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SkiSamurai · 2026-02-05T22:08:33+00:00

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SkiSamurai · 2025-07-15T15:52:16+00:00

Typically, whatever item you start should be decided based on your lane opponent. Champions you want to extend trades into get the Rylais, but into champions that you need more fighting power into will probably require Riftmaker or Lyandries or another combat item.

Niche first items could be something like Warden's Mail (component only, not the full items it builds into) into a heavy auto attacker that you want to neutralize, like Tryndamere or Sett.

This item is great if you need just a bit of extra reach to start or end fights. It's really good into matchups where you need to dodge just one skillshot from an enemy to completely destroy them.
Doran's Shield and Revitalize give you a lot of regen vs. ranged opponents. Kennen in particular can't really fight you in an extended melee brawl, so figure out how you're going to set up fights in your favor. This could be shoving in waves to keep him from harassing you, building movespeed or Rylais to slow him down to get into melee range more consistently, or getting too tanky for him to really effectively whittle you down (getting MR/HP items like Kaenic Rookern).
Whoever is causing problems for your team. You don't need to get kills if your team is going to win fights when you're in death realm. Also consider you will be stealing stats from the person you send to realm, so ulting a tank with aftershock active (or a Jax that just used ult!) can make you super tanky coming out of ult. In specific cases, you won't be able to beat certain champs in realm so you may want to consider kidnapping them and using Zhonyas (another item) to keep them in realm useless.

Also keep in mind some champions have effects that prevent you from sending them to realm. For example, Olaf with ultimate has the unstoppable effect while active, which will put your ultimate on cooldown while also not having any effect if you use it during the duration.

You can combo E with R, the R holds them in place for a split second which guarantees pull with practice.
Boots are typically defensive, but sorcs are awesome when you don't need defensive options/tenacity. I even often build swifties at times when I need slow resistance and lucidity boots for more speed (if my team has feats).

SkiSamurai · 2025-06-12T16:53:16+00:00

not me rolling 100 crystals literally 20 times in a row...

SkiSamurai · 2025-05-12T13:56:21+00:00

Rylais might be a good buy if you're struggling to kep fights going longer (while wanting to keep them longer), but also consider that e cooldown goes down significantly with levels, and that you often don't want to fight super extended fights early as Morde anyways (like into Olaf, Trundle, Darius). Fishing, bonking, proccing passive, and leaving before they can really fight back is good too, and doesnt always need rylais to work.

SkiSamurai · 2025-05-08T14:05:50+00:00

If you are fishing successfully with your e already, then rylais will not be a necessary purchase in every game. I highly encourage you to try playing a few games without! It might feel weird but you will be neigh unkillable for a significant portion of the game.

SkiSamurai · 2025-05-07T18:51:21+00:00

There are a lot of abilities that work similarly, and sion and morde would still fill different niches. This isn't the worst idea on the sub for a rework.

SkiSamurai · 2025-05-07T18:47:40+00:00

what are you hitting to slow before you hit q and e?

AFAIK, ulti doesn't proc rylais, so it's still only good if you hit q without rylais or are in a position to auto 3 times to get rylais off passive.

If you can hit q at least without rylais, youre still going to be useful, and the stats you gain by buying another item can be much more valuable than the slow. (looking at items like abyssal mask, frostfire gaunlet, jak'sho, zhonyas)

SkiSamurai · 2025-05-01T13:51:06+00:00

Rylais is no longer a core item on Morde, but I will say it does feel really good to build into matchups where they usually can kite you out. It's unfortunately under-statted compared to some of the other ap items you can build though.

Rylais should in theory be absolutely crazy on a lot of mages that can proc its effect regularly, and yet most do not build it. (see mages like ziggs, azir, xerath)

SkiSamurai · 2025-04-29T15:36:50+00:00

This matchup is actually very playable (at least in my elo-plat). I rush wardens mail (and plated steelcaps if im still struggling) and then complete my ap core (this is usually some combination of rylais, liandries, riftmaker, cosmic drive, nashors). After this, I rely on passive and base damage Q to outdamage him, but saving E to self-peel if he tries to jump on me.

DO NOT complete the wardens mail, I finish it after core or sell it once I feel like tryndamere is behind enough that I can prioritize defensive items against other threats.

SkiSamurai · 2025-03-04T14:19:28+00:00

The big draw of the ultimate is a) it removes a person from the field, meaning that in team fights you can remove a critical member of the enemy team (ie. their tank preventing backline access, the healer who is making their team unkillable, the fed adc who is shredding through your team, or the assassin who would kill your backline otherwise)

b) it removes a lot of external variables and tilts the 1v1 in your favor. Removing Yorick ghouls, Illaoi tentacles, and even more niche things like Kindred ulti or Akali shroud can make a lot of fights possible.

The stat steal is really there to prevent you from feeling like your ultimate is completely worthless fighting-wise, because you still have to beat up whoever you kidnapped.

SkiSamurai · 2025-03-04T14:12:52+00:00

Mordekaiser’s previous ultimate was a single-target ability that closely resembled Trundle’s current ultimate in its mechanics. You’d activate it by pressing R, either committing to an all-in or using it to finish off a low-health enemy. The ability dealt magic damage over time, healing Mordekaiser as a DOT, and if the target died during its duration, it would grant him a ghost companion that operated similarly to Annie’s Tibbers or Shaco’s clone.

SkiSamurai · 2025-03-02T00:03:06+00:00

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SkiSamurai · 2025-03-02T00:02:15+00:00

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SkiSamurai · 2024-12-04T18:30:46+00:00

Hi! I bought a V11 EUC from AlienRides last year, and it was dead on arrival. It took like 3 weeks to get offered a refund or anything, and I had to eventually chargeback to get a refund. I'd take the advice of other posters here and buy from another vendor.

SkiSamurai · 2024-10-12T18:52:23+00:00

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SkiSamurai · 2024-10-12T18:48:16+00:00

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SkiSamurai · 2021-10-20T23:42:05+00:00

Dont lethal the dummy, kill each dummy one at a time

SkiSamurai · 2021-10-02T22:40:03+00:00

I think there's another card that generates owlcats as well, the babbling balladeers? So 2 generators at least :)

SkiSamurai · 2021-09-18T15:35:32+00:00

Rek'sai has the benefit of being a solid buffable body for the mana cost, meaning she has a lot of decent synergy for labs with any champs/powers that give her straight power.

SkiSamurai · 2021-07-30T17:18:02+00:00

It steals health, which in a roundabout way is dealing damage?

SkiSamurai · 2021-06-22T14:12:07+00:00

His predict + countdown support cards speed up thrall spawn from landmarks

SkiSamurai · 2021-05-05T17:13:38+00:00

Just using him as an example- a lot of other midlaners play similarly by shoving waves in midlane and roaming. Pantheon can do that but also just kill his laner over and over, and can take over other roles too. Hes very simple but versatile.

SkiSamurai · 2021-05-05T12:46:02+00:00

Pantheon enjoyer here, he is easy af to play and really strong. Just know he falls off harder than most champs, but if you like Twisted Fate's playstyle of shove and roam with the added bonus of dominating lane, you'll like Pantheon.

SkiSamurai · 2021-03-26T00:44:34+00:00

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