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Recommended Items
Spells:
Ignite
Flash
Items
Ability Order
Darkness Rise (PASSIVE)
Mordekaiser Passive Ability
Return Of The Warlord (Intro)

WELCOME
Hello guys, welcome to my

FOR WHICH LANE IS THIS BUILD FOR?
Bottom lane, but I think it won't take much effort into adjusting it for top lane, but for now, we stick to the bottom one.
WHY ANOTHER MORDEKAISER GUIDE
I tried some good (and some bad) guides, but none of them seemed to fit me. Every one was missing something and I didn't know what it is. So I adjusted my gameplay, took some ideas from pro players and here I am.
Anyway as a huge metal music fan, I feel it is my duty to explore this champion's abilities and push im into the spotlight. And also to help the others. I learned a lot from you guys, so now I try to give something back ;-)
VOTING
If you downvote, please leave a comment as well with some explanation, so I can fix the problems (if possible).
FUTURE
As I progress, I will keep this guide updated, so if you like it, keep checking from time to time. For now I'm polishing each chapter one by one, so if you see it coloured up, it means it's done for a time being.
WARNING
For now I'm not familiar with all the codes for making a nice guide (with all that fancy stuff), so please wait until I polish the visual part of the guide. Meanwhile, just enjoy the text.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE FUNNY CHAPTER NAMES?
Well, since


I looked carefuly to all the possibilities and I agree that this is the best choice:
Runes




MARK
I don't think there is better mark rune for

SEAL
As a fighter, this champion requires an armor and this one is the best we can get. However, if you play with a good support, or can take care of yourself, you may consider to buy 9x

GLYPH
Again - best scaling AP runes on the market. And since this is AP Carry build, we don't mind the scaling.
QUINTESSENCE
If you think 400 speed is enough for you and don't need those additional 25 you get from Quints, I can think of only one alternative - Health. While




I don't recommend


I'm not going to tell you what exactly to buy, as you will encounter different oponents in each game (more likely). So here is what I did - I put together the end-gear set, that we will aim to obtain. All the "starting" and "core" item sets you have to build according to which end-game items you would like to have in the end.
STARTING ITEMS
Item Sequence
















sight ward - good against ganks while you are squishy
Note: for most of the time I go for



CORE ITEMS
Item Sequence













kage's lucky pick - boosts AP and you get some gold for free








Note: only


END-GAME ITEMS
Item Sequence























End-gear note: For this build to work on 100%, here is the list of "a must" items:




With these you get 40% spell vamp which means insane life regen for you, you help your team with WotA aura and get 240 + 30% AP. And still you have 2 more free slots, so fill them with items from the rest of the end-gear list. As always - choose according to the actual situation in game.

With this build I go with 9/21/0 mastery tree, that looks like this:

I see plenty of people put a point into this mastery. To me it looks like a waste. While towerdiving or being anywhere near the tower, you should be either tanky enough to withstand 1 or 2 shots (full shield definately helps), or just don't do it. Also 5% doesn't seems like much, especially later in the game when you can running around towers like nothing's going on.
I recommend to spend that 1 point either in





This is how I see it:
WHY IN THIS ORDER:

This is our passive, can't boost it with ability points. But it's still one cool ability to have and it's maxed from the start! (now that was stupid, I know :-D)

Main ability of our hero. Good for harassing and getting your shield up, does great damage, so we want to max this one out ASAP.

Since you can max your ulti only on levels 6, 11 and 16, you are going to max this spell as your 2nd spell. It lasts for some time, does damage and constantly feeds your shield. If there is a bunch of creeps, you just use



It is an ulti. And as the summoner's law declares: "Thou shalt max your own ulti anytime possible, with any champion." And who are we to argue with the gods?

You can max this as a last spell, since it's a melee ability. For being useful, it requires you to come face to face to the enemy, which can not be always possible, since you are quite slow.
Note: it may be useful to use it on melee champions or tanks, so always think when allocating ability points, what is more useful to you at the time. Either shield for more protection, or mace for more agressive play.

This is an easy one:

Since our King of Metal has no means of escape whatsoever,


This spell is widely used to finish off low HP champions that are running away. Combine it with your

OTHER OPTIONS
I must say I don't recommend using anything else than



This can help you save some HP, if you are being focused or running away from the enemy. If you decide to take this, you may consider changing a skil tree to 8/22 by taking



Speed boost for escaping from the heat, or closing on on nearly dead enemies.

With this spell you can get rid of slows or other CC (crowd controll) abilities that enemies used on you.

Why should you gain speed, if you can decrease the speed of your enemy? Well, I never used this spell while playing



Even if you are not close enough (or have not enough strength) to secure a kill, cast your


Whenever you get a ghost pet, use him to it's maximum potential. Engage in teamfight, go take down a tower or help kill a


Control your pet by pressing ALT (or CTRL) and clicking with your right mouse button.
The best pets are either enemy tanks (can sustain some damage and deal one as well) or casters (as you get huge percentage of their AP). Try to get them, instead of easy kills like

Moe tips & tricks are on the way...

That's it for now, thanks for reading. Soon I'll be updating and polishing this guide so it will be more easy to read, will add some other insight and stuff I find useful for playing this champion (warding, farmiing, engaging the enemy).
Plans for near future:
- little revision of content
- info about farming
- info about warding
- info about gameplay
I hope you will give it a try and see for yourself what can this champion do in your game. Any comments and criticism is welcome.
Enjoy League of Legends and don't forgett that MISERY LOVES COMPANY!
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