Talk:Morgana/@comment-5077844-20140723152831/@comment-3308937-20140728005757

She's a safe pick because Thresh, Braum, Blitz and Leona make up the most popular supports after her. They're so prevalent that you can safely pick her before the enemy picks their support because there's such a huge chance of them picking one of those 4 anyway instead of picking a Karma or Lulu or Zyra or Nami.

As I wrote on the VPBE page:

"The 3 most popular supports after Morg (who is #1 of all champs) are Thresh (#3), Leona (#7) and Blitz (#10), all of whom Morg counters and Braum, another favorable matchup for Morg, isn't that far off from this list. Thresh is in 33% of games, Leona is in 26%, Blitz is in 18% and Braum is in 14%. Compare that to Karma's 6.5% or Zyra's 4% and you'll see why Morg can be the generalist pick she is at the moment instead of the niche counter pick she used to be."

I do think Morg's kit is a little dated and could use some shifting around of power, like lowering black shield's duration while lowering the cooldown, to open up counterplay options, but I think her weaknesses (long cds on avoidable skills, short all-in range, poor poke) are already emphasized enough, people just don't want to make the effort to abuse them with champion picks and expect their generic tanky cc support to just function the same way it does against other squishy ranged supports.