LoL General Mk2 - My boots, they drop wards!

[Venec]

I would love to have an option to kick assholes from team select as team captain or through collective vote, because seriously fuck some people.

[Omega Supreme]

http://extra-credits.net/episodes/perfect-imbalance/

Interesting monologue about perfect imbalance and how League has it down pat.

[Nobody_Holme]

I would love to have an option to kick assholes from team select as team captain or through collective vote, because seriously fuck some people.

Problem is, sometimes its 4 arseholes and one you, and you just know :riot: would end up giving it a penalty.

[Venec]

I would love to have an option to kick assholes from team select as team captain or through collective vote, because seriously fuck some people.

Problem is, sometimes its 4 arseholes and one you, and you just know :riot: would end up giving it a penalty.

I prefer being kicked by arsehole from a game than playing with him, even with penalty.

Also original Vlad artwork:

  Spoiler:

Is it me, or it's way superior to the current one?

[Marlona Sky]

Anyone ever see a Blitz go mid?

[FourFiftyFour]

I would love to have an option to kick assholes from team select as team captain or through collective vote, because seriously fuck some people.

I've thought about this as well. I think there should just be an option for a team reshuffle. Everyone votes and the team is returned to solo queue with no chance of being matched with each other again immediately.

[DrunkenOne]

#1 morde build is boots +3, hextech revolver, sorc boots, kage pick, wota, dfg, deathcap. Fuck rylais unless your team has like 0 cc. Your purpose is lol burst damage which turns a fight into a 6v4, and rylais is cost inefficient especially since morde has free health from his shield. Also assuming you are mid (why would you ever play morde top?), ward their wraiths, push lane to turret, go steal wraiths. Enemy wraiths down and lane pushed? Go take your wraiths. Easily can have 200+ CS at 20m doing that.

If you are vs morde, just go aggressive on him early on when his shield is weak and he has no revolver. Delaying his revolver by forcing him to recall before he gets gold for one majorly impacts his early and mid game, which makes him unable to snowball. Also, jungle ganks rape morde as he has no escape and pushes.

[Zekk Pacus]

Derp read post properly. Coming soon with content.

[Zekk Pacus]

About the build, though:

1) Kage's - why? It gives very little AP and you are, by your own admission, going to be farming like a boss. Kages takes about 17min to even pay for itself and you should have in the region of 200cs by 20mins, so it's a drop in the ocean. Other than a tiny chunk of AP and building into an item Morde doesn't need, it's not giving you any stats you want.
2) Rylais - yes. Always Rylais. I don't know what level you're at but Morde is VERY prone to getting kited even with Rylais - without, I would just laugh at him all day long. It also gives you HP which you need - shield is a decent amount of free HP but if you get stunned you can't charge shield and grats you're dead.
3) DFG - you don't need the nuke. At least you shouldn't need it. If their team is stacking health to the point that you can't burst someone maybe but I would say it's very low on your list, a full combo should ALWAYS be able to burst a carry down full to dead.

Really your build is not that great, you're stacking flat AP which makes you a nuke caster, but tons of other casters can do that just as well whilst also being more gank resilient and bringing CC to team. Yes you have ult but if you get stunned you're complete deadweight, and your kit means you can't kite in a teamfight unlike Ahri or Cassio who can dart in and out of fight and cast nukes on cooldown whilst evading.

Boots + 3 I agree. Hextech Revolver, yes rush this by all means. Then you diverge a little bit - you basically want to have Rylais, Sorcs and Abyssal at some point soon. Which order you get them in is up to you. From there you can either turn revolver into wota or get gunblade - I kind of like gunblade on Morde even with the nerfed stats, wota also got nerfed so it's less omfgop and gun gives you an extra slow. Then you get Zhonya's and a utility item - Lich Bane is always good. You waste the mana but you gain the move speed and your Q will absolutely destroy single targets.

Basically Morde needs combo of stats to turn into the rapetrain he becomes, flat AP isn't enough because you will get stunned and raped before you can charge any shield.

[DrunkenOne]

I'm ~1500 elo. Again, why do you need rylais? The slow is good but you pay too much for it and the AP/HP is inefficient for the cost. Sure, Morde gets kited, but who cares? During laning phase you should be afk farming, kills are a bonus. With a fast DFG instead of rylais, they will be dead if they drop below like 3/4 health if you flash combo them, so who cares about not having cc? After laning phase, kiting doesn't matter as much since in team fights you will presumably have people on your team with cc who lock down targets for you to nuke. A fast rylais simply delays DFG and deathcap, which you need ASAP to carry hard midgame. And lol @ not buying DFG, it is core on morde and allows you to combo anyone not just a squishy. Bruiser out of position? GG. Your entire purpose is immediately turning a fight into 6v4, why wouldn't you buy an item that helps you immediately do that from long range? You aren't always going to be able to run up and Q them to do your whole combo, often you need to DFG + r + e + ignite from range.

