My take on Morde, The potential Rylai's changes, and more...

I'm fine with everyone worrying about Morde's playability (specially MM and Rightfully so), as he does seem rather in a weird spot to say the least, and with these potential Rylai's changes incoming, it's probably gonna make having to change Morde's kit a priority again. (I think Morde's gonna be the new Ryze when it comes to reworks lol)

Here's what I know as of right now:

Rito plans on changing Rylai's and Ghostblade (the latter I don't really care lol I don't really play champs who use it) next season, and the situation is that Riot doesn't know if they either want to

A: Give it more AP/CDR and lower/eliminate the health.

B: Give it more Health and lower the AP and/or the AoE slow

and I'm seeing this both ways as good/bad. Lemme explain.

Option A will allow burst/DPS mages to get more kill potential out of the item if it gets some added CDR, and to be completely honest I would prefer it as a Karthus main since I like to play a bit of a more "Glass Cannon" set-up and secure kills with the ult etc. HOWEVER I can also see this as a bad thing because the AP Assassins would be all up in this item and I'd rather not have a Kassadin/LeBlanc/Kat/Ekko etc to have that kind of power.

Option B will allow Tank Mages/Battlemages to keep the sustain and act more of a Utility item EVEN IF the AoE slow is reduced. This item will also (as Malicious Metal has stated in his thread) help secure itself as a proper core item on Morde and keep him playable. On the other hand, if the Health is buffed I fear it'll be the rise of "Tankko" (Tank Ekko) again and I know Riot's trying to put an end to that already.

Now I've heard suggestions to split this item into 2 and I've come up with something. Make the Original Crystal Scepter 700 Health and 50 AP, but maybe eliminate the Single Target Slow. This'll make it so BattleMages and AP Tanks can make good use of it while Squishy burst Mages (Annie, Veigar, etc) can't abuse it to broken levels

Next, make a new item, that is 3000g, 100 AP, 20% CDR, 400 Mana, and 40 Armor (Builds out of Glacial Shroud, Fiendish Codex, and Amp Tome) and make it so spells apply the Grounded debuff for .2 - 1 second (Based on Champion Level) and then make it so the Grounded debuff can't stack (like how slows are mostly so Cass can't abuse this item to high heaven lol). This way it can serve as an alternative to Morellos only it doesn't give back mana, it doesn't do grevious wounds, it costs more, but it gives a bit of an answer to dash-happy champs, (lookin at you Yasuo...) which I feel tbh is what Rylai's was originally supposed to try to do maybe.