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Runes: Standard Mordekaiser
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
Flash
Teleport
Items
Ability Order
Darkness Rise (PASSIVE)
Mordekaiser Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Olaf
Ugh, Olaf. This is one of if not the worst matchups for Mordekaiser. Olaf can just run you down the entire laning phase, heal through your passive with his W, and he can cleanse Death Realm with his ultimate. Ask to swap lanes or pray for a camp.
Kindred
Mordekaiser succeeds in 2v2 / 3v3 skirmishes. Which tends to happen a lot with KIndred due to her marks. You can also Death Realm the enemy jungler to guarentee Kindred is able to secure her marks.
Kindred
Mordekaiser succeeds in 2v2 / 3v3 skirmishes. Which tends to happen a lot with KIndred due to her marks. You can also Death Realm the enemy jungler to guarentee Kindred is able to secure her marks.
Champion Build Guide

If you like metal, hulking suits of armor, big weapons, being a lord of death, and crushing your enemies' dreams with an iron fist, then Mordekaiser is the champion for you. Mordekaiser is a brute-force style champion that wants to get in the middle of fights and isolates single targets with his ultimate. Mordekaiser can do these things because he is the only champion in LoL that has potentially constant AoE damage. In addition, he is the only AP Juggernaut in the game. Mordekaiser is mostly played as a Top Laner. However, Mid Mordekaiser and Jungle Mordekaiser are both viable as well.
In this guide, we will go over Pros and Cons, Abilities, Item Builds, Match-ups, and even specific strategies you can apply to your games.
For more resources, I highly recommend you check out the Mordekaiser Mains Discord Server. There are many lovely people there (including myself) that would be happy to give you advice!
Links
Mordekaiser Mains Discord Server
Mordekaiser Mains Subreddit
Pros
+ Extremely strong in the Mid-Game
+ Lots of AoE magic damage
+ Very powerful ultimate
+ Can easily 1v5 if sufficiently fed
+ Very good at pub stomping low elo games
Cons
- No mobility
- Falls off hard late game
- Your ultimate can be nullified if the enemy buys

- Very bad at high elo
- Very little skill expression


Mordekaiser’s damaging abilities give him a stack of Darkness Rise. At 3 stacks a circle of metal shrapnel starts flying around Mordekaiser. Enemies in the shrapnel lose 1%-5% of their maximum HP per second. Mordekaiser also gains 3% bonus movement speed Basic attacks and damaging abilities. If Mordekaiser does not attack any enemies within 4 seconds Darkness Rise deactivates. In addition, Mordekaiser’s basic attacks scale with 40% of his ability power. In addition, Darkness Rise does bonus damage to neutral monsters.


Mordekaiser slams down Nightfall in a targeted area, dealing damage to everything in its radius. Obliterate does bonus damage if only one target is struck. Obliterate scales with 60% of Mordekaiser’s ability power.


Mordekaiser passively stores a potential shield. 35% of Mordekaiser’s damage is converted into his potential shield on his secondary resource bar. Mordekaiser’s potential shield decays by 8-25 every second when Mordekaiser has not attacked anything in 2 seconds. Activating W gives Mordekaiser a shield depending on how much potential shield he had stored, from 5% of his maximum health up to 30% of his maximum health. The shield lasts 4 seconds and starts decaying rapidly after the first second. Mordekaiser can reactivate W to heal for 40%-50% of his current shield.


Passively, Mordekaiser gains 5%-15% magic penetration. Upon activating Death’s Grasp, Mordekaiser pulls all enemies in its radius in a target direction and deals magic damage.


Mordekaiser slows an enemy champion by 75% for 0.5 seconds. If the target is still in range and is still visible to Mordekaiser, Mordekaiser banishes the target and himself to the Death Realm for 7 seconds. The Death Realm is a 1v1 arena where you are forced to either fight or evade Mordekaiser. Upon entering the Death Realm, Mordekaiser steals 10% of the enemy’s attack damage, ability power, total attack speed, maximum health, armor, magic resist, and size by 10%. If Mordekaiser kills the enemy champion, he keeps the stolen stats until they respawn. Enemies outside of the Death Realm cannot interact with those inside the Death Realm, and vice versa. Nobody can enter the Death Realm besides Mordekaiser and the targeted enemy. Units outside will see each other as spirits.








































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