Rioters, mains, help, its Virtually impossible to play Mord in ranked

KnightOfEloHell··2 votes·842 views

First off, know I'm very tilted. I love Mord, but can't play him at all in ranked.

I've tried many things. Attack speed, AP, AD, brusier, Hybrid, even movespeed builds and mastered tailored to such. Yes, runes included.

Even playing safe, I'm simply shut down under a tower. Either I'm outsustained, outdamaged, kited, or ganked over and over. Everyone tells me to tank, and every game I do, I am free food for my team.

As a tank: Mord's base health is so low, I'm stuck in the landing phase to build at least 3 tank items to be remotely tanky. With the last ult changes, I have little AP for abilities and not enough AD for ghosts, and no movespeed to really stick or escape ganks, or get to a team fight on time. No split pushing power to take objectives either, and melted in team fights as a tank.

Attack Speed: Pretty cheesy, but too squish to do much other than split push unless they focus you, and they wull.

Raw damage: Powerful, but you have no Attack Speed, and they will melt you before you can get 3rd Q off.

Movespeed: In ranked, the enemy team will pick massive cc and you will be screwed, even with Stormrsiders, Distortion Boots of Swiftness, ghost, flash, and lots of mobility items. At least you can stick and run away with this, but you will be heavy focused with 3-5 man ganks because it is so effective early. Any wards placed will be destroyed soon after you lay them.

Bruiser: Probably the best overall, but you have no MS, so no escapes or sticking potential.

I feel I can only play Mord well in blind, where no one knows I'm going to play him. He is way too easy to counter with his base health and 325 movespeed.

And that's sad because his current kit has so much potrntial, and he is very cool ideally.

11 Comments

Anraton2 votes

Try building item 3116 ,item 3151 item 3001 item 3742 Boots depending on needs item 3020 item 3111 item 3047

About the items .. they combine AP AND defense (exception dead mans) adapt build path to the needs depending on your enemy. I.E. Gnars Stack mechanic deals %hp magic damage ... building HP won't help there as won't armor .. rush abysal

as for skills ... did you ever try max your W first?

And last ... you don't only have to know your won mechanic but also the enemies ... especially important against i.e. Gnar, Fiora, Illaoi, Riven.

KnightOfEloHell1 votes

I max W up typically second, unless I cannot rely on q, for instance say, Teemo. I'll try that build. I see runic armor bug was fixed with this patch, so I'll also try tanker masteries.

I like to play other Champs when I struggle against them. Now Yas, Riven, ect, are easy to beat.

But in Ranked, it's all the cc to counter pick my Mord. I have other champs, but Olaf is the only other champ I can play well. But I love Mord's kit so much, I don't want to play my old main. But in Ranked, no matter how much health I have, if I am stunned once, I'm dead, they repeat, and I'm reported for playing ranked and being a bad player.

I'd like to be a better player.

I've taken to focusing cs and being less aggro, but I'm ganked anyways. Back when I warded a lot, I'd die trying to ward and would still feed. It's just ranked I have trouble with.

I know it's my own fault I'm a bronzie, but nothing seems to work when I play Mord in ranked, even when I'm sure to have massive mobility. I will try your suggestion and tell you how it works out for me in ranked play.

Anraton1 votes

Well .. I am still in training as i had a long break and so i don't play ranked yet ...

Anyways .. I am registered at replay.gg and actually i got some morde games there.. also if we didn't win all the game maybe there are some hints about how you can improve? http://www.replay.gg/search/euw/Anraton

(plz ignore the double boots buy .. don't know how i made that mistake :-D )

At that Morde vs Fiora game .. you can see when i respect her mechanic (trading well) and when i don't (trading bad)

about watching replays there ... there is a bug when you finished the replay the client somehow isn't notified to switch back to "normal mode" .. either restart the client or spectate a random friend for a few second.

dangopee1 votes

Voyboy was just doing it a few hours ago.

