Talk:Mordekaiser/@comment-3493296-20150810233318/@comment-26001789-20150812034602

All right, I did play some Mordekaiser games. First off: Rushing Spellvamp on him SUCKS SO FREAKING HARD. Don't. Do it. Please. You can sorta make up the early game Spellvamp by having runes but even then you can use your new W to heal yourself or you know, you can start the game up with a Doran Shield and have insane HP regen along side the early HP Regen Masteries. Since Mordekaiser HP regen isn't too bad now anyways.

I'm not sold on Gunblade, to be honest. I tried and I have some good sustain but I can't seem to find a niche where I can use it effectively, either as a Rush or a 2nd-3rd item and by then, the item stats are just not worth it. Sterak Gage is a Tank version of Sheen. You either go for it after you build a lot of tank items or you don't. It's sorta like the Bruiserish/Tank version of Titanic Hydra, when you wanna take damage with it. I did use it once and dropped it out because Mordekaiser doesn't wanna take damage and doesn't need to. You need damage alongside being extremely difficult to kill in order to make him work.

Titanic Hydra IS a great Item for him when you just wanna clobber something up with your Q. It's insane. But here is the thing: You need to be able to use Titanic Hydra as an Auto Reset alongside any other skills to be effective. You cannot use Auto-Q-TitanicQ-Q to be able to do a combo. So yeah. It's cool and it's great when you go like a true Juggernaut Mordekaiser with it ut AD Mordekaiser just seems "eh" when you compare him to other BotLane Fighters like GP or Jayce.

Finally I don't like the new Abyssal, I think it's a great way to kill an Item what basically only works on Galio and Vladimir, but when you have GunBlade and Spirit Visage, the Healing you get from it it's actually quite good.

So yeah, that's about my testing with the build you suggested to me. It doesn't seem to mesh very well and some items are counter productive to what Mordekaiser actually needs right now. I would stick to TriForce and Rylai as a rush alongside Ionians and just never touch Gunblade. Sterak is great item but Morde needs some control and the item is intended to be a "I control the fights by taking the damage" so Morde is out of the question and Titanic Hydra is awesome on him but you can use the biggest part of it into the Q combo so it kinda averages out.