Morgana Mid versus Support

Morgana Deus··1 votes·1,795 views

Until this patch Morgana mid was a pretty rare pick. I OTPed Morgana mid for the past 10 years and chose support as my off role.

Generally, Morgana support has been a counter a pick. Her win rates have been average. She was really only used against certain champions. With the recent buffs I suppose she's a solid general pick bot lane. Her unfavorable match ups are not insanely unfavorable, and her favorable match ups are extremely good for her.

At this point Riot needs to decide Morgana's role in ths game. Her damage ratios are high enough that she can be a respectable mid lane mage. Her shield is good enough that she can be a respectable support. Supposedly, Riot doesn't want a champion to be a solid pick in more than one role. I guess that's fine. So which role should Morgana take?

Mid Lane Morgana:

  • Power farms about as well as Xerath, Talon, Ekko, Velkoz, Malzahar, Lissandra, and other meta mid laners.
  • Roams better than other mages, but worse than most assassins
  • Lane is about as safe as Leblanc and other champions who have a dash.
  • Late game provides excellent picks and peel for the team's carry, but doesn't personally carry well.
  • Is weak against early game shove lanes like Talon and Ekko. She cannot tower farm if power pushed.

Support Morgana:

  • Counters Alistar, Leona, and Pyke. But will die instantly to any of them in lane if any mistake is made.
  • Very weak to long range poke mages bot like Velkoz and Xerath. Provides very little sustain in lane.
  • Terrible into Nami, Soraka, and Sona unless you're trying to play a kill lane. (Draven/Morgana, Lucian/Morgana, etc) Vayne Morgana into something like Sona and an average adc is actual aids.
  • Late game provides excellent pick and peel for the adc.

Personally, I think she's fairly balanced because whichever role she chooses she can't perform the other role well in the same game. For example, if you go mid and you max W > Q > E then her shield is a very long cooldown and it's weak. If you're support and you do Q > E > W and build support items then her damage is pretty mediocre for a mage.

So what role do you think Morgana should be in?

5 Comments

TinkerTantrums1 votes

I picked Morgana early on as one of my main supports because I wanted to be able to switch to mid if the rest of the team didn't suit up for the task. Blind pick has issues, but it's the only mode available in bot games.

But lately with the new Morgana/Kayle rework and free champion rotation on top of it she's gotten so much play that her ban rate is through the roof. I think they're just tired of her company.

So I mostly just get to play her in bot games.

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Sirsir1 votes

Has she actually been better mid lately? I do it from time to time when I'm feeling lazy. Shes a lower effort mid champ than malzahar, you can literally just drop W and roam.

Thats probably why. Her kit is horribly outdated for laning, but not in a bad way like Brand

Morgana Deus1 votes

I play Morgana and Malz both. Malz is far more brain dead than Morgana in terms of farming. Malz with lost chapter is fucking nuts for pushing. I just roll my fingers on the keyboard and walk away from the wave. The E and W will auto push through almost 2 waves worth of minions.

Anyway, yes, her win rate is up. I don't really notice a huge difference. Before the update I was sitting on a 60% win rate as Morgana this season on my new account over 200 games. Since the patch I'm still at a 60% win rate. You feel a little stronger, but it's not that ridiculous.

I find her about as interactive in lane as any other mage. The role in general is not that fun for opponents.

HP Crookshanks1 votes

I think her kit is more suited for mid lane because of her self only sustain, damage/wave clear on W and high AP ratios. But Riot is really lazy to update her uninteractive and outdated kit to compete with the new and flashy mid laners and chooses to nerf her when she is decent in mid lane so she's mostly played as a support.

The bad Yasuo1 votes

I think she is better as a support. The problem with morgana mid.

  1. Very poor wave clear early on
  2. Useless when behind, If her Q,W,R, and ignite doesn't kill her opponent she just dies.
  3. Very vulnerable If she misses her Q, she can just get all in'd and die. So she is very bad against mobile champions.
  4. If she uses her maxed W to push then she isn't using it to trade. So shes not doing any damage
  5. If the other mid laner take cleanse then morgana just autoloses.
  6. Has 1 point into her e until level 14 so it's weak, and has a really high cool down. Will ignore an abilities initial CC but that's about it.
  7. Her kit really wasn't designed to duel. More of team fight zoning, protect the carry with black shield, find a pick with maxed Q.
  8. In team fights she doesn't have high damage. She doesn't have the crazy aoe damage that all the other mid lane mages have like veigar, xerath, lux etc.

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