Let's give Dr. Mundo a new passive

darkdill·1/13/2020, 11:47:39 PM·1 votes·1,675 views

Dr. Mundo's passive is easily the worst case of "invisible power, no gameplay" in the game. While other Champions like Vladimir Garen etc. might not have particularly interesting passives, Dr. Mundo's is by far the most egregious. Bonus health regen based on his maximum health is hard to appreciate, not exciting at all, and contributes very little to Mundo's overall power; if he really wants to regen fast, he either uses his ultimate or takes advantage of item 3083 item 3065.

So let's see about giving him something new, yes? Let's not wait for a VGU, which would probably take another 2 years or more.

One idea I had for a new Mundo passive would be something like this:

"Each basic attack or Infected Cleaver hit against an enemy Champion adds a stack. Upon reaching X stacks, the stacks are consumed and the target receives Grievous Wounds for Y seconds."

This fits Mundo's sadism/pain theme, and helps carve out more of a unique "trade superiority" niche for him without requiring him to rely on health regen (something Garen does better in any event). By letting him have built-in Grievous Wounds, he becomes able to cripple an enemy's healing, but the fact that it requires him to build up stacks on an enemy allows them the chance to react to it (certainly more than against item-based GW).

But if this would be inappropriate, what do you think could be a good alternative?

9 Comments

ModThe Djinn1/13/2020, 11:52:35 PM1 votes

Bonus health regen based on his maximum health is hard to appreciate, not exciting at all, and contributes very little to Mundo's overall power;

I think this analysis neglects the fact that it's this balance of health regeneration + health costs that allow Mundo to have his Q and his low-cooldown health-spending abilities without making his ultimate nothing but a resource restore. If you strip his health regeneration you actually really hurt his laning, as he's burning health to harass but suddenly loses his best way of regaining it.

AlienPrimate1/14/2020, 12:43:30 AM1 votes

I think keeping his passive as some sort of health regen would be the way to go. Something along the lines of restore a % of the damage he takes over 10 seconds would be slightly more interesting and still have the same effect. This would work like this. He takes a 200 damage hit. Let's say the % is 10. He then regenerates 20 health over 10 seconds.

Cpt Teemo 20191/14/2020, 2:04:40 AM1 votes

I think just copying garens passive to mundo is best too tbh