Also I see you don't mention deathcap?? Do you not get one? How are you bursting carries down when you have no deathcap?

Edit: top guide on solomid has same/similar build as me tho i use spellvamp quints and flat mr blues: http://solomid.net/guides.php?g=22982

Edit2: I also don't main morde or anything and have never played him ranked, but hes a fun pubstomper in normals

[FourFiftyFour]

Just had a 75 minute game.

We lost at the very end while defending nexus as our tryn was backdooring their nexus.

They killed ours with 2 hits left on theirs.

This has restored my faith in the game.

[DrunkenOne]

Is WW no longer a ban at 1500+ elo? Haven't played ranked in a while and now been doing placement matches on my alt and haven't seen a ban yet, mostly been just shen/malph/morg/jaxand some combo of kass/shaco/noct/darius/tf. This is very relevant to my interests

[brag][/brag]

On a similar note, everyone in placement matches are awful. Last 3 games I guess it couldnt find anyone to match me with due to my high elo so it was a 5m queue and then had me against ~1400 ppl with 500+ games and random 1250 elo ppl who were 4-3 in placement. Dat matchmaking.

[Nicho Void]

I never see him banned anymore.

On another note, I'm back in the downward spiral. Just played a game where firstpick demanded support TF. Predictable result.

[Omega Supreme]

New Skins in the Store

Mythic Cassiopeia
Muay Thai Lee Sin


PvP.net v1.63

New Matchmaking Upgrades
Players who are under Level 30 are far less likely to face Level 30s
Greatly improved matchmaking for premade groups of 4
Matchmaking improved for highly skilled players trying to queue with lower skilled friends
Matchmaking in Ranked Solo/Duo Queue now restricts the number of duo queue pairings on each team to 1 per team
Improved initial seeding for Ranked Teams composed of skilled Ranked Solo/Duo players
Summoner Profiles now display the highest Ranked Team rating, instead of Arranged Team ratings


League of Legends v1.0.0.143
Zyra, Rise of the Thorns

Pending the completion of some further testing on PBE, Zyra will be released at a future date.


Akali

Fixed: Mark of the Assassin's tooltip now states the correct Energy return amount


Amumu

Fixed: Despair now displays a range indicator when hovered over


Corki

Fixed: Valkyrie's targeting indicator now scales with distance from Corki


Evelynn (Remade)

Shadow Walk (Passive)
Evelynn fades away into the shadows. She can only be seen by nearby enemy Champions or true sight
While in stealth, Evelynn regenerates 1% of her max Mana every second
Casting spells, taking damage, or dealing damage unstealths Evelynn for 8 seconds
Hate Spike
19/23/27/31/35 Mana, 1.5 second Cooldown
Evelynn fires a line of spikes through a nearby enemy, dealing 40/60/80/100/120 (+0.45 Ability Power) (+0.4 bonus Attack Damage) magic damage to all enemies in its path
Hate Spike prioritizes what Evelynn has attacked recently
Dark Frenzy
No Cost, 20 second Cooldown
Passive: Evelynn's spell hits on enemy Champions grant her 4/8/12/16/20 Movement Speed for 3 seconds (effect stacks up to 4 times)
Active: Evelynn removes all slows affecting her and gains 30/40/50/60/70% Movement Speed for 3 seconds
Champion kills and assists refresh Dark Frenzy's cooldown
Ravage
50/55/60/65/70 Mana, 9 second Cooldown
Evelynn slashes a target enemy 2 times, dealing 35/60/85/110/135 (+0.5 Ability Power) (+0.4 bonus Attack Damage) magic damage with each strike
Evelynn then gains 60/75/90/105/120% Attack Speed for 3 seconds
Agony's Embrace
100 Mana, 150/120/90 second Cooldown
Evelynn impales all enemies in the targeted area, dealing 15/20/25% (+1% per 50 Ability Power) of their maximum Health in magic damage and slowing their Movement Speed by 30/50/70% for 2 seconds
Evelynn siphons their pain, gaining a 150/225/300 health shield for each enemy Champion hit which lasts up to 6 seconds


