A skill suggestion for a possible Mordekaiser rework

With Galio and Warick reworks recently released and with Urgot and Evelynn reworks projected to come out this year, a new list of champions eligible for a VGU will be the target of Riot's rework teams. On this list is our boy Mordekaiser. I was discussing a couple things amongst other Mordekaiser mains when this idea came to me. The others thought it sounded pretty cool, so I figured I would share it here for all to see (hopefully some Rioters too wink wink).

The idea is that Mordekaiser can have an ability that can be activated and reactivated, similar to how his W works now. This ability will temporarily free Mordekaiser's soul from his suit of armor. His suit of armor will remain in place and will act as an anchor for his spirit, and as such they will be tethered together for a certain range. When Mordekaiser's soul is out of his suit, his armor would retain any bonus armor and magic resist he may have built, as well as its own health bar based on Mordekaiser's maximum shield amount. If this health bar gets depleted while Morde is wandering in his ethereal form, he will be snapped back into his armor. Similarly, if Mordekaiser's spirit loses a certain amount of health, if he breaks the range on his tether or if he reactivates this ability, his spectral form will be sent back to the armor from where it came.

While Mordekaiser is free from his armor, he wouldn't have the bonus armor, mr or health he's built. Instead, he can have bonus movespeed and either have bonus AP/AD or he can have additional effects on his abilities. Examples include bonus shield generation on his armor for the damage he's dealing, and an interaction on his current Q where the third hit will violently summon his suit of armor to him, dealing damage in an area of effect on his soul's location and perhaps stunning/knocking up targets.

I think it sounds like a pretty interesting mechanic that can help out Mordekaiser with a lot of stuff. It would thematically tie in to him being a vicious lich bound to a suit of haunted armor, while also providing him with some mobility and some crowd control that has counterplay. I hope you guys like the idea and I truly hope something similar to this could be on the big metal man one day. Thanks for reading.