User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Morgana, Fallen Angel/@comment-24597519-20150615035809/@comment-1330314-20150615041449

One of the above kit's goals is to allow Morgana to have both huge damage and great utility/CC in the right situations, which would ideally return her to her old mid lane viability while leaving her strength as a support at the same overall level. I think her kit naturally lends itself to both mage and support, and I want her to be great at either role, so my intention here isn't to move away from support Morgana or even really change her core playstyle that much. While it's true that, thematically, Black Shield as a protective ability sort of clashes with Morgana's theme as a corrupted angel, I think the ability works really well on her, and cements both her unique gameplay contribution and her combo functionality (she needs her shield to gain some measure of control when ulting the enemy team).