Something's Strange About the New Mordekaiser

[@AllYourPals]

honestly im not sure the colour is the problem so much as how much of it there is. he looks less like possessed armour and more like pointy xerath

[@Zoom03352]

Both

[@MalevolentFae]

The LoL version makes it look like Mordekaiser is actually contained in a fortress of Iron. The LoR design looks like he is seeping out from all of the holes.

[@Merilirem]

He definitely looks less defined. More magical.

[@Merilirem]

The one of him inside his own Realm looks way better. The blue/green mix is nice.

[@thomasway0320]

A rare miss from the LoR team, I’m sure this isn’t a devastating mistake but it is a bit disappointing.

[@tioalra6746]

the league mordekaiser looks like a brik wall, with everything sealed off inside him, not a single bit of soul may escape his grasp, while the new one just leaks the soul? it doesnt look like an iron hard efficient emperor, but like someone who just shows off power. its too similar to xerath

[@peterpop-off]

agree

[@arthurgomes5188]

League Mordekaiser looks like a pure evil being created from nightmare fuel. The redesign made me think it was a generic mob undead enemy in a World of Warcraft dungeon when i first saw it.

[@LimeTheLemonNr1]

I think that the blue design works in his deathrealm but if he crosses over again i hope he looks like the original

[@iiWarlord]

He is a mage bound to a armor dude,

[@privatedoorknob7408]

Redesign is just xerath cosplaying as morde

[@lekebabgeek422]

Mordekaiser sitting on his throne makes no sense when considering that in his color story he literally refuses to sit down and smashes his throne because he sees it as a sign of exhaustion that comes with a body made of flesh, which he conquered by becoming immortal. It was one of the coolest parts of his lore that made him more than just a generic bad guy.

[@antonstjern8378]

wouldn't it make sense to sit down on the throne then, since hes immortal now

[@xabierarana2645]

@@antonstjern8378 He no longer has a body made of flesh, so he shoudnt feel exausted

[@antonstjern8378]

@@xabierarana2645 yes that’s what I meant he’s immortal now he doesn’t get exhausted so why not sit down now

[@shyboievris834]

​@@antonstjern8378 he's no longer effected by exhuastion. sitting down would be weak in mordekaiser's eyes.

[@antonstjern8378]

@@shyboievris834 he never sat on a throne because it showed the weakness of exhaustion, but because he no longer suffers a mortal body, so he can’t get exhausted meaning his view wouldn’t make sense

[@TheUbberman]

You know, looking at it... It's not that the Blue Morde is particularly bad. It's just that the League one looks infinitely more terrifying and impressive. Dunno the bright blue does reek of 'Saturday morning cartoon villain' (even if the minions border on awesome body horror). Dare I say Blue Morde... looks like a raid boss from Classic WoW, not even one of the final bosses too.

[@rokasb9441]

This ☝️

[@swiggity6232]

The new design looks a lot like xerath and I really don't like it. He is not supposed to be leaking his soul he is meant to be bound by the armor which is what he looks like in the original splash art. He looks massive and menacing but through tiny holes in the armor you can see that he doesn't have a body its literally just massive chunks of iron and thats so cool to me. The original color was also cool in my opinion.

[@makcferon]

like thank god someone understands. took the words right out of my mouth.

[@DDaanniiRollie]

It's impossible to not like League of Legends Mordekaiser's version. Whenever I see something related to it, I feel a sudden hurge to play him. So powerful. So intimidating. An absolute unit.

[@makcferon]

exactly the design is fucking perfect. why change it. and i will die on the hill that green plays a major role. we got champions like yasuo,garen,gwen, and xerath, asol, lissandra. none of those i think intimidating absolute units. maybe sejuani but she isnt unsettling as a character she just has a cold personality. warwick and thresh would not the same without it.

[@richardch.4356]

Then the same thing would be said about hecarim

[@niclasnielsen9794]

Funny that elder dragon got revealed the same minute this video went live

[@TaisonSphereNo.4]

1:19

[@BasedEngineer]

Now Necrit gets to make another 10+ minute video about it.