Gangplank

Parrrley
Now refunds half the mana cost if Parrrley kills the target


Garen

Perseverance
Added a buff timer to show when Perseverance will reactivate


Gragas

Fixed: Body Slam no longer stops when encountering created terrain (ex: Anivia's Crystallize)


Graves

Smokescreen
Sight reduction range reduced to 675 from 800


Jax

Fixed: Counter Strike's dodge component now works properly against Shen


Kassadin

Riftwalk
Damage reduced to 60/70/80 from 60/90/120
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.8 from 0.5


Malphite

Ground Slam
Armor ratio reduced to 30% from 50%
Now has a 0.2 Ability Power ratio
Attack Speed reduction duration reduced to 3 seconds from 4


Malzahar

Summon Voidling (Passive)
Voidlings prioritize enemies Malzahar is autoattacking if Malefic visions isn't present
Voidling pathing and general AI improved
Voidlings will now hide in brush and won't attack if Malzahar is in brush and not in combat
Voidling dance animation added
Call of the Void
Delay is now consistent at 0.6 seconds
Now deals damage in a single hit - rather than two separate hits
Now grants vision along the entire line path - rather than only at the two end points
Now deals damage to units surrounding the end points
Null Zone
Cast time removed - Malzahar may now cast this ability while moving
Damage now starts 0.25 seconds after casting the ability
Nether Grasp
Malzahar ignores orders that would cancel his ultimate within the first 0.5 seconds of Nether Grasp
Voidlings prioritize champions immobilized in Nether Grasp above all other priorities


Mordekaiser

Fixed: Children of the Grave's initial damage now correctly draws turret aggro


Morgana

Black Shield
Cooldown increased at earlier ranks to 23/21/19/17/15 seconds from 15 at all ranks
Cast range increased to 750 from 600
Soul Shackles
Leash range is now more accurate (now updates every 0.25 seconds from 0.5 seconds)


Nocturne

Shroud of Darkness
Shield duration reduced to 1.5 seconds from 2
Paranoia
Cooldown increased at earlier ranks to 180/140/100 seconds from 160/130/100
Updated Umbra Blades tooltip


Nunu

Fixed: Visionary will now grant free cost spells even if spells were ranked up while the Visionary buff was already active


Orianna

General
Fixed: Attack Range is now 525 at all times.
Command: Attack
Ability Power ratio increased to 0.5 from 0.4
Command: Shockwave
Fixed: Now stuns enemies that were in the middle of a movement skill.


Sejuani

Fixed: Arctic Assault no longer stops when encountering created terrain (ex: Anivia's Crystallize)


Sona

General
Basic attack and Power Chord missile speeds increased to 2000 from 1500
Aura persistence duration reduced to 1 second after deactivation from 2
Global cooldown reduced to 0.5 seconds from 2
Power Chord
Power Chord now resets your attack timer so you can use it immediately
Crescendo
Now deals all its damage instantly, rather than over time
Fixed: Opponents can no longer Cleanse the damage portion of Crescendo


Shen

Ki Strike
Damage reduced to 4 + 4 per level from 4 + 6 per level


Teemo

Camouflage (Passive)
Fixed: Teemo now gains the Attack Speed buff instantly after leaving invisibility


Tristana

Explosive Shot
Fixed: Passive damage no longer activates from spell damage
Fixed: Tooltip now reflects the Ability Power ratio


Twitch (Remade)

Stats
Attack Range increased to 550 from 500
Base Health increased to 389 from 356
Health per level increased to 81 from 78
Base Mana increased to 220 from 180
Mana per level increased to 40 from 35
Base Attack Damage reduced to 47 from 51.56
Attack Damage per level reduced to 3 from 3.3
Attack animation improved
Deadly Venom (Passive)
Damage reduced to 12/24/36/48 per stack from 15/30/45/60
Ambush
60 Mana, 16 second Cooldown
After 1.25 seconds, Twitch becomes invisible for 4/5/6/7/8 seconds and gains 20% Movement Speed. Twitch gains 30/40/50/60/70% Attack Speed for 5 seconds after revealing himself
Venom Cask
50 Mana, 13/12/11/10/9 second Cooldown
Twitch hurls a cask full of venom to target area that slows targets by 25/30/35/40/45% for 3 seconds and adds 2 stacks of Deadly Venom
Expunge
70/75/80/85/90 Mana, 12/11/10/9/8 second Cooldown
Deals 20/35/50/65/80 plus 15/20/25/30/35 (+0.2 Ability Power) (+0.25 bonus Attack Damage) per stack of Deadly Venom as physical damage to all nearby enemies affected by Deadly Venom
No longer removes Deadly Venom stacks
Spray and Pray
100/125/150 Mana, 120/110/100 second Cooldown
Twitch's basic attacks become powerful piercing bolts with 300 bonus range, and Twitch gains 20/28/36 Attack Damage. Each bolt deals 20% less damage to subsequent targets down to a minimum of 40% damage. Lasts 7 seconds.


