A page out of the Book of Heavy Metal (Unsealed Spellbook+Smite Morde bot, trust me not trolling)
Gather around children and listen to this tale. It is one only spoken of in hushed whispers, from the infernal pits of Bronze V to the heavenly spheres of Challenger. 'Tis a tale of enemy tears, flaming teammates in champion select and never-ending torrential rains of LP...
This is the story of #UNSEALED SPELLBOOK SMITE MORDEKAISER BOTLANE
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At first glance you'd probably flame your bot lane in champion select. Seeing them not only lock in Mordekaiser and Blitzcrank bot...But also both of them picking SMITE... But you're unable to dodge, since it's your last game of promos. Loading into game you'd come to notice something odd about the duo...
They're both running the rune "Unsealed Spellbook"... Intriguing...
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But slowly you'll come to realize that these madmen do not just play this strat for shits and giggles. No, there's a reason for this madness...
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Both of them seem to rush
and after abusing the enemy Jungler, stealing their first two camps and maybe even killing the fool trying to stop them, they change their summoner spells to Ignite and Exhaust respectively, with Mordekaiser using GHOST later in the game for the improved mobility it provides...
But why is this working you may ask... Well, here's where things get technical.
Mordekaiser bot lane does not farm and scale like a regular ADC, he prefers to dominate the opposition and end the game as fast as possible, giving the enemy no chance at turning around and get any advantage.
With Unsealed spell book and smite, Mordekaiser and his Support are going to starve out the enemy jungler out of Xp before building the one item that offers so much...For so little money. Runic Echoes does give Mordekaiser a ton of useful stats: -Movement speed; probably one of Mord's favorite stats since he wants to run down the enemy and be mobile in the midst of a fight -AP: Morde's primary offensive stat -More Burst: The Runic Proc gives Morde a lot of early damage to pop the enemy, nobody expects a Luden's proc this early in the game and it also gives him better clearing
And of course: A LOT OF VISION CONTROL
Together with his Support, Morde won't need to invest into a Sightstone, but rather has all the wards he needs to stay safe in lane, snuff out the enemy Jungler, keep track of enemy movement and set up ambushes and skirmishes in their favor.
Unsealed Spellbook in itself is already great on Morde since he can transition from using
for early game Snowballing to
for late game mobility.
Even something like
can be useful against certain champions.
The Inspiration+Sorcery combo also gives Mordekaiser a TON of AP as well as EXTENDED POTION DURATION, which helps his early game Hp costs with stronger pots. And here's the kicker, Unsealed Spellbook also REDUCES summoner spell cooldown, making Morde, who relies on Flash/Ghost so much even more of a threat since his spells are going to be up so much more often, especially IGNITE for early game power.
All in all this Strategy was one of the best things coming out from the new Rune system. It offers a completely new play style that allows those with the Balls of Steel to try it to really BREAK the Meta and find new innovative ways to play the game. And it's not trolling by any stretch of the imagination as you're simply using all the tools Riot provided you with to really push the limits of how to destroy the opposition.
But that's for today's tale out of the Book of Heavy Metal. Tune in next time when we'll go over everything you need to know to take Mordekaiser into Season 8 ranked!
both get runic to burst....