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Mordekaiser
the Iron Revenant

Mordekaiser

Passive · Darkness Rise

After hitting an enemy 3 times, Mordekaiser surrounds himself with a damaging aura and gains movement speed.

DamageDurabilityMagicDifficultyMobilityCC
Champion profile (Riot)
  • Damage4
  • Durability6
  • Magic7
  • Difficulty4
  • Mobility3
  • CC8
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Primary

How to play as Mordekaiser

  • R (Realm of Death) on an isolated carry — steals their stats 1v1
  • Passive (Darkness Rise) — 3 abilities grants AOE damage + MS
  • Q (Obliterate) double damage on single target — open on a lone enemy
  • W (Indestructible) banks damage then releases as a shield — use before engage
  • Build Riftmaker first then Rabadon's Deathcap for AP burst
  • Vs AP buy Force of Nature, vs AD buy Thornmail

How to beat Mordekaiser

  • Don't get caught alone — R (Realm of Death) yanks you 1v1 for 7s
  • Buy Banshee's Veil or Quicksilver Sash to break out of R
  • Sidestep his E (Death's Grasp) pull
  • Buy Mercury's Treads vs his CC chain
  • Focus him first in fights — he tanks up fast with passive stacks
  • Mobile champs (Yasuo, Yone, Akali) counter his slow movement
Jungle

How to play as Mordekaiser

Jungle: track Scuttle, gank weak lanes, scale to objectives.

How to beat Mordekaiser

Jungle: ward objectives, never walk blind into brush.

Mid

How to play as Mordekaiser

Mid: shove wave fast and roam to side lanes.

How to beat Mordekaiser

Mid: watch for roams and save Flash for the next gank.

ADC

How to play as Mordekaiser

ADC: kite the frontline, hit the closest tank then the carries.

How to beat Mordekaiser

ADC: stay behind minions and focus the enemy ADC in fights.

Support

How to play as Mordekaiser

Support: keep vision + peel for ADC, build Locket Enchant + Knight's Vow.

How to beat Mordekaiser

Support: dodge hooks/engages, buy Mikael's into heavy CC.

Abilities

Darkness Rise

PC
Passive

Innate: Mordekaiser's basic attacks are empowered to deal 40% AP bonus magic damage on-hit.

Innate: Morderkaiser generates a stack for each enemy champion or large monster hit by his damaging basic attacks or basic abilities, lasting for 4 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits, and stacking up to 3 times. At 3 stacks, he gains Darkness Rise.

Darkness Rise: Mordekaiser gains 3 to 9 for% bonus movement speed and dealsto nearby enemies. Against monsters, the damage is capped at

Obliterate

PC
Q

Active: Mordekaiser strikes his mace down in a line in the target direction, dealing magic damage to enemies within, increased if only one enemy is hit.

Cooldown8 to 4Range625

Indestructible

PC
W

Passive: Mordekaiser stores 45% of the post-mitigation damage he deals and 7.5% of the pre-mitigation damage he takes,as Potential Shield on his secondary resource bar, up to 30% of his maximum health. The Potential Shield decays by 8 to 25% every second after not dealing or taking damage for 1 second. While Indestructible is not on cooldown, the Potential Shield will not decay below a minimum of 5% of his maximum health, and it will be set to that amount when it comes off cooldown if it was previously below it.

Active: Mordekaiser consumes his Potential Shield to grant himself a shield for the same amount for 4 seconds. The shield decays exponentially over the duration. Indestructible can be recast after 0.5 seconds while the shield is active.

Recast: Mordekaiser consumes the remaining shield, healing for a portion of the amount.

Cooldown12 to 8

Death's Grasp

PC
E

Passive: Mordekaiser gains magic penetration.

Active: Mordekaiser summons a claw in the target direction that grants sight of the area. After 0.5 seconds, it deals magic damage to enemies within and airborne them 250 units.

Cooldown18 to 10

Realm of Death

PC
Ultimate

Active: Mordekaiser aims his mace towards the target enemy champion, slow them by 75% and true sight them over the cast time, and then 20px|link= banishing them with him to the Death Realm for 7 seconds. Mordekaiser also consumes the target's soul for 7 seconds, heal himself for 10% of their maximum health and reducing their current attack damage, ability power, total attack speed, maximum health, armor, magic resist, and size by 10%, in addition to gaining them for himself. If the target dies while inside the Death Realm, Mordekaiser keeps their partial stats until they respawn.

Units between realms see each other as spirits, considering each other dead and negating any interactions between each other. Only Mordekaiser and the target will enter the realm; other champions cannot follow them. Everything that occurs inside the Death Realm is hidden to units outside of it, and vice versa. All pet still inside the realm are killed at its end.

Cooldown140 to 100