Mordekaiser Needs to Look More Like He's From the Shadow Isle

Epic Murph·11/15/2014, 5:09:31 AM·3 votes·1,122 views

Don't get me wrong. has an excellent concept: a dread knight from the Shadow Isle with one goal in mind, spreading torment and heavy metal music throughout Valoran. But that's all he looks like, a knight. He doesn't give off that "vengeful spirit" vibe that other champions like , , and and the recently updated do.

That's where you come in. I'd like to hear your ideas on how you would improve Mordekaiser's visual asthetics to make him feel more at home in the Shadow Isle. Pictures, ideas, artwork. It all helps. :D

EDIT: Added Maokai

10 Comments

4nth0l0gy11/15/2014, 10:11:15 AM3 votes

I think it's important champions are defined by their individual nature rather than their faction. While the Shadow Isles does have a certain blue-green aura to it, that doesn't mean every champion from there has to be illuminated with it. Morde does need some new visuals, and if it fits with his seeming reanimated nature, then that inner glow might be less out of place. Aside from that, though, I can't really name anything that "defines" a Shadow Isle champion, nor do I want to be able to.

Knalxz11/15/2014, 10:15:21 AM3 votes

All I think Riot needs to do is update his running animation and give him a sickly green color from the cracks in his armor.

BAM!

Morde VU

Arby09911/15/2014, 9:30:11 AM2 votes

Don't give Riot any ideas about turning Morde into the same generic green as everything else Shadow Isles

Stars Shaper11/15/2014, 12:53:13 PM2 votes

Wait wait wait.

Morde has a mean to why he is different from others:

Timeline

This is both because of him being released before the SI came into play and because he was undead far before the SI collapsed into the undeath paradise they are now.

The improvements I would do is a Texture refinement to keep the massive mtal being characterization plus some spooky Black Mist flowing from the armor uncovered parts.

TheHobbits11/15/2014, 10:23:58 AM1 votes

I couldn't find the link to the image, sorry, but there has been rumor that they might be changing him into a more 'revenant' type model. Mord plays as a tanky mage, but looks a lot like a fighter. So it is possible that they may change him to look more like a "mage-type". This is all rumor however.

The image saw a tall armoured top half and an obvious shadow isles spirit lower half and wielding a very large mace. Don't know any other Shadow Isles related people that use a mace as a weapon do you? Me neither.

Tamur11/15/2014, 5:29:08 PM1 votes

I think Mordekaiser is the source of the reanimations or is connected to the source