Guide: How to Support a mordekaiser

Ahristocats··24 votes·7,166 views

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So Recently i started to climb a smurf into master by only playing a support+mordekaiser

Since malicious posted a thread on Mordekaiser botlane, a lot of questions were about which support should someone pick with mordekaiser, and how to play against various other supports I dedicate this thread to answer to those questions

Which support should you pick Mordekaiser can work with almost every supports. However the playstyle won't be the same, generally you will have 2 kind of supports: Enchenters: Sona Soraka Nami Lulu . Enchenters are a passive lane, you generally want to avoid any lane fighting while sustaining+poking with mordekaiser. Enchenters are actually strong, but only in teamfight. Winning a 2v2 with them+morde is actually hard unless you poked them a lot before You might want to take summoner 7 as combined with windspeaker you're going to heal a lot especially that mordekaiser heals a lot with W+R and item 3065 I recomand taking them against heavy disengage botlane like Morgana or (maybe) Janna DO NOT PICK JANNA. Her anti-poke is meh compared to the others, while her poke is trash. She doesn't have a lot of range, and Janna actually pokes by adding AD to her ADC, but mordekaiser can't make use of this as he's a melee not ranged Additionally, Janna provides only disengage except a small slow on W. She pushes enemies away with ult and this makes mordekaiser a very sad boy.

Wardens: Blitzcrank Alistar Nautilus Thresh Braum Leona Wardens are what you use to win the lane. They're worse than enchenters in teamfight but stronger supports in 2v2 (with morde) i highly recommand to build item 3301 instead of item 3302 as mordekaiser needs to last hit every minions for his xp passive. Generally i don't recommand Braum because his all-in is worse and right now he's worse than other supports. Same thing with Leona, i don't find them tanky at all as you need to rush item 3107 even on wardens, and this delays your tankiness power a lot on the other hand i find the others tankier even while going for redemption. I also wouldn't recommand Thresh because his engaging+his nuke is way worse than blitzcrank nautilus or alistar. He depends on ult to nuke which has 150 sec cd, his hook delay makes it worse than blitz/naut and his early 2v2 is somewhat worse for 2 reasons: 16 base armor, 47 base AD. Yes his base AD is low, thresh has a decent poke with E passive but once his E passive is down it becomes complicated to deal damage. I only pick Thresh if they picked someone with an AOE spell to escape from like Bard ult and Jhin ult, and i need a lantern for my mordekaiser. I highly recommand Nautilus against Caitlyn as his hook has less delay than Blitzcrank which means caitlyn has less time to use E, and if she uses it she will get grabbed no matter what and waste her E

DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME: Darius Support

In any case, you need most of the time lvl 2 or lvl 3 on all your supports to either poke or all in Example of Sona you need Q+W to poke and counterpoke, if you're blitzcrank you need Q and E of course and maybe W Moral of the story: don't try anything and just play safe, Mordekaiser will farm with E until then

In teamfight, you want to make sure to CC the champion mordekaiser focuses as you need a clone ASAP If you're an enchenter than just throw your boosts on Morde/other allies.

Some run pages:

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As some people asked for full gameplay here are some games:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plbs6Dyh7Js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4p5nPM8u6I&feature=youtu.be

if you have other questions do not hesitate to ask them

18 Comments

TyrekGoldenspear9 votes

DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME: Darius Support

Well now I have to try it.

Salson1 votes

He's also extremely fun with Ashe.

50000000000000002 votes

You meant Ashe support, right?

junglerboy161 votes

Or is it Darius supporting Ashe?

I can see that being pretty dirty to fight against, since Ashe is hard to kite and Darius is hard to fight, so if you can't run and you can't fight you're dead.

Salson1 votes

They work well in every way, so both is viable.

Hell as a toplane Darius you tp bot, they can't fight you and they can't run from Ashe.

Malicious Metal6 votes

Games are going to be way shorter now that the enemy can surrender at 15 minutes :^)

Melledoneus2 votes

Add Shen to top lane and you'll end before 15. :)

Handy Sandy 4 votes

and then u play morde adc and your supp just goes mid lol

Best princess EU2 votes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4p5nPM8u6I&feature=youtu.be

at 12:55 i needed to put it on slow motion rofl

50000000000000002 votes

You meant vanguards, not wardens, right? Vanguards are the ones who specialize in engage, and wardens are the ones who specialize in peel. While vanguards can peel and wardens can engage, I think you want someone with good engage in this context.

A lot of wardens have decent engage in lane (Thresh, Alistar, Braum are some examples), which makes the distinction difficult in the context of laning phase.

Ahristocats3 votes

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While vanguards can peel and wardens can engage, I think you want someone with good engage in this context.

yeah riot classification makes me confused everytime you do need a great engage that all that matters yes

Golden Tager X2 votes

what about Zilean ?

Arkilusal1 votes

Curious how Rakan fares...Like on the one hand seems like terrible idea, if nothing else he wants to be with Xayah above all else. But on the flipside...Morde starts walking towards the enemy, Rakan quickly W's in, and with Morde's W to grant movespeed, that maybe could get him in close, at which point well, Rakan just wants his partner to be in E range, Q hits=insta heal if he's near morde and if not a quick E to land the heal... Might need to see about getting me a morde partner to try this once I get Rakan.

Ahristocats1 votes

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Curious how Rakan fares...

to be fair rakan is a middle between enchenters and wardens, it's weird his all-in might be decent but he brings way less damage than other supports which is a bad thing his all in is a dash+knock up(before 6 ofc), i don't know if this is enough for morde to win

his heal is also meh and his shield is on a very long cd, so idk

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But on the flipside...Morde starts walking towards the enemy, Rakan quickly W's in, and with Morde's W to grant movespeed,

that's great but you also need damage to win

i honestly can't answer since i didn't try if you want to try it feel free to tell me the outcome

Backup4now1 votes

i highly recommand to build (coin) instead of (relic) as mordekaiser needs to last hit every minions for his xp passive.

Are you sure about this? Last time I checked, the relic passive appropriately gave Mordekaiser bonus experience when his ally used a proc on him.

Ahristocats1 votes

this was confirmed by meddler

he doesn't

GULAG 4 U1 votes

I hate pussy laners when I play morde ADC. that's why I'd never do it in solocancerQ.

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