What is Mourn's Ult for?

[past cedar]

I like any form of global ultimate, but I legitimately can't figure out what I'm supposed to do with Mourn's ult. Which is a shame because otherwise I really like the character. Maybe one of my favorite supports .

On the topic at hand though, it sometimes might be useful in a teamfight by getting a fleeing opponent to run in the wrong direction or allow a teammate to escape if they have a movement ability that let's them get outside the vision area, but that's basically the only practical application I can think of. Even just using it for the movement boost is kinda bust because you're rooted while channeling it which pretty much just acts as a self-stun. Any distance I would gain from the movement boost is lost by rooting myself for like two seconds.

I legitimately don't understand in what situation I'm supposed to use this ult. Can any Mourn mains tell me what I'm missing?

[fiery mural]

The ult removes all vision from the team causing a lot of benefits to your team. You can be in offlane 1v1ing your opponent and your team is rotating into fang as they noticed the jungle and duo taking it, you pop it and your mid gets to rotate and your jungle and duo too. The enemy team can only react by either playing safe or seeing them directly, but no ward coverage or minimap access creates a much harder environment to navigate. You don’t even have to be at the fight to be effective in this case.

[past cedar]

That's it? I'm gonna use my ult to slow the enemy team's coordination by 4s? That's essentially worthless in solo queue.

[rose geyser]

GANKing, mourn is to isolate the enemy to take them one by one, reason he is bettre with magic

[rose geyser]

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[astral igloo]

Vision is king is MOBAs.

Being able to deny it for 4.5s can be really useful for certain plays

[fiery mural]

Yea idk what to say, if you think it’s not effective. A partial team fight can get wiped in 5 seconds or be wrapping up by the end of it. Also solo q has little impact on the outlook with open voice communication.

I think what is missing in your evaluation is a more competitive (sometimes correlates with higher rank) outlook on how to manipulate a situation to your benefit

[harsh estuary]

also it stops muriel ult

since she cant lock onto someone while blinded

its also good for farming assists

if u know ur team is about to contest an obj or tower it is a fantastic tool to use

[inland imp]

Those 4s are valuable in a teamfight. Its effective at isolating targets alongside your team and a single kill can turn the tide of the teamfight.

[past cedar]

True. I hadn't considered that.

[past cedar]

The issue I see is this isn't blinding. People don't lose the ability to navigate. You can try to slow reenforcements but if they were less than 4.5 seconds they will probably arrive to help because they still know where they are in relation to where they were going. If they were more than 4.5 seconds away it is probably more useful since the fight can move further before they arrive limiting their ability to course correct. But again isn't not like they're going to get lost. Realisticly you're only slowing their arrival by maybe 1-2 extra seconds.
Generally though this has been my strategy using the ult already. Just pop it any time a teamfight occurs and hope it helps somebody.

Creating confusion among the enemy team is definitely useful. I'm not gonna argue that it's not. The issue I see is that unless you made a plan beforehand and everyone knows when you're going to use it, it's such a short duration that your team likely won't even take advantage of it. And that's assuming PUGs will even listen to you.

Also you can be verbose but don't think I can't tell that you just told me, "Skill issue".

[harsh estuary]

also in lower ranks it confuses and scares the enemy

sometimes ill pop it if i think their team is looking to contest or gank

so they get scared and back away

psychological warfare is key

if i really cant find a use for it ill just pop it randomly lol

[past cedar]

Like I said, I've pretty much just been using it any time I see a team fight happening (even if I'm not there) and hoping that it'll cause enough confusion to help somebody do something. But it can't be optimal to just throw it out there and hope it makes somebody run the wrong way.

[terse glacier]

It's exceptionally good for situational ganks let's say against howitzer or skylar. Defensively they are really good IF they use their abilities well. When you take away their vision then wham you get better odds at their mistakes and then more favor in your fights

[rose geyser]

You can only aim what you see, so when active just being out of their vision can help you get away of ability, also don't always use it on team fight, or more say, use it near the end of it, you can then run way faster and capture one of them and start the cleaning

[past cedar]

As I said in the original post, the speed boost is countered by the channeling. You can't move for like 2 seconds which allows time for opponents to either catch up or get away and the subsequent speed boost isn't enough to make up that lost time. At the highest level the speed boost may be high enough to allow you to come out positive but probably only barely.