User blog comment:NicknameMy/Stop the freakout about Mordekaiser, some math./@comment-24073465-20150216212300/@comment-3493296-20150216234002

1. Quick math for your bruiser build on E, using this build, assuming Rabadon's and Liandry's are finished: http://www.probuilds.net/guide/NA/1689020511/20017478

AP: 600

MPen: 58

E vs 100 MR: 150

More shield? Well, I don't think so. And once focused you are sure to be dead. Also, you should be never able to get into the enemy backline, since you have 0 mobility. Since you are so fast dead, your sustained damage is minimal. More burst, yes, but more sustained damage? Definitly not.

2. It is not only you attacking that Garen, also, your ADC and eventually support attacks him (because an ADC always attacks the nearest target and doesn't dive into the enemies). This way, this Garen goes down really quick and you get your ghost. You make tanks look like they got ulted by trundle, that is your positive. And no, a Mordekaiser should be never able to flash on top of the enemy ADC, that would be just a total displacement from the enemy ADC and total misplay by his support (which will have Crucible + ADC has Quicksilver, so no ghost for you anyway). Champions like Garen normally do not get Quicksliver and if you force them to get it they have a very inefficent item to deal with. What you can do with the ghost? Well, since your job isn't it to chase the enemies anyway, you can use the ghost to get 2 times as unkillable or taking objectives afterwards or stop anyone else trying to dive your backline.

The thing Mordekaiser uses to get close is the enemy mentallity, every team sends out 2 or 3 guys trying to dive your back line. If they do that, they will be close to you, so mobility is a non factor and you can constantly damage them. Also, do remember that his shield doesn't decay instantly, so any attempts to fight him are useless.

If Mordekaiser is focused, in this case, he is more tanky than Sion or Mundo, the tankiest champion in the game. Sure he can't run away but if the enemy team focuses him he can lay down his sustained damage and fight back. As long as he isn't alone, he is doing his job. And no, he doesn't have to get in there as hitting 2 guys would be already enough.

Mordekaiser heavily outdamages Mundo or Rumble, that is a big factor in this. The lack of CC he makes up with super high base damages and great usage of items. Also, no % damage? His ultimate?

Nobody said 6 Warmog's. Your damage comes from penetration and Liandry's and this damage is really usefull against your preferred targets. And you got high base damages while every one of your skills got that.

The reason to pick Mordekaiser is that, while beeing the biggest tank in the game from them all, he also packs in the most damage of all tanky champions. For that, he sacrifices his CC or Mobility. This Morde has more damage than even Darius, for example.