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Mordekaiser Build Guide by Phemeth

AP Carry Phemeth's Guide - Time to Shred - In-depth [S4]

AP Carry Phemeth's Guide - Time to Shred - In-depth [S4]

Updated on July 28, 2014
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Phemeth (14) | October 29, 2014 4:53am
The guide is currently bugged. Use this temporaney guide instead: http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/phemeths-guide-time-to-shred-in-depth-s4-new-401212
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Phemeth (14) | October 13, 2014 11:44am

Nice guide. I didn't played Modekaiser for about 1 year cause of his nerf but it seems that he is still op:

GJ Mate
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Kurzer Prozess | October 7, 2014 4:48am
Nice guide. I didn't played Modekaiser for about 1 year cause of his nerf but it seems that he is still op:
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Phemeth (14) | July 28, 2014 4:13pm
zomac wrote:

Why don't you use dethfire grasp as basic item and you recommend liandry's torment which deals damage based on current health while you're trying to kill a low-hp target and practically forces you to buy rylai or hextech to have the extra damage?


The core item build is just an example of oridinary build on Mordekaiser which can be build in any situation aginst most laners. DFG is a really offensive choice and yo ucannot go for that if you ahven't enough money to afford that purchase due to being bullied in lane or camped by jungler. So it's not "core".

Sorcerer's Shoes and Hextech Revolver is the real "core" of a Mordekaiser build yo ucan0t skip them and they synergize extremely well with your needs. Haunting Guise is really good right afetr, but it's expensive and has no real upgrade in msot game you maye want to rush Hextech Gunblade, Rylai's Crystal Scepter or Deathfire Grasp, instead still a great early pick agaisnt any lane opponent.

TotemTiki wrote:

So, I read through the matchups section and found some errors. +1 Not to be rude or anything. Really Good Guide
Annie
This is a medium match up. Annie is a burst AP carry with high basic skill damages and AP ratios. Her Cooldown are not so long too. The skill make Annie scary is Pyromania which allow her to stun for 1.25 second every damaging skill cast after 3 previous Annie's skills. However her ranges are short (625 units)
625 is the longest AA range in the game, and carry or caster?
Brand
This is a medium match up. Brand is a burst AP carry
Brand is more of an caster
Cassiopeia
This is an hard match up. Cassiopeia is an AP bruiser with low Cooldown and
Cass a bruiser?
Cho’Gath
This is a very hard match up. Cho'Gath is an high sustain AP tank due to Carnivore with high AP ratios medium Cooldowns and high melee damages ( Vorpal Spikes. In addition he can stack Health with Feast. It's a real counter for Mordekaiser you can't just jump in his face and shut him down, but you need to farm safely and harass when you can. Try to not push too much the lane or he'll sit under tower. Every time you'll try to [Siphon of Destruction]] him you'll get silenced by Feral Scream. Get Sorcerer's Shoes as soon as possible in order to increase your chances to dodge Rapture. Look for jungler help to win the lane. Beware to engage him in a melee fight his Vorpal Spikes hit hard.
Rapture instead of Rupture, [Siphon of Destruction]]
Diana
This is an easy match up. Diana is a melee AP burst tank which relies on her
Diana a tank?
Elise
This is an easy match up. Elise is a ranged/melee AP tank based
Elise a tank?
Evelynn
This is a very easy match up. Evelynn is a melee AP bruiser
Evelynn is an assassin
Fizz
An easy match up. Fizz is a melee AP bruiser
Fizz can be more described like an assassin
Galio
. His Bulwark amkes him really… Abyssal Scepter works icnredibly well agaisnt Galio reducing his MR and AP.
makes, icnredibly, agaisnt, Does Abyssal Mask reduce the AP from his passive?
Karma
This is an easy match up. Karma is a ranged AP bruiser
Karma is a bruiser?
Karthus
This is an easy match up. Karthus is a ranged AP bruiser…Coordinate with your jungler to steal his blue and be carful about ganks.
Karthus is not a bruiser; carful?
Kassadin
This is a medium match up. Kassadin is a melee AP bruiser with high AP ratio and skills' base damage. Kassadin is an AP killer which relies on his ultimate Riftwalk. His Null Sphere silence the target
Kassadin is an assassin, and Null Sphere does not silence anymore
Orianna
It's a medium match up. Orianna is a ranged AP bruiser with
Orianna is a bruiser?
Ryze
. Ryze is a ranged AP mana based Tank
Ryze is a tank?
Swain
This is a very hard match up. Swain is a ranged AP Tank
Swain is a tank?