[@TapuL]

It was revealed earlier as it was in the background of yesterdays video

[@lainus1714]

The Original mordekaiser that has way less glowy stuff fits the whole "soul bound to armor" thing way more imo. Like alphonse from fullmetal alchemist. the lowkeyness really sells. New morde looks like the soul is "controlling" the armor, instead of being bound by it.

[@asura3955]

I think they purposely changed morde's color for him not to be tied into the shadow isles. I would have liked it if it was whitish green or bluish green. the original dark green would be much preferable of course

[@saphcal]

i liked it better when he WAS part of the shadow isles :(

[@incendium6615]

But Morde literally has a voice line where he says ''The same magic that chains you to this realm, frees me to walk between.'' when encountering Shadow Isles champions...

[@fdyer]

it would make more sense for him to stay green, as riot has started a motif of green = freakish death entities. Viegos whole deal is that he cheated death using the life giving water from the Blessed Isles whilst simultaneously dying, Mord also cheated death in the sense that he blatantly refused to die. it would be cool if the green hue was runeterras universal signal for “oh fuck this guy is supposed to be dead why is he alive”

[@TheMortiaris]

@@saphcal Shadow isles are like sandpit, morde is desert

[@Wuhaboo]

White green would be so cool

[@ethanstyant9704]

As other people have pointed out. Why does he have a throne? It was explicitly stated that he doesn't need one because he is no longer a mortal who needs to sit and rest

[@gemodemplay415]

To me, by redesigning Mordekaiser already while Cho`Gath looks the same is one of many examples why they are not able to pull off the `united universe` thing or `updating every champion` thing.

[@NovaDrakers]

I mean. Everything takes time, no? As long as something is being done, progress is being made

[@le1660]

Isn't this mmo design morde or is this gonna change lol morde?

[@pumpking1278]

They didn't redesigned Morde because they HAD to, but because they had the oportunity to (not necessary tho I agree). But you can be sure that if Cho'Gath is in LoR he will get a redesign, probably a bigger one too since they would try to make it look more like the other Void units and champions.

[@pwpqwq7648]

We will hopefully get an explanation for this whole thing. Maybe this form is his incomplete form, while the one we have in league is his actual form, with the armor finally sealing all the holes. Either way, I don't think we should consider this an update for his design, seeing the feedback Riot will most likely keep the previous form, even if they wanted to make this one his canon form. His main look is still most likely the one in league, and we will find out why he looks different, the same way they did with Udyr.

[@danielbarnes1241]

​@NovaDrakers It's hard to be patient with riot nowadays with all thier stupid decisions and how we went from 2 vgus minimum to less than 1 a year

[@trooperscientists2000]

my theory for the Lore is: Nilah went around Runeterra to gather blessings from different "gods", to then stop the preemptive rise of Mordekaiser. She won't actually fight Mord, but fight some cultists and maybe some early followers. With Voli to gain his blessing she needed to fight him. This fight ended when Voli acknowledged her (similar to the little fight in Song of Nunu, but bigger)

[@randomshit6539]

That's a pretty cool idea

[@felipecouto1102]

Its a pretty cool idea... sad that its being wasted on Nilah. There's such a big buildup for everything thats related to Mordekaiser, making Nilah casually going from world-ending threat to world-ending threat collecting blessings like they are trinkets REALLY undermines that whole sense of danger. Specially considering she will certainly leave the Mordekaiser fight alive. Of course, thats much more a fault on Riot for not doing anything with Nilah's character except making her extremely powerful. If there was any buildup or event with her that would be way better, but as it stands, she's just a superpowered rando who goes around making fun of favorite characters.

[@cooperburtonburger1827]

​@@felipecouto1102thats part of her story tho, no one knows who she is, she doesnt even remembers who she was before ashlesh, thtas why she goes around beating fucking gods so she can be remembered again

[@felipecouto1102]

@@cooperburtonburger1827 We know who she is tho. And we also know how important those gods and deities are. Making her beat up on them just makes THEIR hype lessen, considering there's no event happening, she's just doing it for shits and giggles. What she's doing is like a mythology hero going around beating everybody, an Hercules or Gilgamesh... except that there's not actually any content besides us knowing she is beating them. There's no actual lore on it.

