Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-3354279-20121223152106/@comment-186.213.145.108-20121224030947

His passive is essentially a pseudo 105%* spell vamp that fuels a capped shield.

You should take some spell vamp for three reasons:


 * Sustain
 * Nullfying health costs
 * Healing any HP you did lose in combat because your shield got depleted

Having said that, Mordekaiser scales much better with resistances, because it makes harder to burst his easily generated shield, and do make him harder to kill when depleted. However, I will try what you said and see the results in practice. Should you rush both itens, or get spellvamp later?

* Remember that AoE only applies 33% of spell vamp. Given that almost all damage Mordekaiser deals is AoE, and that his passive is not diminished by the AoE modifier, it's only fair when comparing his passive with spell vamp to simulate it 3 times as strong as it really is.