Morgana rework-ideas and hopes
Hello everyone! This is a post about Morgana and her (hopefully) upcoming changes
Morgana as she is right now is in a state where she is neither the ideal bot laner during laning phase, IMO anyway, nor is she the ideal solo laner due to needing to stack up on items before doing anything but farming with W. (probably a lot of possible feedback on this, but not the focus)
As the real focus of the rework has been stated to be her passive and W. Also stating that if no desirable improvements or adjustments can be found, that they will just give her a visual update. Fair enough in and of itself, but I feel like she could need some changes to really compete as a slightly higher skilled mage. I forgive my inability to write in an entertaining or otherwise interesting manner, but I will move on to my desires for the rework.
-make the Q and R casts feel smoother. Particularly R cast. A flash-R-Zhonya combo combines a 5min, 2min and whatever your R cd is at that time, so making it feel like you are offering these for moderate amount of safety in a meta with such high damage would at least make sense to me. Not to mention that the 0.5s channel can be put in the time period between the 1st and 2nd tick. With the spectrum of abilities and techniques to avoid the Q, I think making it smoother wouldnt hurt either, but no idea how that would be done.
-make an interaction with hard CC and the W The W lacks the necessary damage the majority of the game, so making an interraction where if you get hard cc'ed on top of a tormented soil, that it then deals % of your missing HP would fit with the theme of the W. To avoid supports abusing it as more shred it could be put as a 1% of missing HP per 100ap and only for the duration you are rooted/stunned by morgana on top of the W. Would put her further into the late game focus wise, but make it way more rewarding.
-Higher auto attacking range Being ranged should mean that someone has to get close enough to let you get in an auto attack or two where you play your range, not for darius to be able to pull you in with ease (blackshield aside) when you get close enough to auto attack. Morgana lacks mobility spells beyond flash, so letting her be slightly safer when auto attacking. If so only a 500~550 range.
-Increase mana costs Make the decisions you make feel impactful and openers for windows, either yours or the enemies when you use them incorrectly too much. Currently you can spam W as a support bot lane and basically never run out of mana unless you need to use other abilities as well. Letting you get manaflow and support item stacks with basically 0 work, which isnt the intention of the kit.
-Potential for other balancing options outside numbers would be making the damage of W or the interaction between W and CC be delayed based on when you clicked W. It isnt necessarily an instant cast necessary ability and would probably let her build an identity of locking you down, then tearing you down if there was some delay as you feel an ever impending doom if you get caught in her cc chain without tenacity/clease.
These are my thoughts anyway, I am sure just about every morgana player have their own and I hope the community will be a big part when it comes to shaping the rework. My ideas are just my ideas and I hope others will offer theirs so we get a morgana that we would enjoy, not one that we can accept.