[@TheTrueEnderLord]

Mans unironically just spoiled part of song of nunu

[@hunterthewizard5544]

I think one of the resons they re-designed him is because this is a new second set of armor. With the current LOR cards the only regions that had not received a new champion were the shadow isles, targon, demacia, and bandle city. We also saw at the end of Volibears teaser Nilah had sailed to the shadow isles. So Mordekaiser is likely the new SI champion and lore wise his cult is trying to resurrect him on the shadow isles. They could be resurrecting him there because its away from Leblanc and her spies on the populated regions of the world, the shadow isles is already full on undead energy so they could be trying to harness it, the isles are close to the dead so the barrier between it and mords realm is thinner, there's a lot of options they can use to explain why they are their. Since his original armor is still held by Leblanc his cultists had to make due so they created him a new set or armor that tried to emulate his original armor. So to signal that this isnt his real armor they redesigned him to show this isnt the armor held by Leblanc. Thats my take on it i could be completely wrong but i think it would make sense.

[@Movieplayer112]

I get where you are going. But if that was the case, they wouldn't go as hard on the design. It would be more down to earth, a little more "slapped together", just to receive Morde. I also doubt that the Shadow Isle would be a great place to go to. The ghosts there are not followers of Morde, and the cultists would be under constant attacks.

[@kashtrey]

​@@Movieplayer112 you totally wouldn't skimp or give a warlord a set of armor that's "slapped together." And sure Morde's followers might be attacked but Morde also would have tons of souls in SI to use to shape into the monstrosities that are his followers.

[@Movieplayer112]

@@kashtrey The idea is that, it is just a physical form to receive him, and he would soon after construct a better fitting armor, and probably out of the cultists who summoned him. It would be a footnote, but not the finished thing.

[@kashtrey]

@@Movieplayer112 I get what you’re saying but the last cultist that resurrected him ended up getting used to form his mace; giving him an unfinished set of armor is literally just asking to be turned into his codpiece.

[@Movieplayer112]

@@kashtrey I basically said that my self: "he would soon after construct a better fitting armor, and probably out of the cultists who summoned him." I don't think Morde would really give a shit.

[@cyrusswift6895]

I would like to think that LoR is a place where riot can experience ideas of design to see how far they can go and what is people's reaction before suddenly committing to change a character's design

[@parker4025]

I hope that’s how they’re treating it and that the splash art in LoR is just something they’re trying and MIGHT use as final designs, rather than everything in LoR being absolute canonical fact.

[@damixyoohyeon9069]

Given what Riot have recently said about lore it's probably canon

[@AbsurdAsparagus]

i hope so, i also dont like the nerf they gave kindred.

[@mozey9366]

Everything they did is. Song of Nunu, environment design. Project L, combat design. League and Lor concept and universe design. Even Valorant's like some dungeon combat design in whatever mmo games. They would never make the same concept of the game twice because the next time it'll be mmo

[@Sinvallis]

hope so

[@incendium6615]

I was hyped to see the Morde reveal but was really disappointed by his redesign, his league version is definitely superior, no idea why they felt the need to change it...

[@omegacxv8344]

The only guess I could make, is that Riot wants 2 versions of Mordekaiser for the MMO, one weaker version, that we see here. Only being temporarily conjured by his cultists. That's why his armor has so many gaps, they could fully fit his soul. Maybe he comes from just a simple quest or Event. And then the second, proper armor, but that would be his raid boss appearance. Where you have to fight through hordes of his souls first to get to that massive titan! Especially considering that his armor is locked underneath the Immortal Bastion, it would make sense to change up his Design a bit, if it's not the "real" Mordekaiser.

