Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-4636093-20150805144824

New Morde has shaken up so much understood things about League. I really REALLY hope he's strong. The first and most obvious being he's a melee who is best as the farmer in a duo lane which simply didn't exist at all before.

And the other is one which I'm really enthusiastic about is that his buildpath is true Hybrid. He scales with every stat in the game (except mana obviously) and scales especially well when he buys them all. There are other hybrids in the game... or at least there were, but they were almost all completely phased out, Evelynn is the only one left. Jax turned full AD with BotRK being released, Ezreal can be hybrid but that is more of a case of smudging AD and AP together and isn't as strong as going one or the other, same to Blitzcrank and Poppy, Akali, Nidalee and Katarina turned full AP. Etc.

But now new Morde is actually best built as a hybrid. Full AP doesn't do the same kind of damage as before, while full AD is way too glass and also misses out on a lot of utility packed into AP items like Rylai's.

Major things are changing and they're so awesome to think about.

I was worried that being a bot laner would be too problematic for him and he'd eat too much harass for free. And it's kinda true to an extent, but with his shield now having a minimum value and also getting a pre-6 heal in his kit means that he's so much more sustained when fighting. He actually fairs really well and with the right support can acually bully so many enemy duos.

My biggest worry now is that... well.... there are too many items he likes to buy. Having only 6 slots will be the biggest issue he has to face. He loves Trinity Force, he loves Rylai's, he loves Gunblade, he loves that new item which gives more base AD and a fuckton of Health, he loves X, Y and Z but can't buy them all, and the larger issue is that none of those items listed give CDR which is the stat he gets the biggest boost from.

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Oh yeah, also if there's a teamfight around Dragon Pit and Morde's team gets the dragon... that ghost does more damage than a champion in the ensuing brawl as long as you can micro it properly to do its maximum AoE damage.