Mordekaiser - The Iron Irrelevant

JustaNewb··2 votes·401 views

While I admit to being one of those jerks who hates champion reworks (namely out of a feeling of lost nostalgia for years past), I do have to say that I think the only true solution for Mordekaiser at this point is a rework. He never, truly, worked to begin with, and relied heavily on items and mechanics that simply do not exist any longer. (I.E. Early Game Spell Vamp and such) He has been left as a tank who simply lacks crowd control, while he also lacks the intense sustain of champions such as Mundo.

  • His 'Q' is now a novelty which to truly focus on it he has to dip from his tankiness, or go AD (despite that T-Force has also been changed over the years.)
  • His 'W' was reworked some time ago to attempt to make up for the lack of Spellvamp early game, but does not honestly suit the champion - nor does it do near enough for his sustain or durability.
  • His 'E' always worked fine, until recently most champions simply out range this with their poke, including champions such as Lee Sin, Darius, and even Xin Zhao... Swain now has Morde's E, but he does it better.
  • His 'Ultimate' is his only true focal point, having to design him utterly around the idea that he MIGHT manage to capture the enemy ADC and use it to murder their team.

Mordekaiser has simply been left behind by the past 80 or so champions, insofar as mechanics, and he never truly had the adaptability to keep up. He is a one trick pony at this stage, entirely reliant on attempting to snatch, and stay on top of, increasingly mobile ADC characters. When Morde was designed... ADC champions either had high mobility OR high damage output, and now they have both. This renders old monsters like Mordekaiser irrelevant.

13 Comments

SEKAI2 votes

Points for the good title, though.

Mordepool2 votes

Figured I'd pop in,Sigh and then leave.

Velzard of Koz1 votes

AFAIK he is high on the list of future VGUs.

JustaNewb1 votes

VGU =/= Rework

Velzard of Koz3 votes

Uhm... Yes it kinds does.

JustaNewb2 votes

A VGU is a Visual Graphics Update. Many champions have had these without having their kits reworked in any way.

Mig892 votes

Im pretty sure riot defines it as a visual gameplay update. I could be wrong but ive seen them say VU for just visual updates, GU for gameplay updates (both of which they somewhat shelved for full VGUs)

RenownedWheat425 votes

V = visual G = gameplay U = update

Smaller things are either VU, or GU. VGU is a full rework.

JustaNewb2 votes

Ahh, RIOT lingo lol. Thus my misunderstanding.

ZackTheWaffleMan1 votes

Yeah, I thought it was that for a while, too.

Jbels2 votes

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A VGU is a Visual Graphics Update. Many champions have had these without having their kits reworked in any way.

VGU stands for Visual Gameplay Update. It's the difference between a graphical update and a kit rework. A Visual Update would be what happened to Garen when they made him look more modern. a VGU was what happened to Galio when they visually updated him and changed his gameplay as well. Then you have texture updates, like what happened with Rammus and MF, where they just modernize the textures

Jbels1 votes

Mordekaiser DID work, 4 seasons ago. I used to main him, and I would completely destroy mid and top with Morde. I don't know what possessed Riot to take a champion like Morde and try to balance him for botlane, WHILE KEEPING HIS LACK OF MOBILITY AND CC. What were they expecting? Of course he would have had to have broken numbers to be relevant, numbers were ALL HE WAS/IS.

Of course, there were nerfs to Rylai's, Liandry's Torment isn't the same item anymore, Magic pen got swapped around. You wouldn't even be able to revert him back to his old kit at this point anymore. That's not even mentioning the crap ton of bugs in his kit (Q hits only single target, but is still counted as AOE for the purpose of percent damage healed?????)

KnightOfEloHell1 votes

Morde isn't irrelevant. He has high sustain, high burst, and makes adc and dragons his bitch.

Morde has an amazing kit that can be used to bring great suffering, all he needs is a buff to his MS and maybe his max hp.

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