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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

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

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.

15:27 I have a few ideas. None are great but itd be neat if one of them is right :> - the coloration and accents involved ties it to Morgana in the sense of it being a pinkish purple, black feathers, and the silver chain ornaments she also has. - the corruption on the child's skin reminds me of morg's W corrupted ground. - on first glance tho, if we ignore the above, I gasped and was like YO WHAT IF THIS IS SOME VOID/DARKIN BLOOD MAGIC STUFF BUT NOT THE EXACT SAME cuz magic is a spectrum or something. But on closer inspection it definitely feels less likely. I HAD thought maybe void due to the veiny, corrupted and crazy plant look the creature has in its mask design (kinda like malzahar and his void brain) and its oddly pale and inhuman limbs........... But idk. The white could be a petricite structure in demacia fueled by morgana's magic.?

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.

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

The timing you had in releasing this video was perfect. Minute after they released the elder dragon champion HAHA XD

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

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

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

masterful way to handle that you almost slipped with the prononciation of sitting

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.

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

I think the whole reason they redesigned him was to make him look more like Arthus' lich king.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

In the original summoner icon they released as a ranked reward for the mordekaiser rework, he has a blue glow. Always thought that was odd when he was ghostly green.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

crazy how elder dragon got confirmed the moment you posted this

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

Well, there seems to be some interesting things on the Way.m I wonder what Nilah is trying to do here? As for Morde, I don’t have too much problem with his design, his Armor just needs to be a little more Black. Also, it’s good to see things going for Morgana and the Sisters as well, I wonder what else we can expect next? Can’t wait.

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.

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

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

I now cannot unsee mordekaiser on the toilet. Thanks necrit

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

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

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

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...

Mordekaiser shitting on his iron throne is iconic. Thank you for this golden nugget, Necrit.

I feel that this redesign is very neat and i would love to see it in the league it resembles more of the old morde than sauron ripoff which current morde is. And i would like to have some gameplay changes to make current gameplay bit more like older, current gameplay is to damn crude and simplistic compared to old one. I feel that current "indestructible" concept feels bleak when it comes to old one being the gran ruler and master of the scheme and being the unbreakable in addition to that.

Hell yeah, brother.

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

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

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

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

The morgana stuff looks amazing

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

Morgana´s veils is hanging from her neck in the art with the child

6:11 to me, it just looks like a stone(age) gundam x: on a side note, every time u mention "soul bound to armor" I can't help but think of FMA x:

Honestly, besides the helmet (which I agree is worse), the armor isn't even that more revealing. It seems like mostly the glow is more apparent. Currently in league its kind of hard to tell what is armor and what is spirit, since the green is so dull they kind of blend together. In the new design its mostly only different in the legs and head.

Imagine the best parts of the new design mixed with the old(recent)one

So 2 things that confused me, 1.they show us mordekaiser and morgana and elder as new champions but at the end of volibear trailer they showed us nilah is travelling to shadow Island but none of them are from there. And 2. What if mihira showed herself to other regions like the new Splash art, like kayle that known as aspect of justice in demacia but they know her differently in targon

I like how he looks like an evil building

Surprised it wasen't mentioned at all the "nipple spikes" with the drapes dangling off. But yea, looks like something that just take control of the armor or other said looks like xerath where the power leak out: there isen't much iconic in him... I mean, even Ledros have a pair of shoulderpads with long spikes that can give the immortal bastion vibe... Hell, it look less generic Ledros than LoR Morde

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

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.

Necrit makes the videos so long from just a rumor that I have to speed them up to x1.5 lol

2:43 poor Morde went from pizza feet to bionicle shoes

I'm just happy my man mordekaiser is getting some love in my favorite card game