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Mordekaiser
Patch 16.2.1
TopDifficulty
Easy
Strength
Early
Mid
Late
Win Condition
Split-push to draw 2+ enemies to your lane, then use to kill one and escape or win the 1v2. In teamfights, isolate the enemy carry or jungler to ensure your team wins the objective or the fight.
Playstyle
An AP Juggernaut and ultimate duelist who thrives in the thick of combat. You are a raid boss that forces the enemy to fight on your terms by dragging them into a 1v1 they cannot win.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
- +Unmatched 1v1 potential once is available
- +High sustained magic damage through and
- +Innate tankiness and sustain provided by
- +Massive utility in objective fights by isolating the enemy jungler with
Weaknesses
- -Very susceptible to kiting due to lack of dashes or long-range CC
- -Missing leaves you with no way to force a fight
- -Extremely long early-game cooldowns, especially on and
- - can be countered by items like Quicksilver Sash or specific 'Unstoppable' abilities
Abilities
Landing three separate attacks or spells procs a damage aura. Stay in the fight to keep this active; the movement speed is your only way to keep up with mobile targets. Use it to burn through tanks.
Your primary damage tool. It deals significantly more damage if it hits only one target. Always aim to hit the enemy champion away from their minion wave to get that isolation bonus.
Stores damage dealt and taken as a shield. Do not use it as soon as it's up; wait until you've taken damage to maximize the shield size. Reactivate it only if you desperately need the health, as the shield is usually more valuable in a fight.
A versatile pull. It has a long cooldown, so don't throw it out randomly. It also grants passive Magic Penetration, which makes your and scale naturally against tanks.
Steals 10% of the target's core stats and traps them for 7 seconds. If you kill them, you keep those stats until they respawn. Use this to remove the biggest threat from a teamfight or to guarantee a kill on a vulnerable carry.
Teamfight Role
Frontline Disruptor and Carry Eliminator
Your job is to walk into the enemy team, soak damage with , and then use on the highest priority target. Once inside the realm, kill them to gain stats and reappear as an even stronger threat.
If your own carry is extremely fed and being dove by an assassin, use to peel the assassin away and save your teammate.
Combos
Standard Trade
→ → Auto-attack
The fastest way to proc . Pull them in, hit the isolated Q, and follow up with an auto to start the burn aura immediately.
The Death Zone All-In
→ → → Auto-attack
Pull the target into your range, then immediately cast while they are displaced. This ensures they cannot dash away before the dimension shift completes.
Q-Flash
→ Flash
Buffer and then Flash toward the enemy. This reduces their reaction time significantly compared to Flashing first and then casting Q.
Reverse Pull Escape
(cast in front of you while running)
While running away, cast in the direction you are moving. The back-end of the hitbox will push enemies away from you rather than pulling them toward you.
Power Spikes
| Spike | Why |
|---|---|
| Level 3 | You have access to your full kit and can finally proc reliably with the and combo. |
| Level 6 | is a massive power jump. You become almost impossible to gank because you can just turn the 1v2 into a 1v1 by ulting the weaker target. |
| Level 9 | is now maxed out, giving it a much lower cooldown and higher base damage, allowing you to spam it in extended trades. |
| Level 11 | The second point in reduces its cooldown, making you a constant threat in every mid-game skirmish. |
| Level 16 | Max rank and high passive Magic Pen from makes you a late-game juggernaut that very few champions can duel. |
Tips & Tricks
- •You can cast during the animation of to guarantee a hit if the pull lands.
- •Check the enemy inventory for Quicksilver Sash before using ; if they have it, wait for them to use it or ult someone else.
- •The passive on provides % Magic Penetration—you don't always need to build Void Staff.
- •Use right before taking a killing blow; the shield is massive and can bait enemies into taking bad tower dives.
- • stays active as long as you keep hitting something, including jungle monsters or minions.
- • creates a boundary. If you place it correctly near a wall, you can trap an enemy in a tiny corner where they can't dodge your .
Common Mistakes
- ✕Using for the heal in the middle of a fight.→You lose the shield and die to burst. The heal is much weaker than the shield value during combat.
- ✕Ulting a target who is 'Unstoppable' (e.g., Ornn W, Olaf R, Warwick Q).→The goes on full cooldown but the target is not pulled into the realm.
- ✕Fishing for pulls constantly in lane.→You lose your only peel/engage and are easily ganked while it's on its 18-second cooldown.
- ✕Fighting without proccing .→You lose a massive portion of your DPS and the movement speed needed to stick to targets.
- ✕Using on a target with no kill potential.→You waste the stat-steal and the isolation utility, leaving the enemy carries free to hit your team.
AI-generated guide • Patch 16.2.1 • Cached