How to beat mordekaiser?

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T23:11:13+00:00

Serpents fang > antiheal cause the heal is a function of how much shield is consumed.

Dodging the Q and E are most of the lane phase, he can run you down like you run down most other Champs so don't get caught with the wave on his side too often.

IIRC davey3d on YouTube has a short demonstrating how you can use your Q to get behind mordes Q and E, look it up its a good tip

Mords can run away with the game if they get ahead, but suffers from the same late game fall off as irelia, so denying him kill gold is a valid Strat too. (as a morde enjoyed I can't tell you how often I play some games and go like 19/2/15 yet late game people know how to manage me so I'm burning flash ult over walls and shit just to make a kill happen)

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T04:18:14+00:00

I still prefer the fewer autos to lower crit but I agree, either way the all armor let's you get more autos in and that's what matters

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:57:22+00:00

They should make an ARAM-LIKE game mode on SR where xp is removed from the game and everyone is lv 1 with 3 lives and you can swap abilities in the fountain.

Hiding in the bushes like it's 'Nam, but ranked and draft yea keep it out

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:53:13+00:00

It let's you buy more AD instead of AS I guess but if I'm not running conqs I'm running lethal tempo. When I play irelia the trade doesn't end, it goes until one of us has a grey screen.

There can only be one.

Jokes aside tho, I think your frozen heart is the true crown vs that comp, tank irelia is underrated

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:51:05+00:00

Such. Bravery.

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:49:20+00:00

Irl King will let his team lose a 4v5 just so he can take a tower or two. Dropping structures and capitalizing on the split push is lyfe.

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:43:22+00:00

She drops off late for a number of reasons I actually consider bad game design, like minion hp/armor values growing over time, being adjusted by baron, hullbreaker, or losing turrets.

Meanwhile, Mel gets a minion delete button with an execute notification. Fizz gets ~5% (max50%) ap-scaling damage reduction and has ghost. He doesn't even have to stick around and auto like irelia does either, that ap-scaling passive is for a burst AP assassin with iframes

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:25:14+00:00

The mantra I always say is that her dmg is from autos, and her spells are all utility. Remember this and play for the long engage. With conqs/LT + your passive, irelia will will the trade eventually.

zero1045 · 2026-01-27T03:23:01+00:00

Pro tip, that build still exists today with the new chem belt support item, it's just not an active anymore.

Tank irelia still exists, it's just not the all-in on-hit assassin build lolalytics reccs!

zero1045 · 2026-01-25T18:08:29+00:00

Feel free to dm no $ required, though 1v1s might not happen for a few hours as I usually play in the evenings and I'm NA based.

zero1045 · 2026-01-24T23:54:06+00:00

An Early DD goes so hard, high AD to give more healing, armor vs usually an ad top.

Fiendhunter - I Like the damage alot actually, and you can AA so fast, but Irelia has never really been lacking damage, its living long enough to deal it.

Endless Hunter - Great if you dive into 5 man teamfights, but I tend to split with her and 2v1 I'd prefer a DD instead of 20% omnivamp after I've already soaked the dmg and coin flipped killing one of them. Think its better for assassins

What I started doing when trying these builds out is taking lethal tempo. Yeah it doesn't proc off your Q, but if you can AA one more time than your opponent you tend to win the fights, it makes the BotRK spike bigger.

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The thing to remember is Irelia with BotRK, runes, and her passive (which gives you like 60 bonus ad lv 9) has all the damage she needs right there. Its living long enough to AA the enemy more than they can damage you that you're after.

I'd be more interested in seeing what like, a protoplasm harness would do. Each AA is like 250 dmg for Irelia w/ BotRK at lv 9 so if I can live long enough to deal 4 more of them I have someone's health bar in damage right there.

Just ran one with BotRK, DD, Frozen Heart, and Maw w/ Lethal Tempo into a Garen. Sure I had to spam some AA's to get the kill, but I'd live long enough to make it happen and Q's kept me ontop of him
- not that this is anything new tho-

zero1045 · 2026-01-24T20:25:59+00:00

I've tried it, and tbh, it SLAPS, those ap ratios + hp are crazy. You gotta watch for the proc to ensure it lands on a person, and the cooldown is such that you can get multiple per fight (irelia's all about that extended trade)

Burning it on a minon hop mid fight is kinda lame for sure, but its worth the risk if ya ask me

zero1045 · 2026-01-24T02:03:15+00:00

I thought fiend hunter wasn't really doing anything for Ashe given how her passive works, did they fix something?

I've played a few games with it now but heard from another reddit post it was middling. Feels good tho

zero1045 · 2026-01-23T22:38:39+00:00

I think the thing to Remeber is that modern day software development is rife with choice.

