In Regards to the New Mordekiser not having his Red Eyes

Angyal·May 27, 2019·3 votes·1,701 views

I have been seeing a couple threads talking about the new Morde and the fact that they liked him better when he had his red eyes. A solution to this would be that when Morde uses his ult, his eyes will glow red and have a trail on them when he moves. It wouldn't take away from the overall design of the new while being a homage to the old.

Any thoughts on this little thematic tweak?

5 Comments

radetariMay 27, 20195 votes

Some skins will have red eyes probably
Blue goes more with the Shadow Isles theme
It goes more with his armor
The ult already looks visually demanding so it would impact the performance more

GreenLoreMay 27, 20192 votes

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Some skins will have red eyes probably

Blue goes more with the Shadow Isles theme

It goes more with his armor

The ult already looks visually demanding so it would impact the performance more

The thing about 2 is that Mordekaisers undeath isn't related to the shadow isles. He was already undead before the shadow isles and thus there is no reason why his color scheme should be in line with the shadow isles.

mrmeddymanMay 28, 20192 votes

If his story isn't massively changed from before how he looked before is irrelevant. He goes to the Shadow Isles and draws power from the Black Mist even though he isn't beholdne to it. That could change his look dramatically.

Even then thematic cohesion is more important than a random detail like red eyes.

AngyalMay 28, 20191 votes

In my opinion, I thought the use of red eyes would have been a good way to project a more personal part of Morde.

The entire feeling of the Ult immediately made me think of the scene in Lord of the Rings where Frodo puts on the One Ring and was able to see the dark robed Nazgul for what they truly were, humans.

So my train of thought was to give him a visual flourish to himself while in the shadow realm. I was thinking about a very bright crown that draws the eye, or that he has a normal human face when in the shadow realm. I settled on the red eyes due to it being able to show his 'evil' nature while not being a nightmare to code into the game. ( Was thinking of Aatrox's banner wings) Hope I gave some clarity as to why I thought the evil red eyes were a good idea.

GreenLoreMay 28, 20191 votes

I feel like using this opportunity to mix up the color scheme of the shadow-isles roster would have been the better option to prevent it from becoming too monotone(i feel the void plagues the same problem), but thats just my opinion.

After all if you look at factions like Noxus or Demacia,you'll notice that even though these factions are color-coded, they still have some champs that don't follow the same color scheme.