Talk:VPBE/@comment-24951773-20150213164034/@comment-24951773-20150213233614

I understand what Riot is trying to do. I have been playing since before S1, and played morde as stated. In fact, I have always played him that way. You cant compare him in that time to him the current meta now. Now is the meta of High mobility and burst assassins. If he has no way of disabling his enemies, no way of sticking to them, no way of chasing them down, and no way of forcing them to attack him in teamfights, he will run around spamming spells, all the while not doing enough damage to save his team from being shredded by Zed, Akali, Ahri, Nidalee, Riven, or any other assassin capable of wiping a team right now.

The way they want you to play morde is to hope that the enemy is stupid enough to engage you or find themselves within your short range of attack. That's a terrible strategy, to hope that the enemy makes mistakes. Even in teamfights, doesn't matter how tanky he is if he cant do anything with it. He doesn't have a taunt like shen or rammus. He doesn't have an aeo disable like Alistar. He doesn't even have the same level of utility as other AP toplaners like Rumble and Maoki and Naut as far as their ults go. He just wont have the teamfight presence that they want him to have.

I want old morde back as much as anybody. That was the time that he became my favorite champ. But times change. The metagame changes.

I used to love building Force of Nature and Rylais on him, because the movespeed and slow debuff gave him PRESENCE. If he maged to E you even once, it was pretty much over for you. He was gonna keep slowing you, keeping pace with you, and eventually beat you to death with that big mace. But now, all the most popular champs have dashes to get away. And now Force of Nature is gone. Rylais still works good on him though.

As I stated, it may be that I am totally wrong, as was the case with ahri.