[@wtwd]

It feels like when Xerath stripped all the power he did, it's like his body has trouble containing itself. Kind of showing how it wasn't meant to be that way. Morde's design looked purposeful, like a suit was strongly bound to him in an almost natural way. I don't think the new design looks bad, I just don't think it shows how much control Morde had over his own soul. Xerath feels sporadic and unhinged, Morde feels controlled and concentrated. Two similar ideas conveyed in two different ways. I don't hate it now, just don't support it.

[@wtwd]

Nightfall looks great though.

[@oliverekiituno5255]

​@wtwd U may like it but league nightfall is miles ahead for me. New nightfall feels too showy. Doesn't match morde's focus and ambition

[@GiRR007]

@@wtwd The new night fall reminds me more of a big chalice than a mace.

[@xladbetr8097]

I saw people on the subreddit saying that when he was banished to his realm, he didnt keep his armor, so it makes sense for him to have a different one when making an appearance. It makes sense that his new armor is worse than the old one, since he probably hastily forged it with souls for his comeback. Being high on copium, I hope they have a story of him getting his old armor back tho, since it would make so much more sense for the iron revenant to be, well, covered in iron.

[@swiftwithoutnumbers]

The LoR design looks like the second phase of a fight with him where you have already done decent damage to him.

[@BoyDugo02]

My thoughts exactly. I was looking for this exact comment.

[@priestking8636]

I still think that Blue Morde is just his sight in his realm. His true set of armor - a League one is in Immortal Bastion. And when he returnes, he will look like League one. At least I hope so

[@TheThe.]

Thats kinda what I was thinking, its almost like he is incomplete after just getting resurrected

[@TrymChan]

The LoL version looks like an unstoppable and indestructible tank that will walk through entire armies alone. The LoR version looks like a tough Dark Souls enemy with a gimmick that if you hit him with a heavy attack from a heavy weapon he will fall apart, then slowly reconstruct himself (like the skeletons you can break apart with heavy weapons) giving you a lot of time to deal damage to him.

[@SmartyMcSmartsen]

Im just a little bit concerned about the entire lore thing + how LoR is changing a lot of champion appearances. I mean I know they want to bring everything in line, but I feel like Riot can't keep up on each other. They won't update the visiuals in League since they work with different priorities + what will be the actual design that we will find in the MMO or future Riot Forge games? It feels a little bit disconnected and yeah... The original Mordekaiser design was so much better and looks more badass than the new one

[@arcanumelite4853]

they specifically said that all things going forward from LoR would be the new canon.. and that arcane is also canon... so whatever LoR does is what it will be like in the MMO.

[@texo456]

I always saw the hue of the shadow isles as being more of a teal, the combination of green and blue, or life and death. A state of being trapped in-between

[@jeppeboe96]

I think a good way to mix Mordes Lol an Lor designs would be to have his armor be a lot more "closed off" (like in league) when he has barely injested any souls, but after he has feasted on some spirits his armor would "open up" making it have more gaps while morde expands. (Like Lor)

[@romainrondeau4242]

You can even make morde armor open in his R and stay open if he steals the soul exhuding raw power.

[@Summon_Aery]

It's weird seeing his armour so wide open, I always saw it as his armour containing his immense power and being sealed shut kind of similar to Deathwing, of course there are a few wholes but it was still being held firmly together as a whole.

[@chickenoodle3397]

You said something about the elder dragon becoming another new, unique champion? 1:00 It'd be strange for Riot to release multiple dragon type champions in a row, especially since they're releasing an egg. Could it be safe to assume that this champion could possibly evolve over the course of the game and at lvl 16, like Kayle become an Elder Dragon.

[@whythewolfs2279]

A reason for why Kallista is blue, might be her Spirit of Vengeance thing, considering no other spirit from the Shadow Isles could travel without the black mist (looking at you Thresh), Kallista could be summoned anywhere on Runeterra, if the pledge of Vengeance (seen in her cinematic and short story) was invoked, offering your soul to Kallista in return for vengeance upon those who'm have wronged you. In short, I think she is considered a spirit in her own right, and not a shadow isle undead.

[@_Boobbert_]

I like how we get so many sprites that just say “no” to death.