Thansk for this comment and the very in-deapg reading of the guide. If you find any mroe error I'd be glad to correct them. Most errors are caused by my distrations so It's really helpfull to have someone to notew and reprot them
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TotemTiki (2) | July 27, 2014 2:17am
So, I read through the matchups section and found some errors. +1 Not to be rude or anything. Really Good Guide
Annie
This is a medium match up. Annie is a burst AP carry with high basic skill damages and AP ratios. Her Cooldown are not so long too. The skill make Annie scary is Pyromania which allow her to stun for 1.25 second every damaging skill cast after 3 previous Annie's skills. However her ranges are short (625 units)
625 is the longest AA range in the game, and carry or caster?
Brand
This is a medium match up. Brand is a burst AP carry
Brand is more of an caster
Cassiopeia
This is an hard match up. Cassiopeia is an AP bruiser with low Cooldown and
Cass a bruiser?
Cho’Gath
This is a very hard match up. Cho'Gath is an high sustain AP tank due to Carnivore with high AP ratios medium Cooldowns and high melee damages ( Vorpal Spikes. In addition he can stack Health with Feast. It's a real counter for Mordekaiser you can't just jump in his face and shut him down, but you need to farm safely and harass when you can. Try to not push too much the lane or he'll sit under tower. Every time you'll try to [Siphon of Destruction]] him you'll get silenced by Feral Scream. Get Sorcerer's Shoes as soon as possible in order to increase your chances to dodge Rapture. Look for jungler help to win the lane. Beware to engage him in a melee fight his Vorpal Spikes hit hard.
Rapture instead of Rupture, [Siphon of Destruction]]
Diana
This is an easy match up. Diana is a melee AP burst tank which relies on her
Diana a tank?
Elise
This is an easy match up. Elise is a ranged/melee AP tank based
Elise a tank?
Evelynn
This is a very easy match up. Evelynn is a melee AP bruiser
Evelynn is an assassin
Fizz
An easy match up. Fizz is a melee AP bruiser
Fizz can be more described like an assassin
Galio
. His Bulwark amkes him really… Abyssal Scepter works icnredibly well agaisnt Galio reducing his MR and AP.
makes, icnredibly, agaisnt, Does Abyssal Mask reduce the AP from his passive?
Karma
This is an easy match up. Karma is a ranged AP bruiser
Karma is a bruiser?
Karthus
This is an easy match up. Karthus is a ranged AP bruiser…Coordinate with your jungler to steal his blue and be carful about ganks.
Karthus is not a bruiser; carful?
Kassadin
This is a medium match up. Kassadin is a melee AP bruiser with high AP ratio and skills' base damage. Kassadin is an AP killer which relies on his ultimate Riftwalk. His Null Sphere silence the target
Kassadin is an assassin, and Null Sphere does not silence anymore
Orianna
It's a medium match up. Orianna is a ranged AP bruiser with
Orianna is a bruiser?
Ryze
. Ryze is a ranged AP mana based Tank
Ryze is a tank?
Swain
This is a very hard match up. Swain is a ranged AP Tank
Swain is a tank?
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zomac | July 4, 2014 2:02am
Why don't you use dethfire grasp as basic item and you recommend liandry's torment which deals damage based on current health while you're trying to kill a low-hp target and practically forces you to buy rylai or hextech to have the extra damage?
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NommyPancake (5) | June 27, 2014 7:47pm
ah okey, thanks for the help ^_^

Now I am doing practice with Mordekaiser X3
Hopefully I could get used to his kit :3
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Phemeth (14) | June 27, 2014 4:25pm

ah okey~

Me also have some question about starting items :3

As mid Lane, you recommend Boots. What do you think of starting with Doran's Shield?


