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So I recently decided to go full utility + tanky. So instead of FRQ, I get Eye of the Watchers ( 100% mana regen + less ap). And get Rylai. I know it is not efficient by when enemy team as fast moving champs. It helps me in slowing them down.
Instead of Q + W, I do just W ( zoning, permaslow for 5 seconds, initiation or escape) and wait for my team. Everyone expects morgs Q not W is a new CC. It takes a lot of gold, and that's why no FRQ.
Edit: I also never go Sorc Shoes or Mobi boots, I go Ionian Boots, can I get you opinion on that? :) Thanksssss!!!
I'll be honest, I like to go full AP myself - especially when I'm messing around in normals with friends, heh - but Deathcap is such a big money dump, it's hard to get enough gold as a support to finish it. Instead I usually go Morello or Abyssal (since they do still have some teamfight utility), and then if I still have a lot of gold, maybe Rylai's or Liandry's.
When I play Morg in ranked though, I almost always go utility - so Zhonya's --> Locket --> Frozen Heart, etc. Mikael's, Banshee's, and Thornmail are all pretty niche items actually, and I generally only get them if I'm going against specific champions. Locket and Frozen Heart are useful 90% of the games, so it's almost always worth grabbing them as soon as you have enough gold for it.
The boots were outdated because this guide hadn't been updated in months. They should be fixed now :)
Yesterday we fought against burst AP and CC team and I went EoW, Mobility shoes, Banshee, Solari, Zhonya and solari. Their ADC wasn't really strong so I went heavy MR build. I ended up having most kill and least death lol
She's a good niche tho. And obviously one of the scarier supports the lower you venture in the ladder.
Not to mention, Black Shield has a lower and lower cooldown with each rank, whereas Tormented Shadow remains constant. This means that once you max out your E, it will have a 34.78% lower cooldown than at rank 1 (math: (23 sec - 15 sec) / (23 sec total)). This is in directly contrast with a maxed out W, which will have a 0% lower cooldown than at rank 1 (math: (10 sec - 10 sec) / (10 sec total).
In addition, Morg's W is primarily a pushing/farming tool — NOT a damage one. As a support, your priority will always be utility, because damage is nothing more than a luxury. Morg's W will only be effective so long as the target is on top of it, and many ADCs already have a blink/dash to get off of it within a second or two. In the off case where they don't, they still have their summoner spells to increase their movement speed ( Heal) or blink off ( Flash). This decreases the efficiency of W drastically, especially since you won't have any major AP items until mid game anyway, and that's only if you decide to go with the AP/Damage build path. Plus, those mid game AP items (if you decide to build them) won't even help the scaling of W very much, since it only has an 11% AP ratio, vs Black Shield's 70%.
Further decreasing the efficiency is the high mana cost. The cost nearly doubles from 70 mana to 130 mana with very little damage trade-off, and early game you don't want to burn through your mana pool too quickly, lest you not have any left for incoming ganks or all-in engages.
I tried this today and we won even though we looked like losing. Very useful when you have to protect assassin champs like katarina.