[@duwanglover3424]

You pointed it out in the video, but thats not Mordekaiser's original armor; thats being guarded and watched by LeBlonc. So it makes sense as to why Mordekaiser looks slightly different, he had to make some new armor. As for Nightfall, I dont think that is Nightfall, as thay is also very likely hidden away by her.

[@destinyj.5432]

League Morde looks like "ou shiiiiiiit" and then you die. The new one looks like a dungeon boss in Skyrim

[@xVibra]

The herald being LeBlanc would be such a good twist. Needing a reason to bring him back, but maintaining a leash on him to make sure you keep control. It seems unlikely she wouldn't know what's going on in the one place that could potentially usurp the entirety of the Noxian continent, nevermind wrestling control from her. That's also dismissing Swain as another surveyor, since he has eyes in a lot of places. It's either outside of the Immortal Bastion, or LeBlanc already knows about it. Especially when the worshippers probably aren't the most quiet, what with their clanky armor adornments.

[@ArkLazarusMaximus]

Mordekaiser conquering the entire continent and the "world" uniting against him is the old lore (because the old world only used to be a single continent). In the new lore, at best Morde conquered a significant portion of East Valoran, hence the Immortal Bastion's location, and the Noxii tribes united to defeat him, hence Noxus was formed around said Immortal Bastion.

[@phyrandria6418]

We have never see souls in the afterlife! so Morde being blue in HIS domain makes sense as he is not ripping souls from the spirit realm to animate. His new design is seemingly evocative of the likes of the immortal bastion, I think it works.

[@mikonyx7712]

Funny fact, if you cut off the thin top part of Mordekaisers larger horns, he resembles Micky Mouse

[@NerdGlasses256]

the new nightfall looks a bit like a gaslamp to me. Also it feels like, if you bash that into the ground realy hard, it would break, because it's texture looks more like stone than metal (I know it isn't but orewise, but we are talking about looks here.) I don't think that the helmet is that bad, I mean i isn't as good as the original, but I think it isn't that goofy.

[@lowlypooch4186]

Mordekaiser has a high possibility to involve the leaked but not released "deathless" ability

[@woulfmondsden7520]

I love both versions and I would really like them to not be exclusive, like league mordekaiser would be his terrenal form and so it has way more structure and makes sense while the LoR one has more free space because its meant for the death realm were he isn't bound by the logic of the living world, sure the helm is a little bit off but a side from that he looks cool honestly

[@HateshWarkio]

Also, his new helmet not only has actual bunny ears, but it also got eyebrows This Mowdekaisew is vewy angy

[@lasicakdandous2377]

i really like the design i just think they should close the holes up a bit to make him look more menacing but i think due to him being blue now he looks like a bulky version of the lich king

[@ozthebeeman]

Mordekiser after learning there are no gods of death: Fine I'll do it myself

[@trooperscientists2000]

I hope they change those small criticisms of his design, predominately the helmet. It should not be too hard for the artists to do so.

[@bright554]

Missed opportunity to insert a clip of breaking bad where Walter says "Why are you blue?"

[@quinnbell2388]

IMO, LoL Mordekaiser looks more like a Juggernaut and LoR Mordekaiser looks more like a Warlord. Both are pretty cool designs. I do think there could be some visual confusion between the power that animates Mordekaiser and the power that animates Xerath, but I trust the texture artists to demonstrate enough of a distinction

[@gelokabute1304]

The new Mordekaiser looks more like a cartoon villain than a villain you would actually take seriously, I cant imagine this design being animated in a future cinematic where they have to seal mordekaiser back and he looks like this.

[@HasturBeta]

Never played any riot games, don't intent to, but I love and watch all your videos. You're enthusiasm is jus plain infectious.

[@amf3118]

he looks like a decepticon now i love this new design (and the blue hues to distinguish him and his realm to the "cursed undead" green that the shadow isles use)

[@JohnWhitneyTheFourth]

My primary issue is the weapon looks like a clunky trophy instead of the warmace that is his first one. The colors are alright but first morde looks like a boss and new morde looks like a trash mob or mini boss

[@darkeather2]

I imagine that as he's chilling in his realm, he'll occasionally decide to work on his armor more, make it bigger as he gains more souls/power, and generally forcing him to redesign it from time to time.