PhantomGG1 votes

Mord is in the same state master yi and kogmaw are in, you need a proper "protect the mord" comp, he is someone who will straight out solo carry your team, but if he does not have anyone to cc/peel for him, then he is utterly useless, Mord shines best in tanky comps with lots of cc, just like yi and kogmaw

Khâmul1 votes

As a core build I can recommend you: item 3151 item 3116 item 3065 : gives you HP,AP,MR,CDR,Sustain (+20% from ultimate and W).Also aoe slow and a lot of extra damages (item 3151 deals more damages for impaired people, it can help a lot to melt the enemy team and gives you an extra dot with your ultimate (+ Death fire touch)

The next is,as it's said previously, depending of your enemy composition: Ad enemy team? ->item 1318 Mixed/mage/strong CC team? ->item 1323 item 1313 (if you feel comfortable and you're not in the frontline.

Now for the rest two slots, you can choose a lot of items.there isn't one build for every game: item 3143 : the crit reduction is interesting. adding the item 3047 will make it more effective. I recommend it against AD oriented teams. item 3053 : If you're in frontlane, Will allow you to absorb strong burst item 3135 : If there's not a lot of damages but tanky team against you, this will help a lot. Your ultimate will drain more(allowing you to survive),Liandrys will hurt more etc.. item 3001 : Against AP oriented teams,I use it rarely but it's effective item 3146 : Against teams with sustained damages and no burst,you'll hold longer and dealsnice damages item 3124 :Rarely use it. Only if you think you'll have a lot of opportunities to use your Q spell item 3075: Nice against AD teams,but take some HP or it'll be less effective.Really occasionnal use item 3512 : Not a juggernaut item but if you're behind,you'll be able to put some pressure in a lane to allow your team to breath. item 3089 : Why not....if you're ahead and they're squishy

Another advice: Try summoner 6 instead of summoner 4 . It's more effective in teamfights but you'll have to think about not putting yourself in a really dangerous situation. Or you can take summoner 4 summoner 6 but you'll have less kill potential with summoner 14 .

Bonus advice: -try 18/0/12 (with the summoner cdr). you'll benefit a lot for the distorsion enchantment in your boots. -item 2138 + item 3111 =50% tenacity.

Don't forget,each game is unique. You'll have to adapt your playstyle and build. I can't tell you what to do because there's an infinite amount of situations :p But what I can tell you is: -don't play ranked TO LEARN. it's a secondary objective. You'll have to play TO WIN (Learning will come alongside ).=> the mental state makes the difference. If you lose,stop playing. do something else,play aram or another game. I don't tell you to tryhard without enjoying the game. I just recommend you to put yourself in a mental state so winning is your first objective.It's like in a sport competition, you have to be in your best state!

If your priority is to LEARN, play normal games. You can find good/bad players and there you'll see what is going well or not.

Last thing because I have to go :p LOL isn't only a game about how you master a champion. it's easy and you'll reach your maximum potential really quick. What you'll have to do is to learn to anticipate what will happen to the game. When the laning phase ends?when the mid game/late game starts? should I roam?Should I take an objective? If you have an advantage in game you have to share your potential to your team instead of staying 45 min farming in toplane. In the opposite case, if you're confronted against someone more powerfull, Not dying is a good start so he wouldn't snowball.

Good luck for the rest Best regards Khâmul

PS: if you're the front lane,It won't be easy because you're not a tank. So be sure you'll be accompagnied by at least one tank that can engage/CC. Morde is like that :p Also forgot item 3742

KnightOfEloHell1 votes

Thanks for the detail! I used abysmally with maw rylias and nashors, we still got wooped.

An Azir was fed and 3 shot me all game, no matter how much MR I had. Although the tons of offensive MR helped, their team had a bunch of cc so I was thrown everywhere, stunned, and burst ed before I could do anything.

I have the same issue even with pure tank builds at 5k hp. Cc'd, stunned, and melted.

KnightOfEloHell1 votes

I like mobility on Mord, but using offensive items with resistances seem like they can work, too.

Thrill Moentral1 votes

You are asking for a Rioter, but I think you might just want Mr. Malicious on the case here.

Akenero1 votes

Build nothing but HP and go top lane, getting dragon with teleport the second you get ult. After that, kill the enemy bot Lane and it's tower, and recall. Repeat each time drag is up. Take it, kill people, and rush towers

Olshaw1 votes

I don't like how people can flash away from a q after the animation starts.

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