why does morde need a rework over a lot of other champs in this game?

and why does he need a rework that will change his playstyle and identity so much that he is barely recognizable, even to the morde mains?

"non-interactive laning" morde has plenty of interaction, but players tend not to play around his weaknesses, and instead try to fight morde in their own minion waves. you know what morde will do? he will E the wave, Q your face, walk away. you did no damage to him while he chunked you for a good part of your hp. harass him down with ranged abilities. CC him with the CC you inevitably have as a champion not named mordekaiser.

if players played smarter around morde instead of hoping to just trade with him blindly then they'd easily take morde down without a hitch. but since a majority of players either don't know morde well enough or just play like imbeciles then they will, of course, lose hard

"binary gameplay" a bunch of other champs are more binary and more shitty to play against. until annie stops existing this argument is null and void

"he's getting buffed overall!" not really. his Q is completely altered to have ramp up time, his W is only usable in duo laning, his E is getting heavy base damage nerfs.

• the old q is fine because it had easily accessible damage in a fight and he could bounce it off of minions onto enemy champs. now it is single target and relies on people being stupid enough to stand next to morde so he can hit them. he'll get one or maybe two hits off on minions, laner will now walk away, morde is forced to use Q on a minon or just have it expire altogether, and now the enemy laner will walk back up and smack morde around until he is swiss cheese

• the w is nerfed for solo laners. it is shit for solo laners now and removes any incentive to even put levels in it

• E is just getting outright nerfed for waveclear if you want to max it. bases removed because they want to make hybrid a thing (hybrid is NEVER good thing to balance)

so we nerf waveclear AND damage on an immobile champion whose big thing is raw damage output with no mobility or CC. https://fedgeno.com/genius.jpg

"changing the meta!!!!!! i sniff markers too" yeah, no. the meta will not be changed. who the fuck wants to take a maybe ok maybe great usually bad botlane champ over consistent DPS? teams are not ever going to give up their tower destroying capability for a situational as fuck dragon.

"but but but rylias and trinity force means he can catch things now!!!!" if rework morde can theoretically build that, then why not build it on current morde???????

because its fucking stupid and it costs way too much gold, that's why. by the time morde builds those expensive as fuck items, the enemy adc has already gotten 3 items, taken botlane inhib tower, and pretty much snowballed the game out of control.

they're taking a champ that's already somewhat "win hard, lose hard" to "win harder, lose harder". that is not healthy gameplay.

"morde lacks counterplay" he has plenty of counterplay right now. his rework offers too much counterplay to a kit which can't really afford it, with too little reward.

changing morde from a champ that is decent but not the best (case in point: why does everyone plays ahri over mordekaiser, a champ with supposedly no counterplay?) into a champ which, admittedly, will be situationally strong, but only situationally so

tldr: morde's rework is unnecessary and pushes more into a lane where he not thrive. a simple champion with solid niche and straightforward gameplay needs no changes.