Across the sands of Shurima, a chorus of howls rings out. It is the call of the dune hounds, voracious predators who form packs and compete for the right to hunt in these barren lands. Among them, one pack stands above all, for they are driven not only by canine instincts, but by the ancient power of the Darkin.
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 shown on this page emphasize several strategic Naafiri against Mordekaiser counter statistics that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champs. For instance, Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Mordekaiser’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capacity than Mordekaiser..
Naafiri often has a similar longest killing spree as their opponent does. Typically, they receives less damage than Mordekaiser. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually loses when playing against Mordekaiser, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Naafiri makes a bad counter to Mordekaiser.
While Naafiri does have a lower winrate compared to Mordekaiser, when facing one another, Naafiri also has a lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Naafiri into Mordekaiser.
Furthermore, Naafiri also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Mordekaiser. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Mordekaiser matchups, Mordekaiser is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Naafiri is a garbage counter for Mordekaiser. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Mordekaiser.
To truly master Naafiri to counter Mordekaiser during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions presented above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri often picks up a similar amount of CS as Mordekaiser. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Naafiri versus Mordekaiser build include Maw of Malmortius, Edge of Night, and Serylda's Grudge. When Naafiri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed a lot better versus Mordekaiser than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Naafiri had an average win rate of 47.8% when countering Mordekaiser with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Mordekaiser as Naafiri, Naafiri players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Naafiri vs Mordekaiser face-offs, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Mordekaiser as Naafiri are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.