been trying out triple giant belt into warmogs more recently and I do think it's better than I initially thought, although definitely overrated. The issue I have with rushing current warmogs, is its a much more expensive spike. The main benefit warmogs has if rushed is it gets you plates, although this is obviously harder to do now with a more expensive spike. So you need to be ahead to capitalize on this aspect of warmogs, yet if you're ahead you should just be rushing heartsteel to keep bullying/dominating. So its a case of "It feels decent" but logistically I can't think of any situation outside of super niche stuff (into tryndamere/illaoi/sett for example) you would do it. I think triple giant belt into warmogs has a lot more merit on champions that don't rely on heartsteel as much like sejuani/skarner top, although its definitely still at the very least not terrible on us. It is definitely what you should be doing if you go phase rush although recently I haven't been going phase rush as much since the meta shifted away from the champions it is good into

as for warmogs versus a resist item second: if you played mundo in the mythic era, think of it like when the decision was "alright, I finished my heartsteel. Do I go titanic now, or a tank item?" Warmogs new role is just a damage item, so in build paths you should treat it as such. Therefore it is worse in teamfights but better in the sidelane/extending a lead. Generally if I am very far ahead I go warmogs second to push my lead, if I am very far behind I go warmogs to just perma split, and if I am doing alright-ish I just go deadmans/unending second. I am very aggressive on mundo so the majority of my games I go warmogs right now, but if you are a more passive player I'd assume the superior choice would be a tank item most of the time. Hope this helps

Hey! Sorry for the late reply! Thank you for the kind wordS :) it is highly preferable to w before ulting, although often times I will take a short-trade with w and then shortly after the enemy will make a mistake so I will go in despite not having w up. It is a great combo, but not 100% necessary. Hope that helps!

This was my general consensus of rune setups when I was more into comparing my stuff with other mundos:

grasp was the default in 95% of games

phase rush was extremely niche but decent into matchups like fiora

unsealed spellbook in situations like you've described (you need raw all-in power, resolve runes don't work that well, grasp isn't being proceed, etc.)

Now, I was a believer in the inspo setup in the same way they were, except instead of unsealed spellbook I pivoted towards first strike. This was back when you reaching item spikes before your enemy laner mattered more instead of playing mundo as just the resource inhaling side-lane demon into teamfight monster that he is currently in most games. I.E. it was a lot better when warmogs rush was a thing

I just never liked unsealed spellbook because it usually made it really obvious what you were trying to do. If I switch to ignite I'm obviously gonna all-in, if I switch to exhaust the enemy junglers just gonna call the gank off etc. I still think it was a decent rune and a playstyle thing, BUT:

the introduction of axiom arcanist made phase rush wayyyyyy better to the point where I take it more often than grasp now. Axiom Arcanist is already at least an A-S tier subrune for mundo but more importantly it was in a row that otherwise is usually terrible. The only other option used to be nimbus cloak which is barely a rune on tp champs (or really anyone besides junglers and hexflash users tbh)

so I have since retired my first strike (and hence any inspo primary builds) for the time being since in any situation I would have taken it over grasp, phase rush is better. Grasp and Phase Rush are really the only two rune pages you need right now since they just overshadow everything else way too hard. If they ever nerf phase rush I could see inspo primary coming back since grasp will just never be able to be taken 100% of games. But otherwise I personally think its outdated now

great to hear you've been liking the guide! Thank you!

Looking at your stats it looks like you're rocking the mundo even in this season so good job on that. I have had trouble making him work lol his mid game feels a lot worse now which I am still trying to circumvent, although frankly he just desperately needs compensation buffs with warmosg being unbuildable now.

In terms of a deadmans second item, I have seen people doing this and I've tried it out a few times. Heartsteel into deadmans feels really strong as an alternative to the old armor rush into full AD teams (which went old unending despair second) so definitely do it there. I'm not totally convinced its just his new build path though, as if there is even one early ap threat you pretty much just cant teamfight. The combo you mentioned sounds nice but deadmans alone is not fixing mundos awful disengage, at least in high elo. Furthermore unfortunately mundos base AD is pretty bad which is the main part of the item people keep raving about. Not saying its bad, just haven't done much testing yet and these are my thoughts, I'm honestly just waiting for some kind of mundo or mundo item buff to come out before fully discovering his new build paths as I don't find it very productive to do when a champion is very under or overpowered. And a quick word of advice, new unending is currently very weak on anyone besides sion or chogath. You need 7k HP to make it as good as it was before and mixed resistances this small are usually a net nerf. It's still probably FINE on mundo fourth but only if you go visage third. Second can be deadmans like you said, or maybe a titanic, warmogs is dead though.

Yes, I would love to hear your thoughts on matchups! Its always been a little weird to me that I am writing him from high elo experience when the majority of mundo players arent high elo. I want the guide to be as helpful as possible so I do plan on eventually making two separate matchup sheets. Id appreciate your help on it!

Thanks :)

EDIT: just checked, apparently axiom arcanist is going to work next patch for mundo. Looks like me dming abunch of riot staff on twitter about it worked lmfao we are BACK. Ill update the guide once I test a bit on the new patch, phase rush is definitely the new meta

currently revamping the whole thing since quite a lot has changed. I'm also not totally sure what direction his build path should take as currently he is just very bad. But yes don't worry I will make a full update as soon as possible

the standard build showcased (heartsteel -> unending -> spirit visage -> situational tank items) is best for teamfighting, which is why it is the standard. I would avoid warmogs if you want the best teamfight possible.