What happened to morello ?

MOuHahaHAhahaaaa·Jun 15, 2018·21 votes·14,420 views

Morello is without a doubt the best guy that worked for Riot.

this guy is a legend :

''as a Lead Designer of League of Legends. He previously worked for Microsoft and ArenaNet.''

''His gaming background spans mostly competitive multiplayer games, including tournament play in Guild Wars, Natural Selection, Battlefield 1942 and Tekken Tag Tournament. ''

He even had his morellomonicon.

This guy represents by himself a big reason of lol success....

My question is :

Is he working on others riot's project ?

Or did he just left riot games...

If the game philosophy changed a lot its because he is not working on lol anymore....

People didn't like him because he used to nerf a lot characters.

However since he left the lol team this game began to loose its magic.

I hope riot will release the new project soon allowing the BIG guys to work on lol again...

36 Comments

nelogisJun 15, 201829 votes

He may not have known what was good for the game... but he for sure as hell knew what was bad for it.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaaJun 15, 201814 votes

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Hey may not have known what was good for the game... but he for sure as hell knew what was bad for it.

Are you serious ? He was the only guy praisimg nerfs. Just look how the game is doing since he left...

nelogisJun 15, 201810 votes

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Are you serious ? He was the only guy praisimg nerfs. Just look how the game is doing since he left...

Yes since he knew buffing everything isn't good for the game.

Or introducing a lot of true damage since that creates a heavy HP meta where resistances become less valuable.

Or making everything a spam fest with everyone running around with 40% CDR since that makes playing immobile melee champs that aren't tanks really frustrating. Which lead to Irelia, Camille and now Aatrox having a lot more dashes / stuns so getting and sticking onto a target is easier.

Or introducing flashy stuff like the Harold which reduces game time which, when done too often, obliterates any balancing done to a champion when it comes to powercurve relative to gametime. Which leads to stuff like Crit ADCs scaling way too fast when trying to bring them back to 50% WR.

Or maybe not getting sniped for 70% of your HP by a single ability out of fog of war because that is just frustrating and is not needed by any means in the game Nidalee Varus

"whops"

Zoe

There hasn't been a lot of "innovative" stuff while he was in charge because he said "no" to a lot of things since he knew it wasn't good for the game. He knew what was good for the game by knowing what wasn't good for it in that sense but we haven't seen completely new stuff like Ivern and such while he was in charge since he didn't really know what could be a fresh addition to the game that doesn't hurt it at the same time.

That was his weakness

Coming back to your question, I have absolutely no idea what he is doing at the moment

Pika FoxJun 15, 20181 votes

New aatrox has near 0 mobility. His E is barely a dash and is more of a slight change to land Q.

nelogisJun 15, 20182 votes

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New aatrox has near 0 mobility. His E is barely a dash and is more of a slight change to land Q.

Which lead to Irelia, Camille and now Aatrox having a lot more dashes / stuns so getting and sticking onto a target is easier

He has a shit load of more CC tho which makes it easier to stick to a target like I said.

Besides that what is the cooldown on his E? If it's short enough like 2 seconds then it's more or less like a weaker Riven type mobility which isn't "near 0 mobility" at all.

Pika FoxJun 15, 20183 votes

10-20s per charge iirc. Its a long ass time. Longer than Q, which was like 10sish.

nelogisJun 15, 20181 votes

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10-20s per charge iirc. Its a long ass time. Longer than Q, which was like 10sish.

hmm, thats like 6 seconds with CDR capped that's so shit since he can't actually walk while using Q's. Aight I guess his mobility is shit. So just his sticking power went up then.

This guy is going to be something else im tellin ya.

Pika FoxJun 15, 20181 votes

He can move while reviving now at least. But it IS his ultimate now, so it makes sense ittd be stronger.

Succubús GFJun 15, 20181 votes

at full build nidalee max spear does maybe 1k damage. And that is REALLY late game. and also a very skinny skillshot, and the entire start for her to do anything. Please don't lump up champions that are in a bad spot with "op snipes"

HeimerLmaoJun 15, 20183 votes

He is talking about the game's past. Not now.

Succubús GFJun 16, 20181 votes

Ah are you sure? Zoe is fairly new so i assumed current complaints.

3TWarriorJun 16, 20181 votes

she's been nerfed periodically. It used to have a very high ramp up and value where she could achieve between 2000 and 3000 damage before magic resist on a single Q of 6 second CD

AirKingNeoJun 16, 20181 votes

League doesn't have a lot of true damage.

No one builds Infinity Edge. Conqueror is underperforming and picking Ornn/Cho'Gath/Singed is better.

SomeOneButNoOneMar 3, 20192 votes

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Are you serious ? He was the only guy praisimg nerfs. Just look how the game is doing since he left...

And on his watch attrocities like Akali, Irelia, Zoe, etc. Never even saw the light of day. The game is doing trash ever since he left, with a declining populace, and increased frustration. It's more annoying to play league of legends, then study programming at this point.

JamareeJun 15, 201823 votes

You know what the best part about these "I want Morello back on balance team post." He was constantly called an idiot and told he wasn't know what he was talking about, which I just find funny.

D357R0Y3RJun 15, 20182 votes

idk if you remember when he shittakled healers in TF2 to prove his point about healers being bad in general in games

i was so done http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2598178&page=2

JamareeJun 15, 20184 votes

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idk if you remember when he shittakled healers in TF2 to prove his point about healers being bad in general in games

i was so done http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2598178&page=2

And from that point on, they just got more and more power until we got to the point where champions like Soraka, Janna, and Lulu were getting obscene with their ability to keep people alive with it all coming to head at the support meta of season 6.

