For the people that believe Mordekaiser is a burst damage mage: Shen has better AP Ratios

LifeCyclesTWA·5/16/2015, 10:24:44 PM·2 votes·1,522 views

So stop building glass cannon, you may as well play AP Shen. Build him tanky like Shen. Shen is a taunt bot with a global presence, you are a lane bully early game, powerspike mid game, then an ult bot late game if the game lasts that long.

"oh emm gee guyz if I raize my AP it makes muh shield grow bigger faster" - AP Shen players & Dumbass Mordekaiser players

"BUT MORDEKAISER ISN'T A TANK!?!?! WHY WOULD WE BUILD HIM TANKY!????"

Because you are a melee champion with 0 mobility or CC. Thats why. Plus, you'll last longer than 2 seconds when people focus you because they are scared of you getting a ghost. Not to mention the fact you are the easiest person in the game to focus down, you have no mobility or CC. Gear up, grab a ghost early in the fight, and wreck face. GG.

18 Comments

stuartk115/16/2015, 10:56:23 PM3 votes

This is very true. Build AP bruiser with Mordekaiser and you'll do well. I usually try and get Abyssal Scepter first and are able to do a ton of damage, and still build tanky. Shame that Abyssal is changing, but hopefully it will be for the better and won't be abused and nerfed to hell. That item is quite core on Morde.

Darth Valer5/17/2015, 12:51:16 AM2 votes

My build on Morde is: item 3020 item 3152 item 3157 item 3001 item 3135 + situational (mostly item 3089 )

Morde has no sticking potential so you can't deal sustained dps damage. As a tank, the only reason why someone would want to damage you is your R, but considering the low damage output of a tankier Morde, you would completely rely on the rest of your team for completing the execution, since he is so kitable and peelable. A burtsty Morde almost 100-0s a squishy target with E-R-Ignite. Plus the resistances provided by his E + Zhoonya + Abyssal enhance his passive health shield, giving him interesting durability (although of course he explodes if heavily focused)

1011001110005/16/2015, 11:00:06 PM1 votes

Rylais makes Morde's ult a slow.

Now mage Morde has CC :^|

rG Thundrag5/16/2015, 11:34:11 PM1 votes

While Morde can be burst he is more reliably an AOE DPS MAGE that happens to be doing magic damage and is tanky from artificial means.

BeatzBoyFTW5/17/2015, 10:52:52 AM1 votes

Plays Ap Shen

Throws Q at enemy.

.........now what

Fadedpf5/16/2015, 10:34:37 PM1 votes

Morde has good ability to stay in fights with his passive. Also base damage is better than ratios. His base damages are really high, they did nerf his ratios but morde is pretty good at dealing a ton of damage, hes just immobile and has no CC. It would make sense to buy tank items like randuins, its burst or get bursted with mordekaiser

MLDzXnRRR5/17/2015, 10:57:53 AM1 votes

The ult shield of AP Shen is enormous (850 + 1.35 AP ratio)

Juggernaut6285/16/2015, 10:57:57 PM1 votes

Shen has higher ratios because you're not supposed to build him AP. If Katarina was an ad assassin, her abilties could have higher ap scaling, but as she is ap, she has lower (lol) ap scaling.