As weak early Mid laner Mordekaiser needs survivability and Doran's Shield doesn't offers a lot of it anymore... ofc it's block is really a great passive since any ranged Mid laner will be auto attacking you and the 6 Health regen isn't that bad, but 3 more pots are a lot more reliable than a Doran's Shield for very early game.

It will not even be enough to balance your Health costs on Siphon of Destruction so in my opinion if you aren't goign to get a perfect cs score and back as soon as you get 1200 gold it's a really risky start. Just my opinion tho.

These are your start options:

1) Boots is the best start since gives you survivability and a little more chance to dodge skilshiots and avoid ganks with the MS bonus, in addition it makes your build path faster since you can rush Sorcerer's Shoes right after Hextech Revolver.

2) Cloth Armor is a great start when you're going to face AD laner and jungler. You can upgrade it into Seeker's Armguard. The five pot and Armor will gives you a lot of sustain and makes your Iron Man tougher agaisnt physical damage.

3) Rejuvenation Bead, 2 Stealth Ward and 4 pots is a really outdated start but in my opinion is the safest. You got almost Doran's Shield Health Regen and your sustain is really big with 4 pots moreover there no chance you'll get ever ganked and if they do but you plant wards correctly there's no way you'll get killed at least for first 10 minutes. The biggest problem is Rejuvenation Bead can't be upgraded and it scales really bad through game since Health Regeneration becomes almost
unnecessary when you grab Spell Vamp still a great stat, but not as good as in early stages.

4) Doran's Shield I just realised answering this question it's more than a viable pick agaisnt ranged AP auto attackers ( Nidalee not Karthus). Anyway it's a lot better in long sustain battles than in heavy short early trades so you want to if you are going to play a more passive kind of lane and you find it useful against your opponent since he will auto you a lot and, and may try to burst you down.

Doing few maths if you can stay alive until the 10th minute in lane and then back you will get 576 Health from Doran's Shield's Health Regeneration which is sightly better than 3 red pots (450 HP for 45 seconds) if you add the 80 HP bonus and the block passive it's really great if you are able to stay alive without risking much.

= bigger chance to dodge skillshots + teamporaney Health regen = good against strong early laners/skillshot based champions.
= bigger sustain over time + block passive = good agaisnt ranged weak early laners
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NommyPancake (5) | June 27, 2014 7:29am
ah okey~

Me also have some question about starting items :3

As mid Lane, you recommend Boots. What do you think of starting with Doran's Shield?
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Phemeth (14) | June 27, 2014 3:07am

Heelow Phemeth ^_^

Me have some question about your guide OwO

While you have the Haunting Guise in the "CORE ITEMS PURCHASE ORDER",
you don't have the Liandry's Torment in the "BUILD EXAMPLE".

Is that mean that Liandry's Torment are not the "must-item" for Mordekaiser?
(As compared it to spell-vamp item)


Also I am thinking about taking Mordekaiser as one of my mid champ (I don't main mid)
For someone (meh) who prefers to use Diana and Heimerdinger as mid champ,
do you have Mordekaiser is good for meh? :3


I like using Diana mid because she's a bit tanky compared to other mage/assassin.
I like using Heimerdinger because of his turret set-up, allowing him to farm safe.

I generally don't mind a champ with weak early game, as long as I don't have to do button meshing with that champ >:3


Hello dear mate,

Thanks for your comemnt I'll try to explain myself as best as I can, but feel free to ask more if you don't understand anything of my thought process or the guide itself :)

1) You're right about the Haunting Guise it's not a "must item", but for laning phase it's extremely good since most Mid laners, except some assasins has no Magic Resist scaling, but just 30 flat base MR, adding 9 flat Greater Glyph of Magic Resist they got 43 MR in the worst case it means you can rush Hextech Revolver --> Sorcerer's Shoes + Haunting Guise and deal them almsost magic-true damage.

