Did my own visual/gameplay concept of the eventual Morgana update just for fun

https://orig00.deviantart.net/498c/f/2018/219/b/0/morgana_by_swooningandfalling-dcjg3n7.png

Passive, Soul Siphon: First auto against enemies under CC deals bonus magic damage and siphons HP, increasing her maximum health permanently. Q, Dark Binding: (combines q and w) Fires a bolt of dark energy that roots the first target hit, dispersed magic cascades past them leaving a trail of tormented soil that deals damage per second increasing based on missing health. W, Respite Veil: First press creates a gradually expanding field of magic that negates CC for allies within; second press closes field and damages enemies inside. E, Black Shield: grants a shield against magic damage, which also radiates dark energy dealing damage per second in a small radius. Shield is charged by magic damage dealt. R, Soul Shackles: Same, except the second effect pulls enemies slowly into Morgana rather than just stunning them.

The general idea behind this kit concept is to make Morgana more of a mid-champion as well as give her more to do/more agency.

• Her sustain is condensed into her passive, which provides an additional damage source to her kit. Also since she wants to get close to everybody, the health-boosting aspect makes sense in that way as well as thematically. To me anyway.

• By combining Dark Binding with Tormented Soil, she's making a choice between using Q for more effective waveclear or using it to engage/harass. As she is now, she presses W and walks away. Best case scenario, she hits a champion in front of some minions with it.

• Respite Veil separates the CC immunity from Black Shield and makes it something you don't just slap on somebody and ignore. It stages a battlefield for Morgana and her allies, signalling to them that this is a relatively safe spot and to the enemies that they should hold off. On the other hand, if your allies are all grouped in there, that gives the enemy an opportunity for a big counter-attack. Decisions. If cast in the middle of a fight, its effectiveness is less guaranteed because it starts small. Obviously strong as hell tho so would need to be gated by a long cooldown. It can be dispelled quickly for AoE dmg, which I imagined would be %maxHealth-based but maybe it should just be flat.

• Black Shield's pretty easy to get. I wasn't sure if the strength of the shield should be charged up by damage dealt, similar to how Athene's Unholy Grail works; or if it has a set strength that continuously replenishes itself while she's dealing dmg until it is destroyed. I like the former.

• Soul Shackles is the same, except I thought pulling them in made more sense thematically.

Overall a stronger and more varied kit, but I think reducing the duration of her CCs would free up her power budget to justify it and be healthier and more fun in general. Soul Shackles having a drag instead of a CC makes a duration-reduction less of an issue. The number of AoE dmg sources seems like a lot, but I think they're situational enough and easy to balance with numbers. W and E I didn't envision providing a huge source of dmg except in a prolonged and ideal encounter. W can be further balanced by its CD and min-max radius. E is dependent on the recipient being near enemies. If it's Morgana then that obviously suits her ideal attack paradigm.

I imagined she would build Grasp because of how it synergizes with the passive, and how the rest of the resolve tree kind of fits her attack plan. Figured Rylai's would be core for her. And Liandry's. Lich Bane for gimmicky fun maybe? She doesn't have a ton of CC in her kit but all of the AoE would really benefit from Rylai's.

I see her being more of a tanky mage who really has to put herself at risk to maximize her dmg output, whose abilities have a wide and clear distinction between their best-case scenarios and their eh scenarios.

That's it! This was fun and I wanted to share it. So there you go.