Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-16462528-20131124122802/@comment-4499945-20131125070449

Always get Hextech Revolver first. After that, it's your choice between Gunblade and WOTA (I generally go WOTA).

For armor, you should probably get Zhonya's. AP, Armor, and an especially useful passive for this reason: if you already have a ghost and enter the Hourglass stasis, you can still control your ghost to attack people. I have used this trick to get me triples and quadras before. Another viable option is Thornmail or, believe it or not, Randuin's. I've used Randuin's before when I was meant to be the main tank, and it took forever for people to kill me (assuming I didn't already kill them in a teamfight).

Do NOT get Sunfire. That item is shit on Mord and is a waste on him compared to all the other things you could potentially get. Sunfire is for tanks. Guess what you're not? For armor, what I just wrote. For health, posters above me gave me some good suggestions.

In general, you need a balance between damage (AP/MPen) and tankiness. Build too much tankiness and you're useless apart from your ghost, which smart people will be able to counter. Build too much damage and you'll get blown up.

One other thing: team comp is CRUCIAL on Mord. Whatever team you're part of, you need to have a tanky front line (preferably good initiators) and hard CC availble, cuz you ain't got any.