"Mordekaiser is just plain unfair" - Worlds Casters

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the main issue is how EXP is shared and the importance that this game has over DotA in terms of support levels. In DotA2 trilanes work because you can pull the creep wave, and have a third member (normally a hard support) who only get experience from jungle creeps, or who roams and ganks while staying relatively low level. This kind of strategy doesn't work in League of Legends because, in general, League has way less comeback opportunities (DotA2's item system gives a lot more power, so carries tend to spike late and can swing games very hard, and smart item choice/gameplay can win games even if you're behind due to no ability scaling). This means that, theoretically, you could win with let's say a trilane bottom with a Janna who roams and doesn't leech much EXP or something (and roaming HAS been a thing in this game before), there's just no real way for that to scale into a late/midgame advantage unless it leads to a bunch of kills/objectives. Barring that, it's garbage - whereas in DotA2 you're supplying a carry with freefarm, which is much more valuable than in League of Legends because of deny mechanics and the length of the lanes (and the importance of minion control). DotA2's meta also doesn't REQUIRE you to have a dedicated jungler, though there are some dedicated junglers that definitely do exist and work just fine. This means you either have to dual lane offlane (which loses to the enemy's safe trilane, if they run it) or safe trilane (which beats everything except an offensive trilane, and has the tools to beat that too). Because of DotA2's more fluid methods of gaining exp and gold (nondedicated junglers and supports utilizing the jungle at certain breakpoints to farm safely, opening up lanes for other members of the team throughout the game... or stacking jungle camps for a support like KotL or a carry to kill very quickly to accelerate their gold gain, thus opening up waves for other people) these kinds of gameplay styles can work in that game but will probably never work in League as these mechanics are missing from this game.

Basically, I don't ever see trilaning working in League of Legends because there is a certain amount of mechanical knowledge that involves making it work in DotA2 (knowing the pulls, knowing how to stack, knowing how to get gold/exp without utilizing a lane as a support champion like Rylai or Ezalor) that will probably never exist in this game. So, CertainlyT suggesting it certainly isn't helping - this would only work in this specific case if Morde's ally also got solo/split exp (meaning every Morde last hit Morde would get 1x exp and both of the supports would get split exp as if Morde wasn't there), but I don't think this is how it works (it just generates the EXP that gets split to your ally and gives it to you). What he's suggesting is akin to suggesting you play support roam Evelynn in the current meta, or roam anything in the current meta - maybe it worked once, maybe it will work in the future, but right now it's way too risky to be even halfway useful to the game as a whole. Maybe 20% of the time the trilane would work out, but the other 80% of the time they just put one champion down there to get exp (probably the toplaner or ADC) and relegate another farmer to top lane. Because you have no jungler (because trilane!), you lose tons of pressure.

tl;dr: What CertainlyT is suggesting (trilaning, having Morde roam to every lane, etc) is ridiculous, and implying that it would EVER be successful in the current state of the game (or in any soon to come iterations, barring huge changes to the way the game works) is a total slap in the face to people looking for legitimate answers on Mordekaiser's state right now.

we don't have to give him credit for that, actually.

CertainlyT is a game designer working at a fairly big deal company nowadays. Riot (and, as an extension, we the players) depend on him to release champion designs that are not only unique and interesting, but also capable of being balanced to some extent with fairly minimal changes (you want a kit that's mostly balanced in a vacuum, with interesting interactions and good gameplay/counterplay - then numbers changes can easily balance a kit that's overtuned or undertuned). The Mordekaiser rework is basically a giant hodgepodge of either overbearing gameplay (Morde who gets ahead) or incredibly frustrating (Morde who gets behind). I don't think I've played a single game as the new Morde where I really felt that we won as a result of any particular plays I made - it mostly had to do with what items I had at which points in the game, and whether we got dragon ghost. Considering the dragon ghost can easily facilitate things like 20 minute barons, or two tower pushes from complete safety, there's a huge problem with his kit right there. But Morde also has the issue where either you get a couple kills and good farm in lane and can manfight everyone and anyone on the enemy team, or you don't snowball and it basically feels like you can fight no-one. This is not a good gameplay pattern for any character to have, but especially not for a pick going into a role where 90% of the other farmers are going to be a hard matchup for him. Barring fringe cases, ranged characters are going to have the tools to easily kite and defeat Morde unless he makes some very good coordinated plays with his support, or they're stupid as hell and try to fight him. This is not healthy for the state of the game (Morde is a character that doesn't "excel" at capitalizing on enemy mistakes, he basically depends on it) and it's not really healthy for the state of the character.

Most of the problems with Morde's kit are pretty easy to see, honestly. His Q needs to be reverted closer to what it was before, to allow for power in other parts of his kit. This removes the "I hit you 3 times and now you've taken 3k damage" aspect of Morde, and allows more power into other parts of his kit. Makes his W deal damage without an ally but get a bonus with one (not double damage, but some sort of increased damage while the rings are touching, OR make it slow with an ally for a small amount? Speedboost for Morde if the rings are touching?) and boom, suddenly the ability both cements Morde's ability to fight with an ally while giving him a bit more waveclear and ability to fight in a solo lane. His E is fine just the way it is (reduced CD for reduced damage is fair with the new role they're trying to push). His ultimate and dragon ghost can remain the same if you want, or be changed. I think the dragon ghost is pretty silly but it doesn't seem to be the most annoying part of his kit (with, imo, the 3 hit Q's insane damage being the major problem with his kit that makes it hard to balance). His current kit requires you to hit that third hit to really do meaningful damage, and putting all of his power into such a situational spell like that is not really enjoyable for anyone.

Roaming to every lane to take every creep isn't troll? 5 man mid isn't troll? Trilane isn't troll?

I agree that breaking the meta is ok in certain circumstances, but to advise people to do things that League isn't balanced around is trolling. The meta was determined based on where the most gold, experience and objectives could be taken without sacrificing too much champion power or impact. So if you intentionally try to force something that simply doesn't work with the way the game is structured, you're encouraging trolling.

The things CertainlyT mentioned could work in a teamwork-oriented environment, but not in solo queue. And even in a teamwork-oriented environment, those things would be very difficult to pull off simply due to the fact that gold and experience are distributed in a fixed way.

I fondly remember the times you picked into mid lane, hit 6 with ignite, she dives , you q e ignite ult, she shrouds and the ghost appears <3

R: Super duper ultra slavering of your drakonid soul: Range: Global. Cost: 0. Cooldown: 120/80/40. Passive: Your champion gains double gold and triple awesomeness from minions. Also, your basic attacks deal 20/30/40/50/715 bonus magic damage on-hit (scales with your Q rank) and heal for 20/35/116 (scales with your Trinket rank). This deals true damage if you have maximum [INSERT EXCUSE TO IGNORE MANA HERE] and apply a stack of Mark of the Redundant. At three stacks, the mark explodes to deal 100/150/200 (+200% AD) (+15% bonus MS) (+73.44% cooldown reduction) physical damage to all enemies around your target. Additionally, you can't be reported.

Active: Consumes all your [INSERT EXCUSE TO IGNORE MANA HERE] to deal true damage to all enemy champions equal to 10-100% of their maximum HP over 3 seconds (scales with your [INSERT EXCUSE TO IGNORE MANA HERE]). While active, you can teleport to any enemy champion, refunding 20% of your [INSERT EXCUSE TO IGNORE MANA HERE]. If this kills an enemy champion, your champion becomes invulnerable, restores 25/50/96.799 (+130% AP) health to your hero and slaves their soul, temporarily increasing your AD, attack range and death timer by 15%.

Because hes banned 99% of the time.