In addiction the recent nerf on Athene's Unholy Grail made this pick even more powerful since that 25 MR is a lot less than 40 and will be a less common pick on Mid laners. Generally speaking if the enemy laner gets MR it's better stack AP if they dont' stacking Mpen worth a lot more than AP because you can do greater damage with better cost efficeincy.

As the note in Core items says Haunting Guise can be bought or skipped and later it may be sold or upgraded to Liandry's Torment depeding to the situation. You dont' want to buy that item if you think the enemy team will not go for Health and the Mid laner will get a Negatron Cloak or rush some sort of early Magic Resist. It's up to you.

Examples: - Yasuo has 30 flat MR amnd he will go for straight dps so rushing Haunting Guise and then Sorcerer's Shoes (because he has no problem to catch up to you and has no big unpredictable skill shots to dodge) is the way to go. Later on if you feel Liandry's Torment would be unnecessary sell Haunting Guise to free an other slot.
- Lux is a big pain with no flat MR, but if she's not brain damaged she'll rush Chalice of Harmony which combined with her Prismatic Barrier will grant her some tankiness against Magic damage. Then go for AP maybe a DFG if you want to try to kill her or Rylai's Crystal Scepter to survive her burst and just farm. In this case you want to skip Haunting Guise.

2) Mordekaiser is as good as any other Mid laner, but he exels at counter specific harass absed champions. He coutners about 1/3 of the Mid laner because of Iron Man. If you want to use it Mid lane it's completely fine in low mid elo, but I don't reccomend using him in medium-high+ elo.

- Diana is not really as near tank as Mordekaiser and differently form him she has great early-mid game, but poor late game due to her beign a melee fighter-assasin with no escapes, morever she's very easy to predict and counter with champions like Thresh.
- Heimerdinger is a great lane bully with solid laning phase but he scales poorly in the game and has no escapes, I don't like much this champ, but I have to admit he can really carry games if used properly.

League of Legends is an evolving game with different kind of heros, due to this constant evolution it may seem unfair, but it tends to balance so the choice is really up to you because you should never find a champion who has less possiblity to win a game if mastered. Even Urgot can carry games if played by an Urgot main.

Phemeth.
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NommyPancake (5) | June 26, 2014 7:37pm
Heelow Phemeth ^_^

Me have some question about your guide OwO

While you have the Haunting Guise in the "CORE ITEMS PURCHASE ORDER",
you don't have the Liandry's Torment in the "BUILD EXAMPLE".

Is that mean that Liandry's Torment are not the "must-item" for Mordekaiser?
(As compared it to spell-vamp item)


Also I am thinking about taking Mordekaiser as one of my mid champ (I don't main mid)
For someone (meh) who prefers to use Diana and Heimerdinger as mid champ,
do you have Mordekaiser is good for meh? :3


I like using Diana mid because she's a bit tanky compared to other mage/assassin.
I like using Heimerdinger because of his turret set-up, allowing him to farm safe.

I generally don't mind a champ with weak early game, as long as I don't have to do button meshing with that champ >:3
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Phemeth (14) | June 23, 2014 1:57pm

Epic guide, ive been using this since i started ranked and whenever i have a morde game, I lose only if I get hard countered. just one question tho, what items should you buy if its wayyy late game and u have like 6k gold? I just spammed rabadons to good effect. Any advice?


If you are next to end game with tons of spare money just be sure to have something simlar to shose builds:

best build for burst/dps while having both Zhonya and GA
best build to max out your survivability and Ghost dps

These are the two best end game general builds imo. The first is the best one. Anyway put Sorcerer's Shoes 99% of games if you feel they got too much CC go for Mercury's Treads.

You can sell Hextech Revolver for Spirit Visage is the enemy team is heavily AP focused.
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