Urgot

Acid Hunter
Damage adjusted to 50/80/110/140/170 (+1.2 bonus Attack Damage) from 10/40/70/100/130 (+0.85 total Attack Damage)
Lock-on missile cast range reduced to 1200 from 1500
Fixed: Rank 1 range is no longer higher than the other ranks
Noxian Corrosive Charge
Cooldown increased to 15/14/13/12/11 seconds from 11 at all ranks
Cast range reduced to 900 from 950
Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
Cast range reduced to 550/700/850 from 700/775/850


Vladimir

Sanguine Pool
Movement Speed bonus now decays over time


Xerath

Arcane Barrage
Reduced the delay between casting the spell and the impact to 0.5 seconds from 0.875 seconds
The visual indicator for the ultimate will appear at the start of the cast bar instead of at the end


Xin Zhao (Remade)

Stats
Base Attack Speed increased to 0.672 from 0.658
Attack Speed per level increased to 2.7% from 2.5%
Challenge (Passive)
Xin Zhao challenges his target with his basic attacks and Audacious Charge, reducing their Armor by 15% for 3 seconds. Only one target can be challenged at a time.
Three Talon Strikes
Now reduces his other ability cooldowns by 1 second with each strike
Attack Damage ratio increased to 1.2 from 1.0
Cooldown reduced to 9/8/7/6/5 seconds from 10
Battle Cry
Passive: Heals Xin Zhao for 26/32/38/44/50 (+0.7 Ability Power) every third basic attack
Active no longer reduces other abilities' cooldowns
Cooldown reduced to 16/15/14/13/12 seconds from 24/22/20/18/16
Mana Cost increased to 40 from 35
Audacious Charge
Now challenges the target
Damage increased to 70/115/160/205/250 (+0.6 Ability Power) from 70/110/150/190/230 (+0.4 Ability Power)
Slow increased to 25/30/35/40/45% from 20/25/30/35/40%
Slow duration increased to 2 seconds from 1.5
Range reduced to 600 from 650
Cooldown reduced to 13/12/11/10/9 seconds from 16/15/14/13/12
Crescent Sweep
Now knocks all unchallenged targets back
Now has a 1.0 bonus Attack Damage ratio
Cooldown increased to 100/90/80 seconds from 75
Armor and Magic Resist bonus adjusted to 15/20/25 per champion hit from 25 + 7/10/13 per champion hit
Now has a new particle


Yorick

Fixed: Unholy Covenant (Passive) no longer reduces true damage


Ziggs

Satchel Charge
Cooldown reduced at earlier ranks to 26/24/22/20/18 seconds from 30/27/24/21/18


Summoner's Rift

Outer turret vision range increased to 1095 from 800


Twisted Treeline

The Dragon on Twisted Treeline now has the same chat kill announcement as the Dragon on Summoner's Rift


Items

Heart of Gold
Health reduced to 200 from 250
Ionic Spark
Added a counter to show when Ionic Spark will be charged
Philosopher's Stone
Health Regen per 5 seconds reduced to 15 from 18
Avarice Blade, Heart of Gold, Kage's Lucky Pick, and Philospher's Stone now have counters in their tooltip to indicate how much gold the item has generated over the course of the game


Co-op vs. AI

Changed the way bots evaluate towers to better take into account minions and enemies
Changed return to base logic for bots to make them more likely to heal and purchase items
Dominion bots should now properly ignore invisible units when deciding to defend capture points
Beginner bots are now less likely to assist each other during kill and retreat situations
Fixed: Bot assist logic now works during the laning phase
Updated Ashe Bot's item build
Master Yi Bot should now properly purchase Sanguine Blade on Dominion instead of The Bloodthirster


General

Added character portraits to the Spectator-mode Dragon and Baron kill announcements
Fixed: Spectator no longer occasionally causes floating text announcements to be permanently displayed throughout the game
Fixed: When using time controls, gold numbers will no longer get stuck on the screen for some users
Fixed several issues that occur when reconnecting, including ghost minions, invisible champions, untargetable towers, and strange store behavior
When disconnected, the game will now attempt to reconnect automatically

Most important thing is the new Cass skin is available with the patch.

