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Recommended Items
Runes: Main Runes
+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+6 Armor
Spells:
Flash
Smite
Items
Ability Order Ability Order
Darkness Rise (PASSIVE)
Mordekaiser Passive Ability
Threats & Synergies
Pantheon
Pantheon is a wonderful laner to gank for. Ping you are heading mid or top, and any seasoned pantheon above 50% health with enough mana will immediately jump on your target and full combo them for huge damage
Pantheon
Pantheon is a wonderful laner to gank for. Ping you are heading mid or top, and any seasoned pantheon above 50% health with enough mana will immediately jump on your target and full combo them for huge damage
Champion Build Guide
- Farms Fast
- Passive will melt just about anybody standing next to you
- You have level scaling with your base damage, allowing for extended camp sequencing
- Can deal lots of damage
- Gets quite tanky and heals a lot
- Any objective fight post level 6 is basically a free ultimate
- A good ult can always bring you back into a game
Cons
- First Clear isn't bad but is not anything to brag about
- First skirmish can be weak without items
- Taking Krugs is miserable (passive only works on big krug... yes this is very sad to me)
- Can be easily kited
- Somewhat hard to gank pre level 6
- Does not have much peel for carries outside of Ult

Truly, Mordekaiser is able to have a strong late game thanks to the utility of his ultimate during objective fights, his strong level scaling in his kit in addition to the scaling on his abilities in general, and his ability to force fights to either make a comeback or extend a lead until you pull ahead.
The First Clear and Jungle Tracking
Big thing to note: YOU MUST TRACK THE ENEMY JUNGLER FOR THE FIRST 10-15 MINUTES
I do not want to tell you a catch-all first clear because you should not be trying to play an off-meta jungler without the ability to adapt your plans to fit what you need. You should also have a decent idea of how healthy and fast the enemy Jungler's first clear should be in order to gauge if you would win in a skirmish against them. You should also consider which lanes you should have priority in, etc.
Needless to say, the first clear is definitely healthy and efficient, and as a silver jungler, I am able to do a consistent 5 camps (skipping Krugs) from either side and getting to the scuttle crab about 8-10 seconds before it spawns. I have noticed that starting on the blue buff definitely results in a healthier clear, as having your W


A Few Tips For Clearing and Ability Use
1.) Start Gromp with your passive while finishing Blue Buff: you can use the AOE of


2.) Proper use of W

3.) Animation Cancel: Morde's Q


4.) Kite to the next camp and keep the passive going!!! - Your passive


5.) Plan your smites and never finish your camps with smite - Always plan your smites for your first clear. Planning your smite also means planning your potion use. You should never use a potion when clearing a camp you intend to smite, as the potion healing will mean you receive less missing health healing on smite. However, never plan to finish a camp with smite. The reason why is that if you do, you will never receive the full value of the true damage on smite if you smite a camp that has less HP than your smite damage. If you smite a 300 HP Gromp at level 2, you will deal 410 true damage to it (an excess of 110 damage that could have been used to clear the camp faster). This excess damage is a net loss on clear speed for you to gain a little bit more health from your smite. It is not worth it. Smite also charges your W

Now, if you want to know where I generally smite, I tend to plan them based on which buff I started, as well as my matchup. Here are my general notes:
- In games that I worry about winning the scuttle duel or want to gank early, I will smite twice during my first clear before I reach the River. If I am not planning to fight early, or am not nervous about getting invaded or someone trying to fight me, I will instead smite once before reaching the river and save a smite for the crab.
- If I start on Red buff, I usually will either smite or use a potion for raptors, but NEVER BOTH. If I used a potion on raptors, I will smite my blue buff and Gromp, or only blue buff. If I smited Raptors, I will save my smite for Gromp.
- If I start on Blue Buff, I will smite my Gromp right after the blue buff when it is around 40% HP or so for the sake of a faster clear. I then will smite my Red buff if I intend to use smite twice before crab or not smite anything else if I want to smite the crab.
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