User blog comment:Echonaut/What Mordekaiser Needs/@comment-7741109-20130717095700

this will probably go into the land of the troll builds, but I tried buying both hecktech gb and BotrK a few times, and that double cc combo did wonders for me; Q hits like a truck becouse 70 ad this combo gives, you get an huge amount of lifesteal which works that more better with the shield you get from passive (and the spellvamp!); and R+BotrK is a combo that hits like a truck. lastly, AS from Botrk kind of synergises with with the 3 sec cdr per auto attack on hextech active ability.

Of course the downside all of this is that buying these items first leaves you rather squisy; and botrk's dammage if physical, which doesn't synergyise at all with the magic pen that works so well on mordekaiser. on the other hand, pple wont suspect the amount of dammage your normal auto attacks will deal, so you could consider that a pro instead of a con :D

Reworking W doesn't sounds that bad to me. You could say mordekaiser would be op if he had cc/gap closers. but then again, with the amount of champs that can kite so well and have a lot of movability that you can pick from these days, that have shield/a lot of aoe/cc or even a combo of those abilities, then i don't see why mordekaiser couldn't get 1 of those aspects on at least 1 ability; the OP argument alone is too simple to throw in. a few examples of chams with the mentioned trifecta i mentioned above: Rumble, Riven, renekton (imo; even though he hasnt got a shield, his ulti gives him bonus hp).