Mordekaiser Recommended Build
Mordekaiser's recommended build needs to be updated. The items you guys at Riot gave him is overall not the best choice, being a real hosh posh of defensive and offensive stats. Here are items I think should be present instead of the current items.
Starting Items This is one category you guys got right. Going Relic Shield + Health Potions + Warding Totem actually works well on him, giving him more health, decent sustain, better last hitting, and his Support more gold than usual.
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Essential Items This is where the item builds begin to need to be updated. Upgrade Relic Shield and get Ninja Tabi's sure. However, Phage is not the best option. Instead, upgrading your boots with Furor is much better. Instead, rushing a Randuin's is much better due to the slow now always lasting for 4 seconds and granting Mordekaiser useful stats for surviving Bottom Lane. His base damage is also high enough to survive as well in the early game without building damage items. Getting Furor should massively boost offensive capabilites anyways.
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Offensive Items Mordekaiser's offensive capabilities are already extremely good right off the bat. His main problem is sticking to his target, so the following items help him do so while also providing offense capabilities. Sterak's Gage to me is ok, but its not the end all for Mordekaiser. Purchase only if you know you will be building lots of health.
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Defensive Items Mordekaiser scales off of health by default since his shield now scales off of Max Health. Armor and Magic Resist also scales well with him due to this. Making Mordekaiser able to soak up more damage without sacrafising health and boosting sustain should be the aim of defensive items. DPM is also a good defensive item with mobility. Also, for the love of god, DO NOT BUILD FACE OF THE MOUNTAIN! Its a wasted late game item slot. Building more selfish stats is what you need late game since YOU ARE THE CARRY!
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Adjusting Mordekaiser's recommended build to something such as this should help show people what is most optimal on this new, Carry Juggernaut.




seems to indicate such a change.