About that King of Clubs Mordekaiser

Raid Boss Morde··10 votes·5,689 views
4/29 PBE Update

This champion is my main and has been for a long time now. Unfortunately, he gets passed up in a lot in skins :( it's been almost 4 years since he got one, and today, it's changed. After 4 years of waiting, you would think they could at least give him a 975 RP skin. Look at Skarner? He got a LEGENDARY skin after waiting 3 years, and then another 975 skin a few months later. I really don't want to complain with this, and I normally don't about new skins. I know Riot works hard on these, and I really appreciate the work! I just really hope you (Riot) consider a higher class skin for Mordekaiser at some point. Zilean had waited the longest without a skin, and he was... "rewarded" with a really good skin, a 975 RP skin. New recall, new particles, new model and textures! Let Mordekaiser get some sort of treatment on this skin. Even this 750 RP Talon skin has some slightly different particles on his W and R, and he's waited a long time without a skin.

ALSO

@Riot: If he's going to be in this card theme skin line, he should be the Ace or Spades!

Q - mACE of SPADES!

Another note: this skin line is probably going to have a combined splash art, right? Kind of sucks for Morde again, because then he'll have two different combined splash arts: Pentakill and Cards. He wants to be the center of attention for once, he told me!

11 Comments

Ironclad Dragon5 votes

Mordekaiser's model in this new skin has left me dumbfounded. I never expected such a, for a lack of a better term, historic-looking suit of armor in League of Legends. It actually looks awesome. He looks like a massive-set knight, not just an animate suit. I love it.

junglerboy161 votes

—And they managed to hide his pizza feet too!

The sad thing is it makes his other skins look that much more prehistoric...

Riotmoonstones5 votes

Hey InfiniteDelusion!

I totally get where you're coming from, as it's been quite a while since his last skin.

Mordekaiser falls into a similar boat as Evelynn - they've got old models and rigs that need to be updated. Rather than making players wait even longer for a Mordekaiser skin, we decided on a thematic that could accept the current limitations his current rig has (We did something similar with the 750 RP Evelynn skin.)

We did consider Mordekaiser as the Ace of Spades, but we ultimately decided upon King of Clubs because we felt that 'clubs' had a much stronger shape language for the weapon than 'spades' did.

Hope this clears somethings up!

DrCyanide1 votes

Will his particles get changed for the same reason Warden Nautilus's particles were changed? It looks odd on the PBE videos to see his original club shoot out of the ground, or his original head float over someone.

Riotmoonstones4 votes

He's not totally finished on PBE (as most content isn't), so you can expect to see something soon. :D

Raid Boss Morde3 votes

Thanks for the reply. I'm just frustrated and lightly salted about Mordekaiser being left so outdated, so sorry if I sounded harsh. Mordekaiser really needs to be on the list for the potential VUs soon, I think he deserves it quite a bit.

About the skin, these are very little changes, but make sense. Change the Q particles to match the weapon he has. It should shoot out little "club" maces. For his E, the weapon that comes out of the ground should be his new weapon! Then his ult could simply be his new helmet floating above them. Those are my only concerns for the skin at the moment.

Riotmoonstones3 votes

Not harsh at all, you're just being honest.

Since it's a 750 RP skin, we only change necessary particles, and we felt that in this case his (E) was the big issue here, rather than the other spells. We did discuss the whole, kit, though!

I appreciate your feedback! You've been great at articulating how you feel about the skin!

Eyrgos1 votes

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Since it's a 750 RP skin, we only change necessary particles, and we felt that in this case his (E) was the big issue here, rather than the other spells. We did discuss the whole, kit, though!

Please, just up the card line to 975 tier across the board & put it on hold until a newly appropriated release date can be set.

At least--Ezreal, Morde, & Syndra all need it.

Ezreal doesn't have one skin besides PFE with updated particles & he has a lot.

Syndra, it's barely over $2 USD difference & the skin desperately needs diamonds for the orb-models & a magenta-hue.

Morde, well everything's been said about that here--you guys ought to update it to 975.

Shaco's about the only one I don't really have an opinion on nor can I comprehend how he would benefit from a bump, personally... maybe others can chime in?

SettDownShutUp1 votes

Definite upvote for having updated particles and maybe a recall. But I disagree completely on the combined splash. Love me some new wallpapers.

Raid Boss Morde1 votes

The only reason I don't like the combine clash for Morde is that he's already had one; Pentakill Mordrkaiser. I'm not saying combined ones are bad, but it's been 4 years since Mordekaiser has had is OWN splash art. One reason I've been looking forward to a new skin for him is for the new splash art. I want a new wallpaper... but I would like him to the focus, not a bunch of other champs that I don't care about. It's sorta like Xerath in his new skin. He's in the back, and is hardly in the splash art, but he's at least had recent skins that showcase him; Scorched Earth Xerath.

It really doesn't matter, it is just a splash art, but It would be nice for him to have his own individual one.

Cosmosaurus1 votes

I have a feeling he's gonna get particles, the base ones just won't look good with this skin.

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