[SUGGESTION] Mordekaiser - His passive and how to make it healthier.
So, as we all know Mordekaiser rework will come one day... Probably. With that in mind I've decided to bring up a topic I had on my mind for ages.
Mordekaiser's passive. It's been causing problems ever since the creation of Morde. It allows him to mitigate lane pokes to absolute minimum, win trades with ease - especially couped with his W healing - and make Mordekaiser tanky despite him still dealing a shitton of damage. But it's also an inseparable part of the champion we've come to love, so it cannot be simply removed in the future rework.
However that brings up the question: How to keep it, but make it healthy?
... Short answer: It'll never be healthy. But there is a way to make it at least a bit more reasonable. Some of you may dislike the idea. For what I am proposing is: Giving Mordekaiser Mana. What it'd accomplish is gate the amount of shield he can sustain, make him make more important decisions (Should I use this ability now, if later I may need shield and I may lack the mana for it) instead of simply spamming away his spells like there is no tomorrow. Why health costs can't achieve it? Well, for one - His health costs are too small in the first place... _But more importantly... _ His shield acts like an extended part of his health bar anyway - as such he is paying health to get... essentialy health. It even sounds wrong! It's like buying 100 USD for 20 USD - sure you lose 20 USD BUT YOU GET 100 USD! It will never be a bad idea.
Mana would act as a diffrent resource, making it a bit more difficult to choose when or how to use your abilities. It would allow a next layer of balance to Mordekaiser.
Disclaimer: I am not claiming that at the current state Mordekaiser's shield is too strong. However it is still toxic and it is furthermore part of the reason he has to be balanced around having no CC and mobility. The future rework should remove the issue - Making the shield more difficult to maintain, should reasonably allow him to have CC in his kit, while also not making the shield overnerfed - It'd still be as strong, but harder to use properly.
at first I planned this to be a part of a waaaay bigger post about Mordekaisers rework, couped with ability ideas and such, but after much thought I've decided against it, as the ideas were a bit too unfinished to really put to good use in such a mega post. I will probably make use of said ideas in a diffrent post, possibly a Mordekaiser rework concept.
If anyone wants to see the original post: (removed the final part, because it was unneccesary.) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iAH97J4FKBNquSW_GBK5bHtNVwfx96rpUgejVoD4mpQ/edit?usp=sharing
