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The Problem with Morellonomicon:

MrButternuss·2/15/2020, 12:23:56 PM·2 votes·1,932 views

So, lets just get this one out: I really dont like the way item 3165 is "used" currently. What do i mean by this?

It's really simple, actually. People build this item for one reason. And for one reason alone. And this reason is item 3916.

In about 90% of all scenarios, people just rush item 3916 after their Boots or first Item just to only finish it after they got all their other items. Almost nobody builds item 3165 for the HP or the Grievious Wounds. The most important part is the 15 Magic Penetration that item 3916 gives you.

The rest of the Item is mostly just an unwanted extra, slapped onto item 3916 . Nobody wants to spent 1400 additional Gold for HP and or Antiheal.

Also, people who want the Magic Penetration usually dont want the 300 HP and would like to have more AP instead.

So, how do we fix this? My idea for a bandaid fix was to simply swap around the Stats. This means item 3916 gives the grievious wounds passive and item 3165 gives the 15 Magic Penetration.

This would also make item 3916 the AP counterpart to item 3123. Meaning its a quick and easy way to get some Antiheal. Maybe even give item 3916 a bit more stats so its worth the gold. Or just increase the combine cost of item 3165 to make the "nerfed" item 3916 cheaper.

Additionally you could remove the 300 HP and swap it for CDR, AP etc. We really have enough HP AP items already. Like item 3116 , item 3151 and item 3027

This would make the Item more of an option for burst mages specifcally, by also delaying the big 30 Magic Penetartion powerspike a lot of AP champions have. (Looking at you Akali )

Share your thoughts and ideas below.

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(Fun: take a shot for every item 3916 you see in this post) Also: Is it possible to give Morellonomicon its old Icon back? It looked a lot better in my opinion ^^

2 Comments

Glory972/15/2020, 1:06:22 PM2 votes

I think a lot of people buy morello for the anti heal. Healing is extremly popular in the current meta with soraka and sona played in toplane. And people buy grivious wounds to counter heal. Yes oblivion orb + sorc-boots is one of the best powerspikes you can get in early to midgame, but the 1400 upgrade to morello is extremly inefficient if you have no need for the grivious wounds. Most mage/ap-assassin player sit on just the oblivion orb for as long as possible if they don't need grivious wounds and just continue buying other items. And if the game goes so long that they have to worry about not having enough space for items/ components they are likely to just sell the obilivion orb and go for another item, because the flat magic penetration is not that great in lategame anymore.

I don't like the suggestion of putting griev wounds on oblivion orb, because it allows mages to access grivious wounds much sooner. Mages are extremly good at doing aoe-dmg with their spells so they can quite easily apply grivious wounds to the whole enemy team. Whereas tanks and most ad champs can't really apply grivious wounds to more than 2 or 3 people at the same time.

i don't really like the fact either that so much strenght of the ap-itemisation comes from the flat-pen combo. But ap-itemisation is pretty badly designed in general and in desperate need of a rework.

Orfeo Blackheart2/16/2020, 5:52:25 PM1 votes

Some people do buy it for health and the anti heal is helpful too. This item is especially useful for tanky AP champs, first ones that come to mind are Vladimir and Mordekaiser.