I hate to break it to you guys, but Riot knows exactly what they're doing with Morde.

I keep seeing comments and posts saying that Morde's problem is how unreliable his abilities are, but have you considered what would happen if his abilities were reliable? Do you guys REALLY think Riot has NEVER attempted to remedy any of his issues in internal testing?

I'm going to make it easy for you guys to understand:

Example 1 - Riot removes stat steal from ultimate and makes E faster. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Except Morde isn't a duelist. You pull Jax into your ultimate and you die. You pull Fiora and you die, Darius and you die etc. You hit your abilities and you die, because Morde is a stat checker, he was designed as so, and that's a FUNDAMENTAL design problem with his kit. He is a stat checker with the ultimate of a duelist.

Example 2 - You hit your abilities and you win... in an isolated 1v1 area that you created yourself, in a team based game... League of Legends is a team based game, positioning is extremely important, supports are meant to peel for you, there are Vanguards, Enchanters, Wardens etc, characters which their entire value is derived from helping their team mates, and you're able to bypass all of that with one button. Think about what poor gameplay this would result in for any squishy champion you come in contact with.

I'm sorry but this ultimate is unsustainable. You can downvote me, try to beat around the bush, but Mordekaiser WILL NEVER BE VIABLE as long as he has this ultimate and it's time you people snap out of this state of denial.