August is still working on Morg's kit, which probably means they're still far from done. If he's asking for gameplay changes to make now, they'd have to design art for those changes, which probably means their art isn't done yet either. Everyone's strung thin waiting for their reworks and wanting them to be in the next patch, but I'm thinking we're not getting them 'til March.
The only gameplay change we heard about was something extra to her ultimate. If that's a shield, or some kind of defense boosting, that's handled by particle effects, and probably not going to need any model changes or animation changes, so that kind of work would be far faster to finish since it's simpler. There usually has been a release in February, so I would wager they are the release next month.
Sad news if it's true (that it's still so far off).
Personally I feel like they could still be next PBE cycle. It's a little strange for him to mention more Morgana kit changes now, but maybe he's reffering to smaller QoL changes, just a few more extra details before they ship the Twins?
Great, i still have time
I hope not. August answered on Morg Main Reddit page that Morgana is pretty much finished and just checking to see if there's more they can do for Morgana. Though this doesn't mean that we know when they will be released
I one trick morgana and she has several problems:
Q moves too slowly. It should be faster and thinner with a shorter duration, similar to lux. Right now it is only effective at short range or with a high cc team as a follow-up. It is 100% dodgeable in higher elos at long range.
Her W does damage over too long of a time period. It used to be great for wave clear, but right now 5 seconds to clear a wave is insanely slow compared to other mages and champions like talon/ekko. It needs to do its damage over a shorter time frame and perhaps do a little bit less damage.
Her ult requires you to either land a Q or play versus an immobile opponent. Good luck ever ulting people like Ezrael unless the Ezrael massively misplays.
In fact, her entire kit sucks for aggression. She is all about capitalizing on opponent's misplays. This makes her terrible against experienced opponents and brutal versus newer players. The problem is the current meta is all about shutting down your lane, hyper pushing, roaming, and dueling. She's good at roaming, but she can't pressure people out of a lane like a Leblanc can. This means she's not really viable as a midlaner.
I'd say she could be fixed by making her less Q reliant, but truthfully the Q is what defines a Morgana player's skill. I really wouldn't want to turn her into something brain-dead like Garen.
The next patch is valentines day, so then they'd be shown the patch after, mid feb to release end feb beginning march. That's expected sadly.
In answer to his question, 25 % passive
It was speculated after the last roadmap that they would come in March, but I don't think we expected to get Sylas as early as 9.2; everyone was expecting maybe 9.3 or 9.4. We know next patch is exclusively Heartbreakers, but I guess we'll have to see if we get anything early next week.
I'm guessing we might get them in 9.5, maybe 9.6 if there really are some big gameplay things in Morgana's new kit to work on. However, I think Riot wants to have the new support and the Mordekaiser rework out by mid-season, and maybe the new assassin too, so I'd say 9.5's a better bet.
I sincerely hope you're wrong. No offense, but I've been waiting for so long and I can't wait another month... Just give me Morg already please T_T
I doubt it. Mind you that yorick's e was replaced 2 weeks before PBE? so nothings impossible. And as I know, its just a minor QoL change(?) so its faster to implement.
I still bet 9.4 for them since its also the 10th anniversary of LOL, whilst, its a perfect opportunity to release them at feb 21 which is a thusday.
I can hear their teaser coming up next week.
Im trying to rank up kayle as much as I can before the rework comes out, Im hoping it comes at the end of February at least, I think that would give me plenty of time.
Im going to buy all her skins whilr im at it
Now that i think about it, are their skins and splash art going to updated too? Tbh, i would rather some of them not be updated (aside from their traditional) because some are actually rather nice, like aether wing kayle and bewitching morgana
[zombie-nunu-bummed]
Well we did only recently get Sylas (in 9.2), so it would make sense that they'd be more so far patch 9.5 or even 9.6. So another month isn't really long since they are just asking for any other small suggestions that they can maybe work into her. As for art though, I don't think they really plan on looking at anything that would need big art additions as they are pretty much done with that by now. They just want smaller tweaks they could maybe add to make a spell feel more rewarding or give it more counterplay.
Umm it's still January and you said we get it in March... one month from now? xD.
