I want Riot to retry the Morde experiment
Aka try to create a viable alternative for a marksman bot. Currently every team is basically guaranteed to have a marksman in it, and this has some unhealthy consequences
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The strongest marksman will always be a VERY strong pick, because every team comp will need a marksman anyway (whereas the strongest mage can still be a risky pick because of the possibility of a counterpick, like an assassin), especially since marksmen are usually less vulnerable to counterpicks than solo lanes.
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The meta will always revolve around the question "Who is able to deal with marksmen?". Whether it's tanks being tanky enough to survive them, assassins/burst mages being able to delete them, bruisers being able to put out enough splitpush pressure or something else, it's always just whoever happens to have a way to deal with marksmen.
It obviously doesn't have to be Morde (I personally think Aatrox is a good candidate for a rework into a bot lane carry), but having a viable alternative (and counter) to the marksmen that we see every game would greatly improve overall game health, with the added benefit of finally getting a way to actually see how strong the marksmen class as a whole is (currently there is no good way to find out, because every game has 2 marksmen in it (not counting stuff like Graves or Kindred in the jungle), of which 1 will win, causing the class as a whole to always have around a 50% win rate, even though it might be much stronger/weaker).