Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-31827536-20170820075413/@comment-4091261-20170909130224

If you, Leagueofpingu are insistent on going off-meta despite the aforementioned advice, then there is only one major benefit for going offtank with : handling his weakness to poke during laning phase.

A dent in  is his lack of sustain. In fact, he drains his own health using abilities. That said, he needs quite a lot of sustain early on to survive against poke compositions. It's possible to attain this laning phase sustain with.

What you would need are health regen quints and all the sustain masteries. Get this and and poke will no longer be a weakness during laning phase.

Having locks  into building a boatload of  which does not increase the damage of his abilities. This means that will very rarely be making the most use of his shields through raw damage output and will rely heavily on slapping many champions with  to get his shields charged. That said it's unreasonable, in this case, to max last with  since it would be his most important shield charging tool.

Unfortunately, there is the opportunity cost of the epic mobility of, which is quite easily proc'ed by , and the gigantic damage output on his with.

This cost is quite extreme, so it's preferred to simply ride out the poke and while sticking to the more damage based builds, like with and three. If you find it impossible to simply ride out the poke, due to a full poke team composition from the enemies, and you have no tank on your team, then you can consider the build. It's unfortunate that this is niche, but it means the other builds are too good to pass up.