Does Riot hate Mordekaiser ? (or his player base)

Deriam··3 votes·968 views

some months ago mordekaise had a slight rework, the changes were originly more severe but they did listen to the community and didnt gut him

now that we have had time get used to new morde they are making new changes

as soon as I saw mordekaiser mentioned I was struck with fear, didnt initly want to even read what they were gonna do

so they added dragon ghost, seems cool enough :)

but again they want to change his passive, we didnt like the change last time and I dont like it now either, it suggest building him tanky but we been over this before he cant be built tanky that would just make him a worse version of other champions that are able to be ap tanks, quite the opposite of what they wanted to do, putting champions in the same category with one being superior

his q was changed quite a lot, it sounds intresting and strong if used to full potential, but in bot lane that wouldnt be the case

and he is lackluster in solo lane now that he cant cast w, being a complete different spell not even giving armor, I used to love this spell cast it on a siege minion and just hit away on enemy turret when your opponent waste their time roaming

his damage on e was nerfed, not to much so its what Im least complaining on

his ulti is only good for dragon now, as far as champions concerned they nerfed mordes movespeed, range on ulti and its damage. mordes ulti at level 6 alreeady was weak enough to be countered by a health potion, and previosly when mid-late game came and you wanted to ulti adc you used it at max range 80% of the time, meaning now you wont be able to use it

mordes burst is also weakened now that q requires 3 aa to deal max damage, compare it to live q-flash-aa-e-r-ignite

as a last point introducing full exp on morde if he manage to last hit sounds nice but should be irrelevant in a smart lane, either he will be punished for taking minions with aa's or morde will farm with his e and push the lane, once his enemies are able to freeze morde willl suddenly not get any gold or exp advantage

3 Comments

Cowgirl Ed1 votes

No, they just don't give a shit if the champion is not cool and flashy (see recent buffs to Lissandra, Lee Sin, Zed, etc. )

InvalidGuest1 votes

I have 35k champion mastery points on Morde right now. I'm fine with champion gameplay reworks (really) but I really don't like how they are changing Morde from a Solo laner to an "ADC" (Not an Attack damage carry but they said he would fill the role of an ADC in bot).

Darius and Garen are still bruiser top laners. Skarner is still a Jungler. Fiora is still a fighting/carry top laner. Ryze is still a top lane mage. GP is still a top laner and MF is still an ADC.

I just don't know why they want to make Morde a duo laner. It's so random.

I'd rather he stay as a solo laning mage. Playing him bot as a carry would just be too weird.

Sluiceway1 votes

While I am not sure if Mordekaiser is the right choice for this, I think it is long overdue that other champ roles besides marksmen found a place in bot lane. I have though this even more necessary since other roles have become more flexible (Nautilus, for example, being a flex support/jungle/top, or some marksmen being used in mid, and mid laners like Fizz being picked in top and jungle), we should see bot lane carries being able to flex pick things that supposedly belong elsewhere.

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