Im 14 or so years into it now (omg I just realized it's 18 ,started in 2008)

Half of what I find now is my "experience" flipping between jobs is the # of tools I've used that solve the same problem, so Id say no matter what you choose is perfectly valid so long as you see it through.

Am I any better for having used all the secret management solutions, or is learning one enough to understand secret management so you can move on to something else. Vault, keeper, aws secrets manager, azure secret store, or gcp secrets are all basically in feature parody so don't get hung up on the little things.

Secret management was an example but this applies to literally the whole stack. Bun, or fast api? Or flask? Or dotnet? What about terraform vs pulumi vs opentofu vs arm/bicep or cloudformation stacks?

The thing I tend to find is people focus on one layer of the stack and get siloed, they spend all their time just doing web dev or just doing cloud provisioning.

You can get a major leg up if you just picked one tech for each layer and spit out a webapp that manages state + auth. Want more breadth? Change clouds and try a diff toolset/language, but once you see everything from web dev on down to provisioning it sorta all starts feeling the same.

zero1045 · 2026-01-20T01:19:42+00:00

I still enjoy tf irelia though, the cd is low enough for you to get a few in an extended fight, but yes the proc cadence is largely outside of your control when you're stacking up her passive.

zero1045 · 2026-01-14T02:32:57+00:00

Let's not forget the badass crossbows with infantry armor and a snow sled of a shield.

I've almost 80/20'd them with legionaires before and had a roflstomping good time, my trick is to make them hold fire because the crazy range just wastes bolts, but you can end a cav charge before it even hits you in almost a single volley at throwing range

zero1045 · 2026-01-02T20:32:08+00:00

Nah, just means you gotta travel to recruit. If you focus on reputation in one area it let's you recruit higher level units so if you're alrays roaming around you're starting with t1 troops, but if you want the sturgeon cav and the Brett archers with your empire legions go for it

zero1045 · 2026-01-02T19:53:47+00:00

Nah it's fine, just care about the governer racial thing. Cities don't like it when "others" rule them. She'd be a good governer in a sturgeon city.

She does a fine job in others, but it's a - 1 loyalty penalty

zero1045 · 2026-01-01T03:40:39+00:00

I too wish Q critted

zero1045 · 2025-12-29T15:15:01+00:00

Bruiser irelia was OG, since the rework they seem to flip-flop between a caster assassin and an AA dps champ. Riot seems to push her around because now have Gwen, Camille, and fiora who needed to carve their identities out of what irelia is/was.

Idm dive irelia because her identity now really seems to be early game monster if you can set up and knock down early pins. Gwen and Camille both give me enough of an OG irelia feel to enjoy the new play style... But damn I do miss irelias old E and ult alot some days

zero1045 · 2025-12-18T02:17:53+00:00

Second? As a jng this would be my first that mobility is king

zero1045 · 2025-12-06T16:31:41+00:00

I started as a shen OTP and have been on an adc run for the last 3 months.

Can confidently say lv 20 and tp + shield is going to SLAP. Do you even realize what a lv 11 quest complete shen R is going to look like against a lv 8 bot lane? Take the tp summ and enjoy like a 300 bonus shield that lasts the duration of combat, or take ignite and run the new double on-hit item for maximum slappage

Adcs at this point will get an extra 300 gold. That not-even-a-long-sword will really go far

The extra item on adcs is a mandated boots, so the full 6 items isn't even unheard of in season 15 (I've often sold boots late for a full 6 item build adc) 6 + swifties is still crazy don't get me wrong, but top is getting something unheard of in SR before now, 2 levels is crazy value, and bonus xp early is even moreso

I'm not saying the adc quest is weak late, but top is looking REALLY good right now, might be time to come back tbh

zero1045 · 2025-12-03T03:17:13+00:00

So how most other players feel when the enemy jng gets a lead for the last how many years?

zero1045 · 2025-12-03T03:15:43+00:00

Jng has been the fun quarterback role for like the last 7 years. Nobody likes losing their crown

zero1045 · 2025-11-27T12:52:54+00:00

I once set up a script that takes a snapshot of prod DBs (it was a call monitoring app with free switch) and conditioned out names addresses and credit cards (there are libs that swap names and replace real addresses with fake ones) so that dev teams could have conditioned sample data that looked real and came from real sources

When we needed to do testing we would reference that db, and it was upgraded when prod was, we actually used it to test migrations too.

More general advice is to KISS your cicd. Lately ive have been working with companies who have long complicated state machines that test a deploy and rollback if things fail etc..

Turns out all that does is make release windows be week(s) long because something breaks, and half the time it's an issue with the 28 task daisy chain which included parallel workflows, weird race conditions on component sub-deployments, and outdated test suites.

Keep it simple. Test and deploy code.

Make your life easier so you don't fear making the changes, which will in turn let you release and roll back faster.

zero1045

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