User blog comment:Doc Tam/Meridith, the Lover's Vengeance/@comment-4434378-20120824221253/@comment-4434378-20120824221915

About the W:

This was the starting point for the champion. "Morgana's shield is really good for carries, but she's the only one that gets it, what if this was fixed?". My hope is that she could function somewhat like Olaf, but be more about graceful killing than Olaf's Vikingness.

Morgana's shield is OP, straight up. Its a cheap spell that scales with her damage stat has huge base values and blocks CC. Oh and she can throw it onto ANY champion. Nunu, Katarina, Tryndamere, Fiora...

Unlike Morgana you probably won't be building AP, even then I kept the base damage lower, and its only castable on yourself. This is the reason for the cleanse, since you make one bad mistake and your done, whereas if its Morg's carry who makes a mistake they only have to eat one spell if she's bad. The CD is a bit lower and it has a cleanse, that's your advantage. And yes she could build a QSS but that would only help against Malz/WW/Skarner.