Talk:VPBE/@comment-24951773-20150214212627/@comment-24951773-20150215214315

Riot changed the shield to scale with HP and lowered his base spell damage and AP ratios because they don't want people to build morde like a burst mage anymore. Riot isn't necessarily making morde tanky, they're making it so that the only way to really play him now is to build him tanky. If you build morde tanky, his shield will be ridiculous. The only problem with this is that morde lacks the utility of other AP bruisers. Why put a morde in the top lane when there are other tanky AP toplaners like Rumble, Gragas, and Mao, with each bringing far more to the teamfight than morde ever could.

If you build damage over hp/resistance on new morde, you are certainly going to have a bad time.

I'm not super bothered by these changes to morde, as Emptylord previously mentioned, they want to revert morde to how he used to be built/played, which is fine be me, as that was when Morde became my favorite champ. However, it won't work too well (I think) in the new meta, and I don't see his pick-rate improving any time soon.

Because Morde is my favorite champ, I'm just glad to see him get some attention.