Why Morgana is underpowered.

I've played Morgana since season 1 and I've had very little success with the character as a one trick. Most seasons I have a 65% win rate or so over hundreds of games as her.

Anyway, she is grossly underpowered for the most part and needs some serious attention.

Her abilities:

Passive: Soul Siphon 20% spell vamp versus large minions, large monsters, and champions.

Her passive is okay. It gives her marginal sustain. It's okay for laning if you W the large minion wave. It will give you back around 30-40 hp tops. Very underpowered compared to many of the other sustain passives such as Garens or Cho'gaths, but she's a mage so I suppose it's alright.

In team fights it might help you survive flash ulting into 5 people provided you have an hour glass and the enemy team is really bad.

Q Dark Binding Q is almost all of Morgana's damage. It has a high base damage and 90% AP scaling. It is also Morgana's biggest weakness.
It is one of the slowest moving projectiles in the game and is easily dodged at more than medium range. If your character has a dash/flash you should get hit by zero bindings during the course of the entire game unless you were hard cced. Flashes like Ezrael's are complete hard counters to this ability. You wait until she throws it and then you dash. If you don't have the reflexes then just don't play League of Legends. It's not the game for you.

This ability is why Morgana is a bad champion right now. If you miss this skill shot you lose almost all of your damage and are pretty much useless. While it's amusing to smurf in silver and watch kids get hit by 100% of bindings, it does not work on anything above gold. People with brains will easily dodge.

Other champions do not suffer this disability. All in a Blitzcrank after he misses his grab? Okay he has a knock up and is tanky. Thresh missed his Q? That's okay he has flay and and a shield still. Miss your Q as lux? Okay you still have E which does a large amount of damage. Morgana misses her Q? Immediately all in and kill her because she has absolutely no way to stop it.

W Tormented Soil Back in the day this was a great lane push ability. RIght now it is lane push about on par with every other mage. In fact, you know who has lane push better than Morgana right now? Talon. That's right. An AD assassin can spam his Q and wave clear just as fast and efficiently as Morgana. He also jumps over walls and instantly kills just about everyone in the game.

As for W's damage it's pretty high but only if you land Q. Otherwise the ability is mostly worthless. Once again, everything about Morgana relies on landing Q.

E Black Shield I guess this is the main reason people pick Morgana. It blocks CC against some people like Pyke and Blizcrank. You know what else it has? A 23 second cooldown at level 1. So while it may be able to save somebody occassionally, it will not stop a consistently aggressive all in. Late game this ability will have an 8 second cooldown with full CDR. It is a ridiculously good late game ability.

The actual shield value is pretty terrible and is nearly worthless against actual mages. Leblancs will still instantly kill you.

R Soul Shackles This ult used to be amazing in season 1. Combine it with galio's old ult and it instantly won team fights. Alas that day is over. This ult is insanely easy to escape unless you let Morgana walk right up next to you or you were foolish enough to get hit by a max range binding.

Her ult generally has one of two uses:

1.) You hit somebody with your Q and then you ult them. This only happens if your opponent has severely misplayed and let you hit them with your Q by either letting you walk right up next to them to abuse Q's huge hit box, or you got hit by a max range binding in which case you fucked up.

This combo will not kill anyone unless you blow ignite or are significantly ahead in items. It's damage is just too low. It's about 80% of most character's HP's. Compared to the Leblanc's and Zeds of the world this is garbage.

2.) You get right next to a person and ult. When the stun goes off you Q the person. This is the most reliable way to ult as Morgana. Unfortunately, getting right next the person either means they committed to diving you, you blew flash to get in, or they were actually dumb enough to let you walk right up next to them. It is very easy to escape this with a flash or a dash, but low mobility champions might struggle.

Truthfully, Morgana is a good champion. She's rated as "easy", but is one of the most skill shot dependent champions in the entire game. At higher levels of play this is severely crippling for her unless her team has other, more reliable cc.

She isn't even rewarded well for landing a skill shot. Land Q+W on a carry and it will a decent amount of damage. How about other skill shot dependent mages? Lux lands a Q and the ult is a 100% death sentence. Land E on veigar? He doesn't even need to ult you but you and everything you've done has been erased from history. Morgana lands Q? You will live unless she is willing to blow ult on you or her teammates are capable of all inning you.

Where she really falls short is her lack of damage. I play her mid quite a lot. Most of the time I will go 4/0 or something similar early. I will do a ton of damage. Late game it will simply not out damage actual carries even if I am the top damage done in the entire game almost every match. This is because instantly being able to delete somebody with a character like Zed is too broken right now.

In higher levels of play this is fine. With gold/plats/diamonds I will find my ADC in team fights and stand on top of them. I'll CC anyone who attacks the ADC. It's pretty effective. It is absolutely not effective in SIlver. If your team has an ADC who does not know how to play ADC because they bought their account or something similar then you're going to lose as Morgana Mid. Her personal damage just isn't high enough.

It's actually quite frustrating to be very good at this character, but to see so little reward for it.

Share your thoughts, comments, experiences. If anyone else has one tricked this character a ton I'd like to hear about your experience. I'd estimate that I've played close to 5000+ games on this character since season 1. I haven't met many other dedicated players.