Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-5224716-20150829192903/@comment-26001789-20150830002344

Because if you keep him CC-less but have him do a load of damage you have to 100% build items that allow him to stick to target. Things such as Rylai, Dead Man's Plate and Gunblade. When your role on a Teamcomp is just to waveclear and siege turrets with DragonForce and do lots of damage, you don't have any need to build items such as those and you can just go for damage items such as TriForce, Steraks and just build Gunblade for it's mix of stats and passives, not so much for the active portion.

That's also the idea of his W. If you make the actual W selfcastable, what is the point of it? You lose plenty of damage from it(since you can't overlap it with a partner) and you don't have any MovSpd bonus to follow up on a partner to get into the fray and fight(nor the inverse when you wanna fight and have a guy follow you for support). Since the shield doesn't give free resistances anymore thanks to having an active portion where you heal up, I don't see how making his W self-castable is going to make him suddendly Solo-Laning besides having a pseudo-waveclear option. He is still gonna need of slowing and MovSpd items like before and will not be as effective as a pure damage dealer because of this.

CC-Less fighters are fine as long as they have a way to enter the fight right away, even if they all they have is a dash or movspd(Like Shyvana & Garen). Mordekaiser has none. He either buys things that make him go really fast or he buys items that make his opponents run really slow. Shyvana can keep up with his opponents with Dragon's Descent and Burnout, the same way Garen can keep up with Decisive strike. Unless Mordekaiser gets free MovSpd from selfcasting W(only that instead of 70 it's, say, 35). But then again, at that point, I also still think that he will be better in the BotLane because all BotLaner Carries have to do is clear waves and do damage, something Mordekaiser is happy to do.

So Have W SelfCast and give half the MovSpd and Heal?