Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-15799475-20130818043320/@comment-4636093-20130818221830

It's a case of reliability over usefulness.

A best case scenario would be you use your ult at the start of a fight, it keeps you sustained throughout the fight, then the second before it's about to wear off, the target dies and you get the ghost. But in practice that rarely happens, people just back off when they get ulted by Morde so he gets no kill and no ghost.

So people use it at the end of a fight to secure the kill and ghost far more often than they use it for the heal.