Oh shit. Just checked him out. That guy is absurd. Stunning towers for dives? Why not? Rek'Sai tunnels that everyone can use? Why not?

 

What's the use for his ulti? Cooldown resets? In game forced football huddle? Can't watch the clip atm, so I can't see AoE of the spell either. Is it Veigar stun size? Or more focused and narrow?

Q looks awesome too. A better version of the Vayne stun.

 

It looks to be about amumu ult size. Off the top of my head it could be used for: protecting allies from every ability under the sun, utterly ruining an assassin's or karthus' day, turret diving, keeping enemies in place for your allies to get there, disengage, engage and probably about a hundred other uses I havent though of.

 

I read it that it freezes everything, including abilities, and the size makes repositioning while waiting for a gank odd.

Stalling while waiting for reinforcements sounds good though. I'm waiting for some hilarious Baron steals too.

 

Wow. Riot ain't holding back.

 

The best part of the new champ is going to be how easy it is to troll with him. Should make for some good laughs. Sending enemy junglers into a waiting ambush will probably never get old. Although I wonder if you can target Karthus in his passive with his ult?

 

The same ult has been on carries in DOTA 2 and HoN forever (I think it was even in DOTA 1). They aren't breaking any new grounds here except making them all invincible for the duration.

 

Eh, what dota hero has that ult?

 

Voidwalker (dunno what they call him now) had something similar in OG Dota. He could move through freely though, allies couldn't.

 

Faceless Void might be what you mean? But people still take damage and everything in that, it's really not the same thing.

 

Voidwalker's ult, at least when I was playing him in DOTA, was basically an Amumu stun that didn't root him along with it. So when he stunned the whole team, he was also free to bash their faces in with passive + cranium basher for perma stun.

Anyways, this champ looks awesome. Also getting some Miyazaki vibes from his design. Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke come to mind.

 

Yeah, him. I said they were similar, not the same. Everything in the bubble but the caster freezes, there's just no invulnerability. Which was broken as fuck

 

Yes, this ult is kind of worse and in some ways better.

 

Wildfeather should rejoice. The changes to Mordekaiser are basically just straight buffs

 

I'm gonna be spinnin' dem decks all night tonight.

(kids, is that the right terminology? I'm talking about playing DJ Sona... )

 

Eh... Sort of. I can agree with the Q buff but the W change is just nonsense. And it FLies in the face of how I personally identify Mordekaiser (no cc, no ms buffs or dashes/blinks) but I'm happy overall. Except I don't want a whole bunch of people playing Mordekaiser now because with the buffs he is going to be even stronger than he was (and he was borderline OP already). Can you imagine getting a fed AADC and giving him 1000 extra life and 100 more AD?

I don't want Mordekaiser to be broken strong, in fact the changes I would have liked to see (more predictable Q expression, higher base ms and a shift of the R damage pattern to be more DOT heavy and less bursty) aren't indended to make him stronger numerically, but to give him consistency and counter play.

 

For anyone who hasn't seen it, the DJ Sona Ultimate Concert video is pretty fucking awesome.

 

Well, he's hardly broken strong even with these "buffs." At the very least, you know he won't be able to reach high levels of play, because even with the mobility increase, it's not really enough. His damage remains basically the same, though slightly more AOE due to the increase W area. He definitely is tankier though, even with similar build as before. All in all, I think it's a pretty good buff for Mordekaiser.

Also, if R damage pattern is shifted more toward DOT, it becomes even more useless than before. Any ADC that knows what they are doing always gets QSS against a Mordekaiser anyways, so making it more DOT reliant will just make it harder to kill the ADC. As for his base MS, it's actually pretty high already. It's about standard for most melee casters. (The increase Q range is far better imo).

 

You do know there are challenger Morde players(they play other things also) ? He does see play at a variety of levels, and as I promo into plat i'm not going to magically abandon him.

The point of changing the R is to make there more counter-play than currently, where the only reason to use your R is to execute someone instantly, or use it on the tank to get the most health and shield you can. Using it otherwise is just plain dumb.

 

? I'm not saying he doesn't see high level play. I play him too in Diamond... Which is why I know people in Diamond + will always get QSS, and shifting his damage more to DOT would be a pretty harsh nerf. I know you have some sensitive soft spot for Mordekaiser, but seriously you treat every discussion about him as some sort of attack on him.

Also, if you ever get to Diamond/Master/Challenger, you'll realize it's only lower elo people that cares about "meta picks" etc.