Like yeah, he's a spirit trapped in a suit of armor and he's got a few quotes about metal (the music, not the matter) but that's the extent of metal relatedness. He's way more closely related to death, torture, and anguish.
The dude's name is literally King of Death in German.
Sure the new name is dumb, but so is the old name. Let's think of better names.
The Soul Vanquisher The Dread Knight Keep it goin'
He was a metal reference since forever, every ability he has is related to a metal song, his fuckin title is master of metal. I never liked playing him but I liked how he's metal(music) based and the names of his abilities.
King of Death: Lord of Death. Yes such a good name RIOT.
And he had 100% to do with metal before his god awful rework.
Mordekaiser: The Paladin of Pain. Sounds so much better if they insist on changing his title.
So maybe instead of throwing Morde's connection with metal out through a window, Riot should try and direct Mordekaiser's identity more towards the metalish aspect instead of turning him into another generic Shadow Isles undead?
Morde has a lot to do with metal.
Morde's passive is him doing damage with his metal abilities to strengthen his armored exterior with their life force.
Morde's Q is him smacking the person with a gigantic, spiked, metal mace.
Morde's W has literal metal shards circling him.
Morde's E super heats the floor with soul energy and turning it into metal.
Morde's R uses the power of Metal to rip the soul from some one.
Three of his abilities, passive, Q, and W, all are DIRECTLY related to Metal with his passive being his Suit of Metal, his Q being his Metal Mace, and his W having actual Metal flying around him and his partner. To say his kit isn't Metal related is like saying Heimer's kit isn't Turret based because only two of his abilities spawn a turret or that Ahri isn't the Nine-Tailed Fox because her abilities have nothing to do with her abilities (Her abilities all seem to be focused around that orb after all) or Bard isn't a Wandering Caretaker because his only actual ability to directly take care of his teammates is his W, the healing shrine, or Kalista isn't the Spear of Vengeance because she doesn't get any boost for taking vengeance on anyone.
Ultimately, titles are decided by Lore and there's nothing in his current lore or in the new lore that says Mordekaiser is the 'Lord of Death'. His current lore has him grow strength when around other's pain and sorrow and his new lore states he enslaves souls. I mean, if we were to keep this true to lore like the rest, he's the Lord of the Shadow Isles or Lord of Anguish or Iron Slaver (Since he's metal and he enslaves souls) or something... I mean, his kit is metal-based both Musically and Literally.
Morde was imprisoned in metal, and his resolve and will turned the prison into a suit of armor. Please, tell me about another champ who manipulated their prison which is made of metal into a suit of armor?
His passive is literally called iron man
His Q is a literal reference to ace of spades
His W coats people in magnetic metal
His E drains the iron in peoples blood out of them
Plenty of metal in all this.
Have you ever considered we want him to be more about metal, because it's a space that he and he alone can fill in the roster
we already have plenty of champs with those shitty teal colors, let's use metal and lightning to define our favorite undead
It should be just "The master"
The Dragon Tamer :D
surprised this posted isn't downvoted to hell yet XD But I agree with you (and one of the few that will openly do so) about Morde not really being about metal. He is more death magic and the metal stuff just being a conduit.
What keeps Morde from using metal based magic? We are sure that his armor is nothing like what Thresh and Hecarim wear (which is just a physical manifestation of them) but it's a tool to imprison a more devastating power, it's a powerful artifact.
Mordekaiser power comes from the harvest and control of Pain, this can be easily achieved with the control over metal debrids (Edit: From his own armor) for torturing his victims.
Morde being not connected with metal is like saying that Ashe isn't connected with frost magic because she is an archer.
Lord of death metal? Or too obvious
to be fair the new name is dumb the old name is cheesy dumb. cause of the puns and references.
but just from looking at morde "metal" was never the first thing to pop into my mind.
lord of death sounds good tho
The Iron Revenant is one I saw suggested, I think it would fit him well while also allowing Riot to have some room to play with his concept.
It's a problem between how he was presented early on in the old lore, and the direction the current lore is going. Combine this with the fact that his entire kit changed in a way many do not like and you've got a whole lot of really upset people who are not just QQing.
People don't get over changes they don't like quickly, so while Riot may do an amazing job with Morde from here on out, particularly lore wise, it is still a blow to the people who loved him the way he was.
The name "The Iron Revenant" from another thread always sounded pretty neat in my opinion.
I also think we just rename Mordekaiser "Alphonse."
why not "The Soul Conqueror" also yes i agree i dont know where people got him to have metal as his main thing
InB4 massive amounts of downvotes and "metal dude with abilities that reference metal songs make him a master of metal".
