Riot, please go the extra mile with Morde's VGU and make his Pentakill Skin a legendary

Malicious Metal··91 votes·3,661 views

Now, I'd be willing to pay an ultimate skin price for a legendary Mordekaiser skin BUT this isn't just about Morde lacking a 1850 skin.

With Morde's rework his title was changed to "The Iron Revenant" but the community still sees the "Master of Metal" theme as one of his most defining features. I agree with Riot that making him "The Master of Metal" would simply result in him being a caricature of a champion as his entire identity would be nothing more but a gimmick.

But this silliness is what made Mordekaiser so very charming in the first place and removing it from his character wouldn't exactly be received well by a lot of people. So, how about we find the perfect middle ground that would allow the narrative Team to deliver on the Iron Revenant we deserve while also keeping an old piece of League history alive through a skin?

It would be something akin to a Traditional Skin or Captain Gangplank as it preserves something cool about a champion BUT embraces it and pushes it to the limit as a skin that actually works without being just a different version of the champion's base skin.

Giving him ALL the References and giving him sick metal-themed particles would truly be befitting such an old champion as Mordekaiser and be the perfect farewell to his old self when his VGU finally comes around. Not to mention his skin catalog being rather "meh" and lacking any skins with new particles and VO despite him being one of the oldest champions in the game.

So, how about you just embrace the Master of Metal and give him the skin he deserves when it's time to say farewell to pizza feet and the silliness that's the current Mordekaiser?

60 Comments

Melledoneus21 votes

Oh, come off it. You just want a free legendary skin. :)

Malicious Metal16 votes

Free? I paid 975 rp for it :^)

Melledoneus4 votes

How do I know you didn't just steal it from Riot's vaults? Because that would be METAL.

Ralanr2 votes

Is stealing really metal? Unless he stole it through pure force as opposed to the stealthy approach.

Melledoneus1 votes

I bet he just broke open a wall and snatched it.

Malicious Metal4 votes

Now that's just barbaric.

A real revenant would just rip the souls out of the guards and let them serve you your prize on a silver platter.

Melledoneus1 votes

But working at Riot's skin team, you'd think with how hard they work they don't have souls anymore.

dragon1xx12 votes

1850?! dafuq, are we back in beta now? Please tell me you meant 1820....

Nyxceris1 votes

Prices may be different in different regions

Sahn Uzal10 votes

Not many people are able to ask for their main to get a legendary skin and make it sound completely reasonable. Good job sir :^)

In seriousness, you do bring up some fair points that I can't disagree with, take my upvote c:

Shaponja1 votes

And wtf could be made into a legendary from Morde? Pretty basic abilities with not much detail

Sahn Uzal3 votes

This is post VGU talk. He might have a lot more particles after that.

Mystic Delibird1 votes

A legendary for mord could have way more stuff than a ultimate for Ezreal. Just depends on the theme and how you handle things, it could work, the only champion I could see there being an issue making a Legendary for would be Xin.

L Rayquaza1 votes

i saw one person working on a project karthus that had the ult being a three lined swirly lock on satellite laser, looked sick

Keevalroy4 votes

Giving him ALL the References

Are you talking like new interactions with champions as well?

For example, interactions kinda like:

Yorick I hear gravediggers are really into Soilwork.

Shaco I'm the real Master of Puppets...

Swain I have a Masterplan even you won't see coming.

Brand (something about In Flames)

etc. you get the idea.

Malicious Metal4 votes

Lux You're just a Rainbow in the Dark Azir But the castles crumbled and you're left with just a name; Where's your crown King Nothing? TwistedFate The only card I need is the Ace of Spades

Ralanr2 votes

Half way through I realized you were referencing metal songs. I don't listen to enough metal to compete. Still doing some.

Poppy: Nice weapon. Poor choice in wielder.

Sion: A failed product of a weak empire.

Urgot: Another enemy to be broken.

Any void creature: A legion of monsters? I've been needing a challenge.

Kalista: Not even the vengful one can stop me.

Tryndamere: Who taught you how to hate? Cause you're terrible at it.

Keevalroy3 votes

I'll try and help and include some songs of varying genres for the chance that something similar might sound appealing. The more rock/metal fans in the world, the better.

Poppy Nice weapon, how does the Hammerfall? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkmlujV-TvU

Sion Where did you come from? Zombie Inc.? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvHEfanzRXw

Urgot You are truly Wretched and Divine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvRhzYDk9yE

Kalista Is vengeance truly yours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1vzo7Jvpw

Tryndamere ....umm...nothing off the top of my head. Someone halp meh.

Edit: Wait...I don't know why I didn't see Disturbed in your comment...I'm a failure as a fan.

http://i.imgur.com/IWcT8Fb.jpg

Malicious Metal4 votes

All 'dem disturbed references

Immortalized no less.

Veltox3 votes

Tbh Master of metal sounds a lot better than Iron Revenant. Why did they change it again?

Weiner the Pooh8 votes

To better fit the lore they gave him. In it, which is much darker darker and better fits the rest of the Shadow Isle lore, The Iron Revenant makes a lot more sense than The Master of Metal.

