels, Morde Main

StaconaOct 16, 20151 votes

~~Bring your child to work day~~ "So little Jimmy what would like to see for a Mordekaiser rework" ... little Jimmy: "wou should make him dweal a twon of wamage dat goes cwunk! and wou should gife him a HUUUGE ghost dwagon, because its cool!" Rioter: "Sounds good, let's do that!"

And so the random broken ghost dragon has been created, makes zero sense whatsoever to be on Mordekaiser, but little Jimmy said it would be cool so it was implemented despite being insanely overpowered and broken, but better nerf Mordekaiser who is underpowered- that ghost dragon has nothing to do with anything at all...

67chromeOct 16, 20151 votes

Like if you blindly asked someone "There is a skill that lets you mark a champion and if they die you control their soul for a while. Who does it belong to? And the choices were the master of metal and the lord of death 100% of people would say the latter.

That has more to do with offensive skills designed to kill things being under the wide umbrella of the incredibly vague word death than anything else. Teddy bear of death. Fire of burning death. bullets of death. dunkmaster of death. Death fits pretty much any skill that does damage.

Also, Mordekaiser's ultimate inflicting pain and damnation is still fairly Heavy Metal (along with his physical appearance).

More importantly though - a title should say something about a champion that's unique and worth pointing out. Mordekaiser is a master of Heavy Metal with a lot of heavy metal themes, which makes his master of metal title at least interesting.

Master of Death tells us absolutely nothing about the champion, due in large part to the aforementioned vagueness of Death as it pertains to a game where you're trying to kill one-another. Mordekaiser's name also translates into Death King, so calling him the death master master of death is pretty redundant and derppy.