[@michealman264]

Idk I feel necrit should get a world record for lengthening 1 minute videos into 10+ minute videos.

[@Aitchless_Cris]

About Morde: the iron nipples with drapes are nightmare material tbh

[@mazefighter0]

And just when you post this, the elder drake gets revealed xD

[@LadyTsunade777]

One thing I wish League would do is lean into more extreme and unusual champs. They sort of did it with ASol's release, but then they decided to nerf him to unplayability until they deleted him and added a new champ in his place. What I mean is I wish League had champs like Smite's Jörmungandr and HotS' Deathwing - champs that are very explicitly not humanoid and play extremely different to how the entire rest of the game plays normally. So while I know you're explicitly talking about an Elder Dragon character in LoR, I can't help but think of it as a champ in League. Slow autos that splash, a take off ability to knock away nearby enemies, a beam breath ult (like the execute effect from the buff) that's global single target and executes, but can only be cast on enemies that were dealt damage by your team within the last X seconds.

[@frescopino7866]

I think the new silhouette works a lot better than League Morde. It makes him look more like a building than a man in armor. And I also really like the new pattern design on it, but there's one thing I'm missing from the League design: layers. Morde's armor has layers of armor plates and even what looks like metal bones within. THAT'S what's really missing.

[@kinbrow1799]

That is so true, makes so much sense that it is the reason it looks "weak". I just hope they would change it, but I doubt it will happen. Sadly

[@adamshev5105]

I think this design might rerpesent Mordekaiser's current look in The Death realm itself, while his Lol design still awaits in The Immorlal bastion

[@Martician]

My main problem with nilah being pushed into other champions reveal feels really like she is taking away the spotlight from Morde etc.

[@GoldLight73]

Damn, you actually beat me to it. I had a whole video script in the works talking about soul colors and their meanings in Runeterra.

[@fallentitan9811]

As a Mordekaiser simp, I am not really liking the Legends of Runeterra look. Looks more like a cartoon villain now, which is kinda dumb. And that’s coming from someone who thought his OG look was metal.

[@rickyrockstar1233]

Walter White: What is wrong with you... Why are you BLUE!?

[@rosyegoist]

well I personally really like the redesign mostly because it does lean more into looking like armor from a battle being reanimated by something evil (his soul). The original is amazing of course. I think the redesign, like the lore team is trying to do now, brings much more consistency in the universe.

[@lekebabgeek422]

The way I see it it's actually the opposite, the LoL version looks way more like a walking armor while in LoR he looks like random scraps of metal put together.

[@keijos2255]

4:46 correction, thats not noxian script, its ochnun, the language he learnt in the shadow realm. It reads sahn-uzal, which was mordekaiser´s human(?) name

[@oskarmaxx]

I like to believe Nilah got absolutely BODIED in the volibear fight, as she would, and she literally died. That is why she is now in the realm of dead, but because of the demon she is powerful enough to to just join morde's undead army, and then takes up the fight against him!

[@LittleJoeT]

The contant pumping out lately is super fun, every morning before work necrit video is included in the routine

[@fishonmydish7774]

The blue instead of green is interesting, but too many open areas and it feeling overdesigned kinda kills it. Current Morde looks great (not just because of that amazing splash) because to me he's simple, he's grandiose in nature but with his warlord background it felt like his armor was meant to seem intimidating for his enemies but practical for his current form of existence. The Runeterra version of him feels... bizarre, he looks industrialized, with those (I'm not sure what they're called) rivets on his legs and the metal on the mace bending upwards. The idea of it having a Noxian touch is nice, but I feel like this could be an opportunity to showcase the difference in past Noxian (well, Noxii I suppose considering the time period) design philosophies in comparison to present day (granted though, his story I'm pretty sure says the Sahn Uzal part of him is essentially no more, evolved into Mordekaiser, so maybe the lack of connections to Noxus for his design in his current LoL depiction makes a bit more sense, he hasn't lost the pragmatic and utilitarian side of himself from his time before as a warlord, but lacks true connection to his roots thanks to embracing his new existence barring the few scraps of red cloth from his previous empire that he likely carried back into the afterlife after his plan to have Leblanc send him back came to fruition). It feels like I'm looking at a Project and Base fusion for this version of him, like this is not meant to be official art and more of fan concept of what those two would look like mashed together, and it just doesn't work here for me.

