I've got to admit, that's a pretty awesome skin. I mean, not that I would buy it, but who knows? You can even get Ultimates from Mystery Skins, after all, if I remember right...

 

Because Bork active will always be broken on Zed.

 

I got Spirit Guard Udyr from a mystery. Was a good day.
I'm just wondering if DJ Sona will be on sale day one or not.

 

BY FAR


(6-0, to be exact)

 

Nemesis would probably be fine if you could veto that one retard on your team's selection that flies in the face of the comp you built for the other team--and actually provides the thing they need to succeed. But what do you expect from a simpleton with poor comprehension skills.

 

Always ends up battle of supports for me.

Except this one time some retard picked Yorrick for them because, I quote, 'No one is good at him. No one'.

Naturally he proceeded to go 25/3/8

 

Thoughts on the Mordekaiser changes?

 

Is it possible to dodge some spells with kata using w(Sinister Steel)? I am asking because I've seen kata use Sinister Steel to apparently dodge some Zed's spell in this video (it happens during fifth second). I tried to do it too, but failed.

 

Are you talking about Zed's E? That definitely hits her, you can see she gets slowed. It just did like no damage because the Zed looks to be very far behind and Kat already has the armor from Zhonya's.

 

Oh. Thank you.

 

Probably going to be the worst implemented and most character killing rework for the community that favors him since Cassiopeia.

As it is, if they went through with the changes they posted, Mordekaiser is dead to me.

 

They really screwed him over, yeah. Taking burst away from a champ who has no cc and no mobility, that's basically a death sentence. Especially when it's replaced with pretty weak shield mechanics.

 

What do you mean no mobility? He now gets to run slightly faster at one ally champ! Truly, his movement will know no bounds.

 

Or minion behind the target!(the more likely usage, due to laning)

 

I don't understand why they'd nerf/ change him. Was he even seeing high level play?

 

I'm guessing they are making him tankier and thus want to nerf damage to avoid "burst." Pretty stupid regardless, since he's hardly bursty without DFG unless their squishy is dumb enough to let you Q them.

 

If they're removing his burst they need to give him a CC, otherwise what role does he serve?

He has no engage.

 

They're (trying) to make his tankiness scale better, while reducing his damage (and his incentive to build damage) at all timings of the game. Obviously, as the board's most vocal player of Mordekaiser i'm doing figurative tons of math to see just how badly these things are going to play out.

What i've done first is lay out a probable build, and some general ideas for you to toss around as if Mordekaiser had never existed in any other state before. This is to allow people to see how much power he has now, as opposed to how much he was throwing around before.

The build (items)

Will of the Ancients: +80 AP, 10% CDR, +20 Spell Vamp
Liandri's Torment:+15 Magic Penetration, +50 AP, +300 HP, Burn passive
Rylai's Crystal Scepter: +100 AP, +400 HP, Slow (15/35%)
Sorcerer's Shoes: +15 Magic Penetration, +45 MS
+2 Items of Choice (Void Staff, Randuin's Omen, Spirit Visage, etc.)

Additional Stats: +230 AP, +700 HP, +30 Mpen, +10% CDR, +45 MS
Total Stats(@18 w/ items): 2715 HP, 230 AP, 30 Mpen, 10% CDR, +45 MS

So just to toss some numbers out for easy reference:

1. 4% (hitting any target with an unisolated Q or an E) is +108.6 shield
2. 8% (isolated Q) is +217.2 shield
3. 1% (hitting 1 target with W) is 27.15 shield per second
4. 2% (hitting 1 target with 2 W's, or an R ghost is out) is 54.3 shield a second
5. Maximum shield is 630.
6. Generation on a minion is reduced by 30% (.3)

So just to before/after damage and shield:

Pre/Post Q on an Isolated Champion (shield generated):
481 Damage (168)/ 379 Damage (217.2 shield)

*Note: The amount of damage (and shield) pre 5.4 would actually be lower because it is reduced by the enemies magic resistance

So just looking at an isolated Q, it looks like the rework is working as intended. More reliable shield, and less damage overall just as planned. However, there is a catch.

On multiple targets you lose significantly more shield.

On a 1 champion 3 minion E (a typical harass pattern)

Pre/ Post E damage on 1 champion and 3 minions:
1552 Damage (543 shield)/ 1460 damage (206.34 shield)

*Note: In this case, minions have no resistances to this build (~30 mpen), so while the shield would be mitigated to some degree (on one target), getting an E on 3 targets is 1164 damage (or 407 shield). Just to expand that point, the shield generated from E'ing just 3 minions before the changes is almost TWICE the total shield generated by hitting 3 minions and a champion after the changes.

At lower levels these issues become even worse. You basically HAVE to take E at level 1, since the other methods of generating shield and pushing the wave are more unreliable and unsafe (that being said, if you were a god you could get 864 damage out of a 6 second 6 minion W).

At level 1 you have a base health of 555. 4% of your base health (hitting a champion) is 22. Hitting a minion will give you ~6.66 shield per minion hit, so in an ideal world you could get 41.98 shield for a standard harass combo after the changes. Before them you would gain 98 shield.

I could belabor the point more, but I think the evidence speaks for itself. The only way these changes will come out ahead is if you remove any kind of priority to building damage, and go straight tank (building health+resistance items) but i'm not really sure that's a viable option. As pointed out many times in the past, the part of Mordekaiser that makes him strong is his combination of damage and tankiness. If you have no damage, but are much more tanky, why would anyone feel the need to kill you?

My conclusion: I'm hard pressed to see any way that these changes make him tankier (in terms of having more shield) except that it no longer decays, and it is not longer effected by your opponent's resistances. It may open more viable build paths for him, but probably only ones that are less engaging than currently.

If for some reason you got to 4,000 health (+~2100 health from base stats) a 4 champion E or Q is worth your full shield, and an isolated Q is worth half of your shield. Your W is generating 40 shield a second per target you are near, with a max of 10 targets (5 each) for 400 shield a second. A more likely scenario is 2 targets with 2 shields, so 160 shield a second. Is this tankier? Yes, but you're probably generating TOO much shield at that point. At base health (~2000 hp) you're still getting half of your shield out of your E/Q if it hits 4 champions, and 80 shield a second for hitting 2 targets with your W (or you and your shield buddy are hitting 1 target each).

This also relies on you hitting only champions, otherwise you will ALWAYS generate less than pre-5.4.

 

Today's CLG vs TSM game is going to be amazing.

Let's go CLG!