Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-6000413-20140325120127

I love Morde and love the early laning dominance you can achieve with him if the enemy jungler spends his time elsewhere, but his mid-late game is awful in most team compositions: his burst (ranged) is really low, his melee burst is decent at most, his sustained damage suffers from scaling with ap: nice but not enough to outdamage an AD bruiser. His tankyness is decent, his only positive side, but scales (although poorly) with damage.

I agree that not every champion needs to be mobile and have good cc, but the others should compensate for that. Morde doesn't compensate enough. Try to duel Olaf, Trynda, Fiddle, Jax... They just deal so much more damage, have a comparable sustain, more cc and gap-closing abilities. Take olaf: lower harass, comparable burst, more sustained damage, comparable sustain, cc resistance, some cc. Morde is better for a few minutes, in lane, among his minions, without jungler.

After that, he simply dies. With ulti + ignite, and only with that, he might have a chance, once in while, to kill Olaf, but he will provbably escape since no cc and no gap-closing, but olaf has a lot of chances to kill Morde, who will not escape because of axes and olaf's speed.

TL;DR: Olaf (and other champs) just surpass him in nearly every aspect, from cc to mobility to sustain to burst to tankyness and even in the aspects where Morde is at an advantage, that's small and gets useless because of his kit. He needs something  to make up for that.