[@theunexpectedua]

Tbh the new design looks like a Xerath Decepticon. :D

[@ThisHandleistoocool]

Its going good for riot lore the riot games.....not so much😅

[@mnxn1734]

I suppose this new design is simply the way he looks in his death realm (even if we have that other image) whereas the LoL splash is the original armor that he will one day inhabit again

[@mishalomega6480]

What an interesting teaser for morde shi- sitting with that cool armor

[@paweuszcz4856]

I have personal headcanon of this version of Mordekaiser being a different set of armor, with the League's version being chained over the well of souls in Immortal Bastion

[@dragomaster2422]

Are you going to go through all the new designs and possible lore implications in LoR?

[@ChasingDeathbeds]

I feel like they unintentionally “slutted up” Mordekaiser with this redesign🤣 Skimped his armor, gave him a slave princess Leia skirt/banner & FFOnline bunny ears

[@BowserisOK]

14:12 That's not awkward! That's the truth! Why did Riot Games nerf Morgana tits? So what if people like big tits Morgana? It's no different than shirtless male champs. My concern on Morgana's new look is the same concern everyone had with Kayle's new look. Why is Morgana wearing armor if she's not afraid to die?

[@Fresch_K]

I always strongly disagreed with people who claimed that he was definitely going to be a Noxus champion. First of all, gameplay wise he clearly belongs to the Shadows Isles region. He is all about death, causing things to die around him and growing stronger in the process, that's 100% Shadow Isles gameplay, not Noxus. And secondly, Morde doesn't even have very strong ties to Noxus, only the physical location of it. Sure, he built the Immortal Bastion, but Noxus as a nation was founded after his defeat. When he returns, he will probably use the Immortal Bastion as his base of operations once again, but he wants to invade all of Runeterra. He doesn't care about Noxus specifically.

[@Salmagros]

Yea Necrit is totally right. It's make sense for Riot for to change an iconic cool recently reworked design to a more "NOXIAN" blended in with everything else design.

[@FrozenYoghurt2411]

nah this is morderath, xerath and mordekaisers son

[@nickdagr8wiz]

"First of all, we have Mordekaiser, shi-(tting on his throne)"

[@Gaaradeadly]

Must be new story writers, I won't be surprised if the new lore would be dull

[@Gaaradeadly]

Also Nilah being everywhere starts to annoy me,

[@leoleo1035]

The blue coloring makes absolutely no sense. Green has been mostly used for "undying" or "unliving" on all characters in LoL that used it. Like some others mentioned, it really looks like Xerath or a generic boss from a WoW dungeon.

[@michaeltaylor788]

3:18 looks like a transformer who became a herald of Galactus 😂.

[@animagamer2]

Honestly, the new Mord design makes him look like a freaking Gundam... and I kind of love it. The old design is defiantly still primo and it's the one I think they should lean into more going forward but I'm kind of just happy to have my Gundum Mord right now.

[@NikolaNiKucu]

I am somewhat undecided on these expansions.. something similar to how it turned out to be with Galio and constructs. They just kept adding stuff to the "mystery" parts even though the guessing game is sometimes way more fun A sketch sometimes feel way more lively than the finished drawing

[@ozthebeeman]

The thing is the universe canon look of morde in his realm had the blue under control and jt still looked like morde the LoR desing is overflowing with light blue. I think they should tone it down a little gove some more dark blue and give the old helmet back and the design would actually be not so bad

[@XaleanderS]

Mordekaiser: *being chad* Riot: *making him more chad* Meanwhile Corki: - Same game

[@XanKreigor]

If Nilah doesn't get absolutely curb stomped by Mordekaiser I'll be disappointed.

