Talk:Mordekaiser/Strategy/@comment-190.149.52.149-20121124041403/@comment-138.86.160.145-20130221093302

I go flat runes all around with Morde, since his early game is pretty weak. If you can solve that, getting him to scale late becomes easy if you play well, and problematic at the very worst if you play poorly/are countered. Typically flat magic pen reds, flat magic resist blues,  flat ap quints, and flat health/armor yellows. I'd go health yellows if mid, and armor if top, but Morde does poorly against most champs top imho. Health regen is a big problem for his early game, since he has no cc or gap closers to move around and dodge stuff, has average movement, and needs to get in melee range to last hit, and so spamming skills and using up health is the only option left. Of course it leaves you open to bursts and quick deaths, so to avoid that I make Morde pretty tanky with the aforementioned runes and 9/21/0 masteries and buying two r. beads and two red pots for first items. It doesn't give him much in the way of AP, but imo Morde's strengths are not in killing champs. It's in farming very easily and getting as beefy as possible from creeps while harrassing the enemy and forcing him back to the tower (which is why I like Morde mid and not top), denying farm and snowballing, as well as denying a gank lane to the jungler and taking his wraiths as often as possible. The kills come when you hit lv. 6 and can E > ignite > ulti the guy at 50% health hugging his tower. Easy kills, but don't expect a ton. Just that with all the def masteries, the runes, and the r. beads, he doesn't run out of health when spamming E and Q all day, and can soak up that poke very effectively. Once you've surpassed the mid, you get the tower, go roaming, and win the game for your team, since his primary strengths are in pushing really fucking fast and teamfighting. If you can get a slave as Morde without dying it's like a guaranteed win for the teamfight. Maybe I should just write a guide... Morde's the only champ I'm even any good with anyway...