[Ophichius]

The key to killing/ganking morde is to stomp on him -hard- pre-6. Once he has his ult, you have to keep track of it. AP-scaling %HP damage means he's going to fuck your shit up no matter what. Whenever possible, as soon as his ult's down, beat the shit out of him.

Due to AP-scaling %HP, you want MR over HP. QSS can cleanse his ult's lasting DoT, it's generally a strong choice against him.

Poking him doesn't really work after he gets hextech. Before it's effective -if- you can drive damage through his shield or hit him while his shield is down.

He's got short range and really does need to stomp you in close. If you have a way to slow him from range and blast him down, use it. Also, Kass tends to shit all over him with his silence/slow/blink/blink combo, since it piles on damage and gets the hell out before reprisals.

Brand isn't half bad if you can maintain range, since he has great burst for dealing with the shield, a stun, and continuing %health damage on skill use. Anivia should be able to shit all over him as long as you're good at landing your skillshots. Fiddles can simply crow->drain->give no fucks because Morde can't stop him with CC and is slow. Morg is basically his hard counter because dark binding + pool + shield = fuck your entire kit morde. Malz can shit all over him due to silencewall->minion aids->pool->ult, Galio's AP bruiser status + mobility make him a solid choice, land a smite, continue landing smites until morde expires. Laugh at his magic damage because you have stupid amounts of MR. Sion (AP or AD) can laugh at him due to shield + stun + ult + ridiculous free AD from glowy axe.

You're looking for someone who can either apply massive hurt from outside his range, avoid the burst entirely via CC + mobility, or tank the burst long enough to get some healing going.

-O

[Blutreiter]

Voidling dance animation added

[Trocadero]

The key to killing/ganking morde is to stomp on him -hard- pre-6. Once he has his ult, you have to keep track of it. AP-scaling %HP damage means he's going to fuck your shit up no matter what. Whenever possible, as soon as his ult's down, beat the shit out of him.

Due to AP-scaling %HP, you want MR over HP. QSS can cleanse his ult's lasting DoT, it's generally a strong choice against him.

Poking him doesn't really work after he gets hextech. Before it's effective -if- you can drive damage through his shield or hit him while his shield is down.

He's got short range and really does need to stomp you in close. If you have a way to slow him from range and blast him down, use it. Also, Kass tends to shit all over him with his silence/slow/blink/blink combo, since it piles on damage and gets the hell out before reprisals.

Brand isn't half bad if you can maintain range, since he has great burst for dealing with the shield, a stun, and continuing %health damage on skill use. Anivia should be able to shit all over him as long as you're good at landing your skillshots. Fiddles can simply crow->drain->give no fucks because Morde can't stop him with CC and is slow. Morg is basically his hard counter because dark binding + pool + shield = fuck your entire kit morde. Malz can shit all over him due to silencewall->minion aids->pool->ult, Galio's AP bruiser status + mobility make him a solid choice, land a smite, continue landing smites until morde expires. Laugh at his magic damage because you have stupid amounts of MR. Sion (AP or AD) can laugh at him due to shield + stun + ult + ridiculous free AD from glowy axe.

You're looking for someone who can either apply massive hurt from outside his range, avoid the burst entirely via CC + mobility, or tank the burst long enough to get some healing going.

-O

Thanks, that will help a lot. Will have to try Morgana, I like her skill set, she just lacks a bit of a burst. I want to buy Galio too, anyway.
BTWI'm just lvl 18 so no runes yet, as it's just not worth it before 20.

[Omega Supreme]

Actually no, Morgana loses normally to Mordekaiser. She can't outpush/sustain one that isn't brain dead. Teamfighting, she's the better champ by far. Morde needs to get his target dead to make use of his ult's full power, Morgana just flashes in, ults and Zhonyas, calls it a day.

[Trocadero]

Actually no, Morgana loses normally to Mordekaiser. She can't outpush/sustain one that isn't brain dead. Teamfighting, she's the better champ by far. Morde needs to get his target dead to make use of his ult's full power, Morgana just flashes in, ults and Zhonyas, calls it a day.

So what about Ryze? A bit of a kite + Street Fighter like burst combo may be enough to chew through Morde shield... But then sustain and ability to clear creeps is a bit low.

[Omega Supreme]

Dunno, I've seen some say Ryze loses, and some say Ryze wins. Never played Ryze vs Morde, and can't remember the last time I did Morde vs Ryze.

Also just noticed in the patch notes AP Trist got nerfed.

It was nerfed in that the E passive doesn't work off spell damage anymore, meaning you can't instagib APs.