User blog comment:Echonaut/What Mordekaiser Needs/@comment-8379657-20130717114139

Mordekaiser is designed like that: A walking fortress with with good AoE damage, sustained and bursty, a passive that gives him more tankiness the more damage he does and arguably one of the best ultimates in the entire game. Therefore he is the only champion that has NO cc, NO gapcloser and NO escape, not even a movement speed modifier.

Since he was last used in competitive play, he saw no changes at all. The only thing that changed his viability is the shift of the meta. In my opinion, he is still far from underpowered and even rather small changes to his kit could make him ridicolously overpowered. I like Morde in his current state and I don't think you need to change anything about him to bring him back to competitive play. Some item changes would be enough i guess. (Bringing back FoN e.g. would be one step in this direction)

By the way, I level up W second most of the time, like many pros do too. It's situational, really.