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[WIP] [11.11] Morgana: Bind and Break

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Runes: Domination Second

1 2 3

Sorcery

Arcane Comet

Nimbus Cloak

Transcendence

Scorch

Domination

Cheap Shot

Ingenious Hunter

Bonus:

+8 Ability Haste
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor

Spells:

1 2

Ignite

Flash

Ignite

Items

Starting

Full Utility (Suggested)

Core

Situational Options

Example

Full Damage

Core

Situational Options

Example

Ability Order R>Q>E>W

Morgana Passive Ability

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Strengths and Weaknesses

STRENGTHS

+ High pick potential
+ High single-target CC with when maxed first
+ Relatively easy ways to trigger
+ Decent disengage with
+ Stronger in longer fights

Morgana is a pretty good support all-around when played decently. She is known for her very strong CC, particularly her bind, as well as her ability to counter enemy CC through her . By building Moonstone, she becomes very good for utility in extended fights, providing easy sustain for her teammates very easily with even just a single tick of .

WEAKNESSES

- squishy without
- Weak against AoE CC effects
- Relatively low damage when built for utility
- Weak against high upfront damage

While Morgana's single-target potential is very strong, she struggles in teamfights when the enemy has a lot of damage and no single-target pick is quite enough to turn the fight. Because she has to be in the middle of enemies to use her ult when the enemy is spread out, it's actually pretty hard for her to ult aggressively during teamfights mid-/late-game, especially without Zhonya's.

Abilities

PASSIVE
ABILITY

Soul Siphon: Soul siphon heals Morgana for a percentage of damage from her abilities dealt to enemy champions, large monsters, and large minions. This gives you a bit more sustain during trades and while doing objectives like , but note that utility Morg doesn't do much damage, so Soul Siphon won't heal all that much either.

Dark Binding: Support Morgana's bread and butter. Dark Binding is a relatively slow skillshot, but it hits fairly hard and locks enemies down for a hefty 2-3 second bind depending on rank. Maxing this first gives Morg a lot of kill pressure, especially when few enemy champions are present.

Ability Sequence
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18

Mythic Items

Moonstone Renewer: Moonstone is by far the most consistent mythic item on Morgana. She can trigger the healing very easily not just with her shield, but with all of her active abilities as well as items, such as . Morgana's DoT playstyle also means that she can stay in combat for longer periods relatively easily during both laning phase and beyond, allowing the heal/shield amp to ramp up on Moonstone fairly easily. The only real con to building Moonstone is that the heal/shield amp doesn't apply to anything in her kit except , which isn't usually used to block damage anyway.

Imperial Mandate: Despite that Imperial seems to be built on Morg a lot according to the item shop recommendation, it's not actually very good on her. You can only trigger the mark through two of her four abilities (Q and ult), and both are on a relatively long cooldown when you compare with the cooldown of the mark application. It's not useless on Morg, but I do think a lot of its potential is wasted on her due to her cooldowns, particularly with the way I play her.

Locket of the Iron Solari: I think Locket is at best very situational on Morg. I think she has better options in legendary items if she needs to build some tankier items, but if the enemy has a lot of AoE burst damage that may be difficult to outheal with Moonstone, such as 's , I could see Locket being more useful.

Shurelya's Battlesong: There's no reason to consider Shurelya's; it's impossible to proc as Morg except for her , and if you're using it to block CC there's likely no need for the extra movespeed.

Mage mythics: I think Morgana is better able to support her team by providing utility over damage, so I personally wouldn't recommend mage mythics because they're so much more expensive of a power spike. I don't think they can never be used though, so consider this part of the guide a WIP; I might come back and discuss mage support Morg sometime.

Support Items

Support item: There's no reason you should ever not have your ward item on support Morg. My playstyle suits more, but of course serves the same purpose. Pick whichever one you can stack faster!

Wardstone: Control wards are super important for vision control as support, and Wardstone is the perfect last item to complete your build regardless of everything else. can be bought starting at level 13 and allows you to hold three control wards in your inventory compared to the regular two. Once you've upgraded your support item to its final stage, becomes and increases your bonus AD, health, AP, and AH by a percentage. Because the stat increase is a percentage of what your other items give you, you should always purchase your Wardstone as the very last item unless you're in a situation where you have another incomplete item, but you only have one fight left before the enemy can end the game.

Situational Items (Utility)

Boots: are my default choice on utility Morg to grant her lower cooldowns to her abilities, allowing for more CC opportunities and more consistent Moonstone procs. are good against CC-heavy or AP-heavy comps while are good against AD-heavy comps. are by far the most situational, only recommended against heavy and consistent slow teams, such as or with .

Redemption: Redemption is a pretty strong pick in the right situations because it helps overcome Morg's lack of AoE utility. procs pretty fast, especially with item haste, but it ultimately is still single-target and you have to be close enough to the allies that need healing most to help them. Redemption gives you a longer range burst of healing that can hit multiple people at once with the added bonus of damaging enemies in a hectic teamfight. It can also be used to combo with your to give you more survivability.

Demonic Embrace: This is the only damage-centric item I recommend on Morg, and even then I still recommend it more for the utility. Applying the burn on the enemy team during a teamfight grants you extra resistances, which can be done easily with a well-placed or with a opportunistic . In addition, the burn keeps you in combat and continues proccing for a while even after enemies leave your .

Ally enhancers: Building opens the option of building and because the heal can apply the effects very easily. However, because it's not always consistent who the effect applies to, I often opt for other choices unless at least two or three of my allies benefit from on-hit effects or AP/AH. Remember that some ADCs like and actually benefit quite a bit from !

Chemtech Putrifier: Healing an ally with gives an easy 60% Grievous Wounds to that ally. It also applies when you someone. The reason I recommend Chemtech Putrifier over is because as a general rule, I only build on champions that are self-sufficient in damage for meeting the health threshold to apply 60% Grievous Wounds, such as or . Utility Morg tends to have trouble doing so.

Zhonya's Hourglass: While it's far from useless, I don't build Zhonya's nearly as often as I feel other Morg supports do. My reasoning is that against most teams, you often don't need to Zhonya's to survive long enough for your to go off; in fact, it usually hurts your chances of landing the stun because you can't move when in stasis, and the bonus movespeed you get is wasted. I only build Zhonya's when the enemy has very high burst and I need it to survive not just long enough for the stun on but in general. is a prime example of an enemy I would build Zhonya's to counter.