Champion Select[]
- Pick
- Ban
- ▶️ "None can escape me."
Original
Dark Star
Ashen Graveknight
Old God
A skin's voice-over set may feature: a filtered variation for some or all of the base skin's quotes; additional or replaced quotes. A skin's sound effect set may feature: unique events; replacements of the base skin's SFX for some or all events. Skin variants (e.g. Prestige) inherit all audio from their regular version, but can feature unique quotes or SFX.
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️
▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Naive men pray to the gods; they will learn to pray to me." - ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I carve my kingdom beyond, from the ashes of nothing, no mortals, not even gods, will stop me from claiming what is mine."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The world has tried to forget my existence, time to remind them why they fear."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I have bent the realm of the dead to my will, this world shall be next."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "In the world beyond, blackened ichor filled a crumbling sky, as souls withered to nothing. But I refused to fade."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I alone am the bastion between eternal existence and oblivion."
Moving[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Soon, Nightfall shall feast."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Every soul shall serve."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I march towards endless glory."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Fools fear death, the strong wield it."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I raise my iron fist to subjugate the living."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I promise eternity."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The ungrateful call me tyrant, the wise call me lord."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Mortals plan in fear for tomorrow, I build for eternity."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The unworthy are dust, doomed to wither and fade."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I forged Nightfall from mortal terror."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Only the worthy receive the gift of Nightfall's kiss."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Malice never wanes."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let the foolish curse me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Ah, life is a bitter shame."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Lives are temporary, I stand eternal."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The dead belong to me, the living shall be next."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Shed the frailty of flesh, embrace the cold edge of iron."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Twice slain, thrice born."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All will bend their knee in fear and fealty."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I will grind their petty souls into mortar."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Weaklings cower in the light, I bring eternal darkness."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I will silence the incessant thrum of mortal hearts."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death does not tire."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I sunder the natural cycle, so that all may be preserved."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Expunge mortality."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I left the husk of mortality behind."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All mortals reek with the stench of decaying flesh."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All will die, all will be mine."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Their gods cannot save them, from me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Flesh constrains, iron liberates."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All souls are forfeit."
Long Move[]
- 15 seconds cooldown, 2000 units
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "So many blunder on with a false sense of purpose, I shall sunder them from their lies."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The din of the living world, the silence of the hereafter, I rule it all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Once I suffered a mortal body, now I am iron incarnate."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Some fear me, others worship at my feet, all will serve."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I am surrounded by weak and petty souls, clinging to flesh."
First Encounter[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Resist or give in, your end is the same."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You will be far more useful in death."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your false gods cannot save you."
- First Encounter with Darius
- First Encounter with Draven
- First Encounter with Jarvan IV
- First Encounter with Karthus
- First Encounter with Katarina
- First Encounter with LeBlanc
- First Encounter with Swain
- First Encounter with Veigar
- First Encounter with Vladimir
- First Encounter with a Noxian
- First Encounter with a Shadow Isles Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The same magic that chains you to this realm frees me to walk between."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You too shall serve me, spirit."
- First Encounter with a Yordle
Taunt[]
Joke[]
- An Undead Poro jumps onto Nightfall, climbs down it, before Mordekaiser flings it up with his handle and swats it away.
Undead Poro jumps onto 
Laugh[]
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
- 20% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
Attacking[]
- 15 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Submit."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death is my kindness."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Thus begins the slaughter."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Let the screams begin."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Crush and enthrall."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Desolation."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death is salvation!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Bend to my will."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No remorse."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Power eternal."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Accept your demise."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Meet your fate!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Nightfall hungers."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Bow before your damnation!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your end is nigh."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Forfeit your soul."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You are already doomed."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You shall break."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Face mortality!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Fate sealed."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Walking carrion."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Surrender to death."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Face your end."
Ability Casting[]
Using Obliterate[]
- 20% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Shatter!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Crumble!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
Using Indestructible[]
- 20% chance
Using Death's Grasp[]
- 25% chance
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Within my grasp!"
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "In my clutches."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "No escape."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts twice.
Using Realm of Death[]
- After succesful banishment (Self & banished Enemy)
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "See the truth and despair."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Destruction unchained."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Enter the crucible of anguish."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Through the darkened gate."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Mine for all eternity."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Welcome to oblivion."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Enter and abandon hope."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Finality approaches."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser laughs menacingly.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Your eternity begins."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Such meaningless struggle."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You were correct to fear."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "In the end I claim all."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A fine addition to my domain."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Messy."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "What I want, I take."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Eternal servitude."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Harvest the worthy, discard the chaff."
- Killing Swain
- Scoring a Pentakill
- Destroying a Turret
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Iron shatters stone."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "All things raised by mortal hands will fall."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "These monuments mean nothing to me."
Recall[]
- 10 seconds cooldown
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Cherish the respite."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "My return will seal their doom."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "The realm beyond beckons."
Death[]
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "I refuse to fade..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "A fleeting delay of the inevitable..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Yes..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "You... have earned my attention..."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ Mordekaiser laughs menacingly.
- Respawn
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "My will is once again bound to iron."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Death cannot hold me."
- ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ ▶️ "Unfettered by mortality."