D357R0Y3RJun 15, 20184 votes

Morello's problem was not soraka/healers/enchanters keeping people alive in fights

his problem was old soraka negating any poke and any advance from sieging by constantly giving herself mana and healing her allies constantly then they proceded to rework her and make her losing hp everytime she heals to prevent that

but his argument about TF2 was so bullshit, "they give inelegant answers to problems that do not exist" what the actual fuck, medics in TF2 ARE THE REASON the game was actually fun, they were not created to answer to problems, they were createde to bring more strategy and fun to the game because you needed to protect your medic from the enemies/enemies needed to kill the medic

nelogisJun 15, 20182 votes

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Morello's problem was not soraka/healers/enchanters keeping people alive in fights

his problem was old soraka negating any poke and any advance from sieging by constantly giving herself mana and healing her allies constantly then they proceded to rework her and make her losing hp everytime she heals to prevent that

but his argument about TF2 was so bullshit, "they give inelegant answers to problems that do not exist" what the actual fuck, medics in TF2 ARE THE REASON the game was actually fun, they were not created to answer to problems, they were createde to bring more strategy and fun to the game because you needed to protect your medic from the enemies/enemies needed to kill the medic

I haven't played TF2 at all so I might be wrong here but he specifically said that Medics are a good addition to the game just that they solve a problem by creating another.

He would have rather solved the issue at the core problem, so other strategies can enable themselfes and make the game more fun instead of FORCING new strategies.

When designing the game mode and maps, there's lots of choke points and defensible positions that can easily stagnate. Tight corners with few/no alternative paths, binary attack/defense objectives and pretty over-the-top weapons mean the when skills are equal, it's easy to stalemate the game (and that's actually the defending team's job - remove progress from the aggressors). I think, simply, map and objective design is the correct solution since that's where the problem is born from.

Medics become the game in skilled play. The entire gameflow is dependent and reliant on the medic, to where killing him or not becomes the central focus. This is because the gameflow relies on them to move action when all else is equal.

Ubercharge is only counterable by another ubercharge, unless one team is significantly better than the other. Anything countered by itself creates a single path to victory.

These are good points he brings up.

GayFluffyUnicornJun 15, 20183 votes

Reading his entire comment it's basically a prophecy. Exactly that shit happened with the new guys in charge to lol.

AirKingNeoJun 16, 20182 votes

Pretty much. Creating solutions that end up making new problems is common place from the balance team right now, mostly because they never actually try to fix the problem directly, which doesn't make sense to me.

To put an example, Ezreal abuses double tear. Now, the obvious solution is just make tear unique in the % of mana AP/AD, but Riot would probably raise the price of Manamune or something and call it a day.

Z3SleeperJun 16, 20181 votes

That's your opinion :)

I personally agree with everything he said. Truly a genius who can see the big picture.

JRobin31Jun 16, 20181 votes

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idk if you remember when he shittakled healers in TF2 to prove his point about healers being bad in general in games

i was so done http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2598178&page=2

Wow, he had a personal vendetta against healers. I guess that explains why he destroyed Soraka's kit. It's not like there weren't plenty of healers in league that were not a problem for the game. Ironically... Soraka's healing? Not the true target of the target of the Soraka rework... go figure.

CytheGuyJun 15, 20187 votes

You don't know you need a hero until they leave

ModCaptainMårvelousJun 15, 20186 votes

Met Morello a few times at GDC.

Yes, he's still at Riot. Yes, he's also working on something in their R&D. Interestingly, the first time I met him in 2015 or so he was giving a talk on League's balance and the design of it.

He's an awesome guy.

Giga BaboonJun 15, 20185 votes

People expected Riot to hire someone more competent than Morello when they fired him. They didn't. People asking morello to come back aren't doing it because morello was competent, they're doing it because meddler is morello if morello's mother drank 2 beers a day for 9 months when he was in the womb.

TyroneWatermelonJun 15, 20185 votes

Assassinated by GhostCrawler and Meddler.

HyquiemJun 15, 20184 votes

His morellonomicon was changed to its sad....

OneriosJun 15, 20182 votes

Last I heard on Morello he was doing work on a secret project for Riot, presumed to be a new game, but that was a number of years ago so anything could have happened since.

Solidair3Jun 15, 20182 votes

He works in Research and Development, which means he's looking into things unrelated (probably) to league. New concepts for new games for Riot to make, etc.

He's still around.

MOuHahaHAhahaaaaJun 15, 20183 votes

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He works in Research and Development, which means he's looking into things unrelated (probably) to league. New concepts for new games for Riot to make, etc.

He's still around.

we need him so much but i understand that riot needs the best guys on their future games !

jama655Jun 15, 20181 votes

Old age caught up to good old nerf everything wizard and he no longer recalls this place

WolfeurJun 15, 20181 votes

He's on the R&D for future games from Riot.

FedoranJun 15, 20181 votes

Unfortunately morello hasn’t been with riot for awhile, as far as im aware.

Tomoe GozenJun 16, 20181 votes

Morello is in R&D. Last time i heard about him was that he was working on some new projects/directions Riot Games may branch out in, not necessarily projects that will ever see the light of day.