Morde's cool and all...

Nhika·Dec 6, 2019·1 votes·1,756 views

Why are his cooldowns so low? For being able to rush Rylai's Liandries with no issue at all? Free magic pen; cool. I got it; makes sense. But low cooldowns?

2 Comments

LanceTheMightyDec 6, 20192 votes

Because AP bruiser itemization does not properly exist and he can't really build cooldown reduction thus he has a low base Q CD. Also I wouldn't say he has that low of cooldowns. You can never really get his W off twice in a fight without CDR.

ThisName1sDumbDec 6, 20191 votes

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Because AP bruiser itemization does not properly exist and he can't really build cooldown reduction thus he has a low base Q CD. Also I wouldn't say he has that low of cooldowns. You can never really get his W off twice in a fight without CDR.

I wouldn't necessarily say he can't build CDR. Protobelt has 10% and a lot of Morde players like to get that as a gap closer. Nashor's tooth is also very good and that gives 20%. Spirit Visage has 10% and that's also generally a pretty good pickup. For the most part you're right, though, the items that are really core to his kit like Rylai's and Liandry's don't have CDR, so he doesn't end up getting much early on.