Morde, Veigar, and a Question for Riot.
People have been complaining about the damage nerfs, but they didn't look at the other parts. his health costs were basically halved, his cooldowns were reduced, and he gets a cast of e on himself and an ally. Taric heal, except both get full benefits AND mobility. Problem is, people like the whole burst everyone and get their ghost. Riot has a good philosophy there. Now before you start yelling at me for "Riot-worshiping," Let me explain. It's a good philosophy, they're just NOT APPLYING IT where it should be, i.e. zed. There is too much mobility in this game, either that or it is VERY misplaced. high base ms people should not have a lot of, if any, mobility. I think Pantheon is a great example. his major mobility comes from his high base ms, and a short range jump stun on a fairly long cooldown. I think zed is a great example of the opposite. relatively high base ms, and a metric ton of mobility(figuratively speaking of course). Lee sin is also a horrible offender.
Back to the point. Mordekaiser got mobility, lower CDs, lower health costs in exchange for lower damage. Honestly it just makes it so gunblade is again a good item on him instead of WotA. With veigar, his only defenseive tool was his e. he has low base ms, and no defensive option, literally NO CC except for his e cage. INCREASE THE HITBOX. MAKE IT .5 SECOND DELAY. also raise his base ms. really though, most of the issues in this game account to mobility. What good is damage if you can't get anywhere to do it, or get out fast enough to live after you deal damage? What good is it to have 5000 AP if you can't go anywhere with it or stay out of danger long enough to DO anything with it? I'm not saying give veigar mobility abilities, just raise his base ms and give him an easier time with his cage. Irrelevant to the rest of this, meteor delay should be reduced to .75 if the cage delay stays at .75 If it changed to .5 delay on cage, 1 second delay on w would be fine. maybe increase the hitbox. increase the hitbox on his e to better match the visuals. As of right now, his e stuns only if you hit the small line to the center of the champ. it should be ANY part of the champ.
@Riot now, why don't you listen to the community? is it because of stats? Because it would not be valid to assume the proportion of the people who post on the boards and are vocal about this/upvote posts aren't a good representation of the whole community, the whole playerbase? Let me tell you something. Those who do not get on the boards just accept what happens. Even if they dislike it, they'll try their best to accept it and adapt. That's not a bad thing, but if they will accept it anyways, why not listen to those of us who post on the boards? People have good ideas. Champion ideas, unique ones, that seem interesting. Ideas of how to change champions in an acceptable way to the community(obviously it can't be exact, but tweaks can happen). Maybe I'm just blowing smoke and confronting you about nothing, maybe these community-suggested changes are coming, somewhere down the road. As of now, it hasn't happened(meaningful zed nerfs, lee sin nerfs, sona buffs, veigar changes to actually buff instead of nerf him...). All I ask is that if you listen to the community, more players will want to play more, and that means more possibility of money, because let's face it, it's free, but those skins tho.....yummm(DJ sona, final boss veigar, etc.)
Also something else to say. If you make it so all champions are close to equal and everyone can be viable, gues what? LC$ BIG PLAYZ WILL HAPPEN WITH EVERY CHAMPION NOT JUST LEE SIN/ZED/ETC. Imagine that. People can make awesome and big plays without having to use people who are just made that way. it will actually depend on skill. Hecarim will knock people into skillshots. It could happen.
TL;DR: I have a dream that one day, Riot will listen to the community and realize that those who aren't vocal just accept it.
