Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Mordekaiser builds up a powerful damage aura when fighting champions, so keep your distance.
Realm of Death will cut you off from your teammates completely. Try to save mobility spells to escape Mordekaiser once inside
Damage he deals can be converted into a large shield, and consumed for health
The stat comparisons provided here highlight some significant Aatrox against Mordekaiser matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Mordekaiser..
Aatrox usually has a similar longest kill spree as his enemy does. Typically, he takes more damage than Mordekaiser. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually loses when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 48.8% win rate. Therefore, Aatrox makes a poor counter to Mordekaiser.
While Aatrox does have a lower winrate than Mordekaiser, when they face off with one another, Aatrox also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champ to develop with. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Mordekaiser.
Furthermore, Aatrox has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Aatrox is a somewhat poor counter for Mordekaiser. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Mordekaiser.
To learn all of the intricacies of Aatrox in order to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox typically picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Mordekaiser. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Aatrox versus Mordekaiser build include Black Cleaver, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Aatrox used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Mordekaiser than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average winrate of 48.8% when playing against Mordekaiser with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of crushing Mordekaiser as Aatrox, you should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Aatrox vs Mordekaiser counter picks, this combo of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 48.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Mordekaiser as Aatrox are shown for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.