Is mid lane morde still viable

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People say he's garbage now but in my experience he's not much worse than he was. Not having a W sucks but really Mordekaiser only had 2 real abilities before the rework, his W just gave you a tiny bit of resistances and the damage was negligible unless you maxed W first but if you maxed W first you had no kill pressure in lane.

Mordekaiser's E got a base damage nerf but it scales with your total AD now, meaning it does just as much damage as before at level 1 and more damage than before once you pick up gunblade. His early game shield got a buff, especially his shield generation with the 15% increase on his E.

I still max E on him. It's way stronger in lane and his Q does enough damage at level 1 that you don't really need to put points into it. Unless you're in bot lane, ranking up your Q is just gimping your laning phase. Mordekaiser has more kill pressure with flash now that he has his new Q. You can 100-0 almost any mid in the game with autoing a minion twice, flash AA > E > Ult > Ignite. Other than that silly interaction, his Q is worse in every single way than before, and he doesn't have much burst potential at all without minions around and his flash up, unlike old Morde's Q which hit pretty hard no matter where you were. The only time you're going to be getting a kill with his Q outside of minion waves is when the enemy is dumb and walks into melee range and stays there until you get all 3 Q's off.

Morde already had reasons to buy hybrid items like Gunblade before the rework, but now that they also added an AD ratio to his E, pseudo-attack-speed scaling on his Q, and health scaling on his shield, he can build pretty much whatever he wants, any item in the game that doesn't involve mana, and be effective. You have access to literally the entire item pool, which gives you great diversity in your build options. For example, he is the only champion I know of that can build both a Zhonya's and a Merc Scimmy and not suffer for it.

Overall I honestly preferred the pre-rework Morde, I greatly preferred his old Q and I miss his outrageous waveclear, but this new Morde isn't nearly as bad as people make him out to be. I'm actually greatly confused as to why his winrate tanked so much in solo lanes.

I completely agree.

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People say he's garbage now but in my experience he's not much worse than he was. Not having a W sucks but really Mordekaiser only had 2 real abilities before the rework, his W just gave you a tiny bit of resistances and the damage was negligible unless you maxed W first but if you maxed W first you had no kill pressure in lane.

Mordekaiser's E got a base damage nerf but it scales with your total AD now, meaning it does just as much damage as before at level 1 and more damage than before once you pick up gunblade. His early game shield got a buff, especially his shield generation with the 15% increase on his E.

I still max E on him. It's way stronger in lane and his Q does enough damage at level 1 that you don't really need to put points into it. Unless you're in bot lane, ranking up your Q is just gimping your laning phase. Mordekaiser has more kill pressure with flash now that he has his new Q. You can 100-0 almost any mid in the game with autoing a minion twice, flash AA > E > Ult > Ignite. Other than that silly interaction, his Q is worse in every single way than before, and he doesn't have much burst potential at all without minions around and his flash up, unlike old Morde's Q which hit pretty hard no matter where you were. The only time you're going to be getting a kill with his Q outside of minion waves is when the enemy is dumb and walks into melee range and stays there until you get all 3 Q's off.

Morde already had reasons to buy hybrid items like Gunblade before the rework, but now that they also added an AD ratio to his E, pseudo-attack-speed scaling on his Q, and health scaling on his shield, he can build pretty much whatever he wants, any item in the game that doesn't involve mana, and be effective. You have access to literally the entire item pool, which gives you great diversity in your build options. For example, he is the only champion I know of that can build both a Zhonya's and a Merc Scimmy and not suffer for it.

Overall I honestly preferred the pre-rework Morde, I greatly preferred his old Q and I miss his outrageous waveclear, but this new Morde isn't nearly as bad as people make him out to be. I'm actually greatly confused as to why his winrate tanked so much in solo lanes.

Pre Rework W was literally your best tool vs melees when Top.

New Morde is indeed bad. He is less functional by himself. You can't literally compete with less health, less MS, and handicapped when solo.