Counterplay
Patch 26.16SketchCounter Morgana
The opponents who give Morgana trouble, and how to handle each one.
Where these numbers come from
They are pulled from the mode's own files for patch 26.16, the one currently live. The source is community-run rather than an official Riot API, and the game shifts with community votes, so a gap with your own game is always possible.
She has more entries than you have shields. Your shield cancels her first opening, not the second, so the goal isn't to win the trade, it's to refuse it: hold spacing outside her engage range and stand so that she has to go through your carry to reach you. Drop Tormented Soil between her and you, not on her, and keep Dark Binding strictly for the moment after she commits. If your carry is immobile by nature, this is a lane you play for farm and nothing else.
She has more entries than you have shields. Your shield cancels her first opening, not the second, so the goal isn't to win the trade, it's to refuse it: hold spacing outside her engage range and stand so that she has to go through your carry to reach you. Drop Tormented Soil between her and you, not on her, and keep Dark Binding strictly for the moment after she commits. If your carry is immobile by nature, this is a lane you play for farm and nothing else.
You won't kill him and he won't kill you, so the lane is decided on the carries. He heals his faster than Tormented Soil chips it, so stop burning mana on poke that goes nowhere and save everything for the windows when his stun is down. Your shield eats that stun, which is your one real opening: pre-place it when you see him step up, then root the enemy carry while his support has no answer left.
You won't kill him and he won't kill you, so the lane is decided on the carries. He heals his faster than Tormented Soil chips it, so stop burning mana on poke that goes nowhere and save everything for the windows when his stun is down. Your shield eats that stun, which is your one real opening: pre-place it when you see him step up, then root the enemy carry while his support has no answer left.
His entire game rides on one ability, and you hold the button that erases it. Keep the shield on your carry whenever he sets up behind a brush, and remember he can just as easily target you. A cancelled hook leaves him with nothing for a long stretch: that's your window to root and shove the lane to steal levels off him. Do respect his close-range silence though, it stops you casting the shield after the fact, so place it before, never after.
His entire game rides on one ability, and you hold the button that erases it. Keep the shield on your carry whenever he sets up behind a brush, and remember he can just as easily target you. A cancelled hook leaves him with nothing for a long stretch: that's your window to root and shove the lane to steal levels off him. Do respect his close-range silence though, it stops you casting the shield after the fact, so place it before, never after.