User blog comment:Willbachbakal/(Champion Rework) Morgana, Fallen Angel/@comment-24420226-20150616003959/@comment-1330314-20150616020221

It's true that Morgana's cooldowns are extremely long, but I think that's justified, considering all of her abilities have effects on really long durations. It's also true that Tormented Soil deals a lot of damage if you stand in it for the full duration, but that's also assuming your target will stand in the same approximate location for five seconds, something that is practically impossible to accomplish even with Morgana's root and stun. With that in perspective, the initial base damage on her W is fairly low, and her overall base damage has been pretty severely nerfed over her past two changes in V5.9 and V4.14. She can still delete squishies in the late game with a Q + W + ult combo (and perhaps a bit too well, which is partly why I reduced the base damage and root duration on Dark Binding), but she struggles to deal meaningful damage with her W most of the time.