Mordekaiser Proposed Changes
Alright, the past few months I have been working on trying to figure out how to rework Mordekaiser in his current state to address the problems that people who play him face, as well as the people who face him also have to deal with. The pre-rework Mordekaiser faced issues of toxicity in his kit while also being rather underwhelming when he wasn't extremely oppressive. Also, the nature of Mordekaiser's kit and how it functioned thrived heavily on - for lack of a better term - human stupidity and the absence of a fundamental understanding of his passive.
The rework by CertainlyT attempted to address certain issues, and while it made a great push in trying to shake things up for the Iron Revenant, the rework did not answer Mordekaiser's problems in a way that satisfied most. More importantly, it created a strange situation where Mordekaiser mains had to move to a lane they likely did not frequent, and to counter his new particular opponents - who finally had means to deal with his oppressive passive - as well as answer the lack of sieging power that marksman would have, Mordekaiser was given additional powers.
The shift to Mordekaiser's W from Creeping Death to Harvester of Sorrow hurt Mordekaiser's solo lane and only made him just as oppressive in bottom lane as he was in the other lanes, and the bonus experience and dragon ghosts just gave him free power that opposition had no direct means to counter. In the end, the rework itself was not a failure, but the understanding of what Mordekaiser needed was, and that has been something that nobody seems to know, not Riot, not the Mordekaiser fanbase, not the remainder of the playerbase, in the five years since Mordekaiser has been released.
Now, my thoughts are only an opinion (take that into account), even still my efforts have been unique because of the nature of my background. While Mordekaiser is my favored champion and who I would consider my main, I don't restrict myself to him often, and I often find myself playing multiple roles, so I have a slight understanding of the game as a whole, for those who play Mordekaiser and those who face him. I was in a unique position, with the majority of my recent experience for the past few months being in the bot lane (either as the marksman or as athe support), I was surprisingly prepared for his shift to the bot lane, and realized why it was done.
Considering all of this, I took my time to work out what made Mordekaiser oppressive, what he lacked, and what needed to be changes for him to satisfy all parties. Granted, this is just the proposed changes, I am still working on the in-depth analysis and explanation for each of my proposed changes, but generally what I did was to answer the concerns of Riot, Mordekaiser mains, and people who faced Mordekaiser, in the top, middle, or bot lane... or hell, maybe even the jungle (I put a few changes there specifically because I thought Mordekaiser was a champion who could jungle well, even moreso after the rework).
Share your thoughts, I'm still working on this... I am ALWAYS working on this.
God I need a life.
