Hitting multiple champions with the same ability can help quickly activate Darkness Rise.
Offense is your defense. Keep fighting to build up larger Indestructible shields.
Use Realm of Death on a low health enemy to guarantee the kill and keep their stats for the rest of a teamfight.
Stand away from your creeps in a lane to take less collateral damage from Explosive Charge.
If you see Tristana activate Rapid Fire in a fight, stun her and try to back off until the spell dissipates.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several critical Mordekaiser against Tristana matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Tristana’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Mordekaiser may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Tristana..
Mordekaiser typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Tristana. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Mordekaiser usually wins when playing against Tristana, with a 54.0% win rate. As a result, Mordekaiser makes a great counter for Tristana.
While Mordekaiser does have a much higher winrate than Tristana, when on opposite teams, Mordekaiser also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Mordekaiser into Tristana.
Furthermore, Mordekaiser also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tristana. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Mordekaiser vs Tristana matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Mordekaiser is a great counter to Tristana. Focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Mordekaiser against Tristana.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Mordekaiser in order to counter Tristana during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Mordekaiser often gets a similar amount of CS as Tristana. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to have in your Mordekaiser versus Tristana build include Nashor's Tooth, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Mordekaiser incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Tristana than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Mordekaiser had an average winrate of 54.0% battling Tristana with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Tristana as Mordekaiser, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Mordekaiser vs Tristana matchups, this mix of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Tristana as Mordekaiser are presented for all ranked divisions. If you want to filter the stats and builds to a specific division, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.