Thoughts on Morgana

Hollow Digit·6/20/2018, 10:30:00 PM·6 votes·5,668 views

Morgana's been my favorite midlane champ since I started back in season 3. She remains one of my favorite champions even though I don't play her as much as I used to, even if she's been budged around a whole lot and is now seen more as a support than an actual mid lane threat.

As much as I love her kit, I've taken a long look at it and thought to myself that it just doesn't fit her. Like at all. Why is a Menacing Fallen Angel using abilities that make more sense for something like a Swamp Witch? I honestly think Morgana's kit needs to be gutted and retooled into something fitting the idea of a Fallen Angel. Assuming she's still a Fallen Angel or similar in her new lore, of course.

That said, seeing how people react everytime a champ gets a new kit on top of Morgana's current kit still being somewhat viable makes me wonder if the best solution would be to do what Smite did for Wukong all those years ago and release a new champ with her old kit while giving her something wholly new.

15 Comments

La Bello6/20/2018, 10:48:50 PM8 votes

her passive and W are the main weakpoints of her kit. Passive being a byproduct of early design philosophy where EVERY champ had to have some form of innate sustain or REALLY high base HP regen. I dont think its really needed anymore and if anything I would like to see Spellvamp as a stat properly supported instead of treated like He-Who-Shall not be named but thats a conversation for another day.

Q is okay but really basic. Duration may be a bit too long however and it makes playing melee into Morgana absolutely frustrating. I wouldnt be opposed to having duration of bind scale with travel distance from 1~2.5s

E almost seems too strong to be a normal skill. I loathe how powerful this spell can be against Physical dps oriented champs because sometimes there is literally nothing they can do to remove the shield. I personally think Riot could just move this to her R and make room for a different kind of spell (including passive and W that would open up 3 slots to carve out a new gameplay style thats much more interactive than Bind-n-forget)

R is a cool spell but sometimes I wish I could place it on an ally rather than having to always use it on myself and charge in with Zhonya's Can you imagine if you could give Malphite your ultimate right after he initiates? anyways really unique spell and shouldnt be fundamentally changed in how it operates.

Overall I really like that Morgana is one of the first really proper utility mages. She's got great solo potential but also extremely helpful in conjuction with others. the biggest thing im looking forward too with a morg VGU would be the removal of the walking-tent model she currently has. Im sure we have the tech to make an actual dynamic dress and im looking forward to see'ing how Riot handles a female darkin.

btw @ OP if you didnt know Morg and Kayle are no longer angels. Theyre basically transcendent beings same as Rhaast/Varus/Aatrox come down to runeterra in physical forms. Morgana however seems to have done a ritual binding herself to Runeterra whereas Kayle once again seeks to achieve some sort of ascension back to borderline godlyhood.

BLIGHTBRINGER6/20/2018, 10:50:03 PM6 votes

For me personally it feels like if she hits her Q that's over, you're dead and you can't do anything unless you have QSS.

Dodging seems a little hard considering the existant issue of hitbox accuracy.

remakoro6/21/2018, 11:15:32 AM2 votes

My favorite part about morgana is that she cant fucking fly. Half of the champions fly when accelerated. Some just fly instead of walking cuz... No idea why. Sona

And morgana just walks in the most disgusting and unsightly fashion possible. I understand that she is "fallen" and possibly thats why she has to walk but fuck she is hard to look at.

LightIsMyPath6/21/2018, 4:18:10 PM2 votes

I actually love her kit connection with her old lore. She sought dark powers to fight her sister's tyranny. I find really ironical the fact that "dark power" for someone fighting for freedom is chaining power.

Gameplay wise she's probably the champion that has aged best and I hope they don't change her kit and the central focus it has on controlling movements (chain enemies -prevent allies from being chained).

But than they may drastically change her lore and turn her into a stereotypical dark character so I wouldn't really care anymore what they do with the kit.. I am horrified at this possibility

The only spell I don't really mind is her W. But, her W is what keeps her viable midlane. It needs to be an aoe with enough damage to waveclear or she would turn into a support only (which I 'm also terrified could happen). Since she's so focused on controlling enemy movement it makes more sense to have her aoe damage as dot and not burst.

Tuition Fee6/21/2018, 4:07:41 AM1 votes

I think Morg is a pretty great support, but she really doesn't have much going for her as a mid laner at the moment.

Reformedfindlay6/21/2018, 7:35:25 PM1 votes

I just find that laning with her is the most boring fucking experience league can possibly offer.

She just scorched earth thingys the wave and if you try to interact with her shes just going to black shield walk away.

She's as non-interactive as GP.