Talk:Morgana/@comment-20434720-20140813215123/@comment-20434720-20140814235921

Let me just pick one of your examples: Malzahar. As Malzahar, you cannot get out of range of Morgana's ult in any way. At all. Your only movement-inhibiting CC is a channel that requires you to stand still. So even without the black shield, you still have no choice but to take the full combo (or flash). So your only choice is to try to 100-0 her before those 3 seconds are up, and given that if you start your ult even one second late it'll get interrupted, I wouldn't be too confident in that (and honestly 2 voidlings up in lane is a very rare occurrence, if you try maintaining that you will go out of mana extremely quickly, regardless of E chaining and doran's rings). Especially if Morg has half a brain and can sidestep the Q, leaving the black shield up to ignore the suppress.

It's a matchup where the burden of good playing lies 100% on Malzahar. Because IF you manage to land all your abilities as Malzahar, you will still only go even on damage. You lose the battle of attrition, you lose the poke battle, you lose the push battle, you're easier to gank, and you have an at-best-equal-to all-in.

Furthermore, Morgana's black shield has a 0.7 AP ratio. That's higher than Brand W, higher than Syndra Q, higher than any single ability from Lux/Xerath/Ziggs, especially after you take into account MR.

Finally, consider that only the cast range of Morgana's ult is 600. The leash range is 1050. Meaning she CAN and WILL use her ult at max range. By comparison, Malzahar's E is 650 range, so Morgana can stand in the middle of the minion wave and deny you any farm.