Sahn Uzal3 votes

Remember how they wanted to call him the lord of death?.... Yeah...

Ralanr7 votes

Oh that was a fun moment in boards history.

Mordekaiser: The Mordekaiser.

Fun times.

Remlap12233 votes

Don't worry. They did it with Karthus, I'm sure Brazil's favorite champion is going to get the same treatment.

Nickfer25103 votes

I see no reason why Pentakill Morde should be made a legendary skin besides "he doesn't have one" and "the skin fits the the most with his theme so it should be remade into a legendary skin" , which are silly reasons to say the least. It doesn't even make sense when compared to the other members of Pentakill. Why should only More's skin be remade and not the other members? It would be really mismatched for just the leader to have all that resources put into him. If the other champions got their Pentakill skins remade as well (not necessarily be put into legendary status), then it would make sense.

cyberchade6 votes

in the lore of Pentakill Morde is the leader

Nickfer25101 votes

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in the lore of Pentakill Morde is the leader

Well then, my mistake. I got vocalist and leader mixed up. I'll edit my comment to remove that.

Bladerunner77773 votes

"Riot pls give special service to my main"

Nickfer25102 votes

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"Riot pls give special service to my main"

Agreed, but just because he completely ignored the other members of Pentakill

MavenSong2 votes

I agree, he always rubbed off as the leader so it'd be cool... but problem is people will snatch it up before the price change. Maybe they could make an Updated new seperate version of it that has a ton more bells and whistles?... but then people would complain its a money grab... idk sod if i know. but it'd be cool.

Malicious Metal10 votes

You got Captain GP for free if you played him during the event^^ They wouldn't be losing a lot of money if they put a 50% discount on it during some promotion of sorts.

Pentakill Album 2? Now with a discounted Pentakill Mordekaiser skin!

MavenSong2 votes

except captain GP at the time was his classic and free as is. Its kindasortanot a traditional skin basically not really.

L Rayquaza2 votes

they wanted current GP to be GP and for captain to be a new skin, they just revealed it in an epic way

Dr Poro3 votes

Thanks for mentioning this, I didn't even realize that I had a gangplank skin!

MorgManBasher2 votes

I kinda really like how Morde is currently tbh, I hope they don't completely change him. Love controling dragons. Love the stupid massive heals from W and Ult. Love the crazy 3rd q damage and THAT SOUND when smacking someone. The E shield is nice, but probably the most boring part of his kit. Nice to have a range poke though.

VU wise though, yeah I hope they make him look badass in all his skins because right now his only good skin is King Morde.

Mordepool2 votes

Not sure what you mean by Controlling dragon

It Hertz When IP1 votes

You don't control a dragon, you just point it in a certain direction and get out of the way.

Mordepool2 votes

If you've played morde at all you would know that currently both Mordes ghosts/dragon are broken &unresponsive. Flat out ignore commands 80% of the time and if you do get it to follow a command after 3 seconds it will get distracted

Its a Big problem functionality isnt there right now

Mordepool1 votes

Ever heard of using Kappa to add a sarcastic tone to your texts Apparently not

Malicious Metal5 votes

You don't even mention Iron Man?! Blasphemous!

Qiy4na2 votes

Then i suppose Eve should get one as well seeing as she has no particle effects and is waiting for a VGU?

Drugoth2 votes

Would love to see all the Pentakill skins in the same team and have them play a concert when they all do the dance emote together. Kind of like if 3 people dance in front of the spider in twisted treeline but 100% cooler!

Mistress Madoka1 votes

Imean right now Both Karth and Yorick have parts of Lightbringer in their Dance Emote. I'd love to see Morde and Olaf and Sona get some Lightbringer action

Drugoth2 votes

I bet you anything Riot actually already has this planned and they're trying their best not to give it away lol.

Mistress Madoka1 votes

Imean if they didn't want it to be obvious they'd just release it as an update to all of them at once

MonkeyMadness2 votes

Wut? If you do that everyone will buy the cheap skin knowing it will get a substantial boost in value and riot will "lose" money. Don't come between riot and their money. Clearly they care about nothing else.

EROTIC RAID BOSS1 votes

I don't think they'd ever change the price or quality of a skin in that way.

I'm sure they could come up with a different theme for him for a legendary skin someday. but first they gotta do the vgu in the first place. And I don't think they really need a full legendary version of pentakill morde to do like a heavy metal theme that's cool

Decrit1 votes

Dude, cmon. No.

It makes no sense for them to update for free a skin which was already paid for a given price. it is not even cool for other people who want to play it and then see the price tag increased shortly after.

And i say this while i possess Pentakill Mordekaiser already.

Rather, why don' t you propose something different, like skin upgrades? something similar to chromas, maybe additional audio packs? That would be far more fitting not only the thematic but also for how they sell and update skins. Or add to the game Pentakill minions that spawn when you have X pentakill skins like they do already with some lines. That would be far better as an upgrade rather making Pentakill Morde legendary.

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