Hey Riot, instead of nerfing duo lane Morde to make W castable in a solo lane.

YOU BEEN WARNED·9/14/2015, 1:41:23 AM·72 votes·2,228 views

Why not keep it as it functions on live, except hit two birds with one stone? Current Morde is too reliant on support to function; meanwhile solo Morde entirely loses an ability. Both lose out very hard against kiting.

Why not have W be castable on enemy champions instead? Since is the master of metal and W's theme is magnets; and because his Q and R are single target abilities with no meaning to reach the target; give it the active with a small damage bonus.

If Morde auto attacks a target then Ws that target, it acts as a mini-displacement with minor damage. Sounds like a fair tradeoff since the other usage heals, gives mobility and deals a ton of damage. Wasn't that your thinking with 's usage of Fury? You get 3 powerful options with 50 fury, but you can only execute one.

Thoughts? :)

20 Comments

Orangesilk9/14/2015, 9:27:54 AM5 votes

I'd like to remind you duo Morde is by no means weak and is sporting a 62% winrate, if people weren't bothering to try and lose games with solo lane Morde, his winrate would be much, MUCH higher.

He's slightly support reliant at the beginning of the game, the point where he can make the most out of his level advantage in lane. When he completes the Rylais + Trinity combo, he only has to hit a target once to keep him in place for the third hit, and is too bulky to be bursted down by assassins, which makes trying to assasinate him, or trying to not fight him head-on a win/win scenario.

Duo lane Morde could use some nerfs to be honest.

Dragnamous9/14/2015, 4:24:21 AM3 votes

I honestly just wish they would revert the changes entirely. Old Mordekaiser was fun to play, if a little bland. Now he's become a big "feast or famine" mess. Mord used to be my go to top laner for ranked, until they decided to force him bot lane for their experiment. I've still never played him as adc, and I swear to god I never will.

Jungle Lux God9/14/2015, 1:11:22 PM2 votes

Duo lane Mordekaiser is legitimately overpowered, while Solo lane Mordekaiser is, by comparison, very weak.

I'm not sure that that kind of ability that brings a target to Mordekaiser would be healthy. Sure, Mordekaiser is weak to kiting, but that is practically the only weakness that Mordekaiser has in a duo lane, and removing that weakness might make him obnoxiously overbearing when strong to the point where he can't be balanced.

Stephenizgod9/14/2015, 4:34:09 AM2 votes

I want new Morde to work honestly, Old Morde was fun but he was just too toxic... Your idea is pretty good! I like it alot, seriously i do but it might be too "broken" bot lane. So to nerf it, instead of hitting its healing and damage, they could do something like "Morde cant choose which target to cast W on, but it prioritizes the nearest ally champion, if none is present it will place it on the nearest enemy champion" something like that? I would think that better then nerfing its health regain and damage. Any nerf to DuoKaiser is 10x worse on Solokaiser so if we can only nerf Duokaiser i think this would be the way to go.

Good idea btw!

Tails Doll9/14/2015, 3:33:34 AM2 votes

I like where this is going. For some reason I feel some OPness in it, but I like it.

Miraweave9/14/2015, 11:05:22 AM2 votes

I don't think you understand that the primary goal of the change is to nerf duo lane morde because he's hilariously overpowered right now.

Solidair39/15/2015, 4:21:20 AM1 votes

Duo lane morde needs to be nerfed regardless, he has a near 60% winrate in plat+

In fact, I think the nerfs they have planned for him won't be enough, but we'll see.

Lady Hammerlock9/14/2015, 10:25:15 AM1 votes

uhm scaling on W increased base dmg of overtime increased can cast on self HOWEVER dmg over time does not occur only activating it again now has a health cost

lmakehersquirtle9/14/2015, 8:30:34 PM1 votes

You do realize that is EXCACTLY what they are doing to him in PBE right now right?