[@Kalaggu2020]

He now looks like a miniboss, give me my boy back or I walk forever

[@alejandrotti10]

For those who don't know, Legends of Runeterra actually had at least two-to-three champions whose card arts were redesigned. Two of them were Teemo and Fizz for reasons I don't fully know (but considering how the major changes were on the Lvl 2 splash arts I would guess it was to give em' more impact). The third one, and the reason why I'm hopeful for the fixing on Morde's armor, was Lulu. She was kind of uncanny when she was first revealed, and the community was divided. Even so, months after, her artstyle was re-tweaked while keeping the artstyle, just before the Teemo and Fizz update. If that happened before, I'm sure they'll find a way to fix the plot holes that Morde currently has.

[@peacepham7838]

That's not a plot hole...

[@Siegram999]

its not a plothole its just actual holes and people dont like it .

[@AdorianDelmore]

Mordekaiser is no villain. He is just misunderstood.🥺

[@MaOrnnKaiser]

blud looks in LoR like a transformer💀

[@nem3732]

4:45 Correction: His banner isn't written in Noxian. The banner has his name written in Ochnun.

[@Jinhakura]

Mord has a tuning fork helmet. makes sense since he's apart of pentakill.

[@mizu5700]

What i dont get is that: if his armore is bound in the living realm why dose he have it in his realm? Shouldnt he just be his "Shan uzal" self?

[@smlglob]

I actually really like the colour change to blue, the green really just screams shadow isles. The new armour however is not amazing for the same reasons you said

[@NeuralNotes5]

Mordekaiser design before: Dark Indestructible Behemoth of a God-Emperor of Death. Mordekaiser now: Mordekaisers soul energy shining bright through sturdy armor with holes and surprisingly funny helmet. Being of soul energy... Mordekaiser I would love: The first one with whatever design changes need to be made. Would understand the blue colour of soul, even the visibility of his soul holding the Armor together as it is being fed other souls to grow more powerful as he has nothing to fear inside his domain, although would appreciate more indestructible look when readying for more serious battle. The helmet seems to clunky... I loved the sickly green colour as it was reminescent of all the death he brought and still shall bring upon the world, but understand it fights with Ruined kings colour pallete. Don't know if there are some changes to his lore whether he shall be pragmatist or psychopath whose powers would thus not be tainted by his emotions. But all the destruction he caused in his wake definitely colours him dark sickly murderous villain in my eyes. And I cannot seem to bring myself to like it yet. Will tell you as soon as I change my mind...

[@Merilirem]

He looks like a bunny! EDIT: Oh you said it. Nice!

[@voidraldarken]

In my opinion, the colour change was fine, but as was said, the number and size of the gaps in his armour are the real problem I have with it.

[@phantazem9381]

10:45 *brushing my hair in the bathroom listening to the video* "First of all we have Mordekaiser shi--" HES DOING WHAT

[@facedecul]

as a main mordekaiser in lol and will be in lor, the new design doesnt scare me, its like the vision of another artist (like cthulhu). He's different, but not in a bad way. I love both design (lor and lol).

[@ghostkill221]

I don't hate the color, It kinda differentiates him from Shadow Isles and the very classic Shadow Isles Colors. I think just making the armor a bit more enclosed would help a lot.

[@electrified2938]

Imagine if every time they made changes to a champs kit, they came out with a champ story to somewhat explain the changes. Would be cool to connect in game content to lore

[@nesses1087]

In the previous TFT set, morde had a red hue, I think that was a good color to show off that he's not just any spirit, he has become something stronger. And the red also ties him back to noxus

[@AA-kw6le]

Thankyou for explaining why he was blue, really didnt understand the change at first.

[@omgodification]

Why Nilah specifically. Who asked for Nilah to be the protagonist of anything ever.

[@jayvinwilliams8508]

real

[@chunkykong6132]

I feel like I'd hit Mord and he'd fall apart like a Dry Bones