Talk:Mordekaiser/Strategy/@comment-9280387-20131203163551

If you want to have some fun go top lane taking offensive ap masteries. I went against a renekton as morde and I pooped on him in trades. What you do is you rush a sunfire cape, and build more tanky. I had a sunfire cape, as well as a rylais and Liandry's. Then you can build other armor items like randuin's, or if against an ap team build lots of magic resist and take an abyssal. All the resistances plus your passive shield makes you annoying as hell to kill, and you are still relevant in team fights because of your max health ult which procs the slow from rylais and can nuke their adc down. I think I took a fed caitlyn auto that critted and procced her passive and i still had like 50-100 strength left in my passive. I hue'd as i ulted her and my team cleaned house.

Also, the reason that I would suggest the sunfire-abyssal combo, is because I maxed W second, after e. This gives you lots of dot, and if your w is hitting them when you get rylai's you slow them  which should keep them in range for the full length of the w. This makes morde into more of a utility tank top lane, who can tade with ad casters in semi-long trades, although dueling with people who have better sustained damage (like the adcis difficult, it isnt impossible, as long as you can keep them slowed and in range of your abilities. Then you can hue as you suddenly ult them and take a bit of health back and then they have to flash over a wall or burn something in order to survive.

I will warn you though, doing this forces you into a more split push mentality. My bot lane in one particular game fed caitlyn a total of 24 kills together, andwe were still in the game because of my split pushing. I was also not doing well because their troll jungle gragas was camping top and maxing his e first. So even though I was out trading renekton he had kills on me because of gragas. I was still relevant despite being 4 and 7 because of my massive farm in comparison to the enemy team's. I was a little ahead of caitlyn but drastically ahead of the rest of their team.