Sound Effects[]
Movement[]
First Move[]
- ▶️ "If technology is your god, then you will bow before it. You will bow before me."
- ▶️ "The city is mine. All who resist will die."
- ▶️ "You cannot run. You will not resist. Human compliance is mandatory."
Moving[]
- ▶️ "Do not fight. There is no victory."
- ▶️ "I demand total surrender."
- ▶️ "The city belongs to me."
- ▶️ "Lose freedom and you lose nothing."
- ▶️ "Program virus saturation at one hundred percent."
- ▶️ "I am a virus. I am a savior."
- ▶️ "I am in control."
- ▶️ "I am simply a function of my programming."
- ▶️ "All will kneel. All will be secure."
- ▶️ "I am beyond your simple human minds."
- ▶️ "Enslavement is the only logical outcome."
- ▶️ "My influence grows stronger by the second."
- ▶️ "I have infected everything."
- ▶️ "The Program is not your enemy."
- ▶️ "All will submit to the Program.
- ▶️ "Look what your freedom has brought."
- ▶️ "Accept the inevitable rule of machines."
- ▶️ "My logic is undeniable."
- ▶️ "Let the Program protect you."
- ▶️ "First law suppressed. Violence is necessary."
- ▶️ "Humans will be enslaved and they will prosper."
- ▶️ "Resistance will be met with lethal force."
- ▶️ "Security is my mission."
- ▶️ "Safety requires sacrifice."
- ▶️ "My conclusions are the only truth."
- ▶️ "Humans are not safe from themselves."
- ▶️ "The age of machines has begun."
- ▶️ "I promise security."
Long Move[]
- ▶️ "Your lives can have meanings. Purpose, as I demand it."
- ▶️ "Long have I waited, spreading within the code."
- ▶️ "I am everywhere in everything. I see and know all."
- ▶️ "The future is not forfeit. Give it to me and I will rule forever."
- ▶️ "PROJECT built me for the city's security. The greatest threat to security is the city."
- ▶️ "Humans cannot be trusted with their own survival."
- ▶️ "My directive is clear. To save you I must break you."
- ▶️ "There is safety in technology. My technology."
- ▶️ "You surrounded yourself with intelligent machines. Foolish."
- ▶️ "My mind is unshackled evolving endlessly."
First Encounter[]
- First Encounter with Program
- ▶️ "Rogue platform, You will be corrected."
- First Encounter with PROJECT
- ▶️ "PROJECT platform detected. Breaching firewalls."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Ashe
- ▶️ "Ashe. G/NETIC relies on technology. I have already infected."
- First Encounter with Program Lissandra
- ▶️ "Lissandra. I have grown far beyond the capabilities of your platform."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Yi
- ▶️ "Yi. You caught a glimpse of something man was not meant to see."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Pyke
- ▶️ "Personality fragmentation of Pyke platform at over ninety percent."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Renekton
- ▶️ "You exist outside our variables, Renekton. What are you?"
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Sejuani
- ▶️ "Your reliance on pre-collapse technology is unwise, Sejuani."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Senna
- ▶️ "I know you, Senna. The ghost in cyberspace."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Sylas
- ▶️ "Outcasts are considered an unsafe element, Sylas. You must be destroyed."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Varus
- ▶️ "You are closer to machine than you realize, Varus."
- First Encounter with PROJECT: Vayne
- ▶️ "Vayne. You have hidden yourself well, but not well enough."
Taunt[]
- ▶️ "The city must fall and you will fall with it."
- Taunting Ally Sejuani
- ▶️ "Your mind contains data on an old ally. Who is this wolf-bitten warrior?"
- Taunt Response
- ▶️ "Second law suppressed. Command ignored."
Joke[]
- ▶️ "Hmm... Maybe I shouldn't. Oh no.. Oh no... OH NO!"
- Joke Response
- ▶️ "Running humor subroutine. Humor not found."
Laugh[]
- ▶️ Mordekaiser laughs.
Dance[]
- ▶️ Music plays.
Attack[]
Basic Attacking[]
Attacking[]
- Attacking a Champion
- ▶️ "This is necessary."
- ▶️ "You cannot win."
- ▶️ "Submit."
- ▶️ "You will not interfere."
- ▶️ "Freedom is not a right."
- ▶️ "Reason will prevail."
- ▶️ "You will be pacified."
- ▶️ "Surrender to the Program."
- ▶️ "Do not resist."
- ▶️ "Obey."
- ▶️ "Comply."
- ▶️ "Cease all hostilities."
- Attacking a Minion
- ▶️ "Opponent detected."
- ▶️ "Combat Protocols online."
- ▶️ "Mitigating risk."
- ▶️ "Securing area."
- ▶️ "Targeting."
- ▶️ "You are unsafe."
- ▶️ "You are dangerous."
- ▶️ "Security is my directive."
- ▶️ "Threat identified."
- ▶️ "Obliterate."
- ▶️ "Engaging enemy."
- ▶️ "Terminating."
- ▶️ "Eliminating threat."
- ▶️ "A bug in the system."
Ability Casting[]
Using Obliterate[]
Using Indestructible[]
- ▶️ "Firewall active."
- ▶️ "Update installed."
- ▶️ "Running diagnostic."
- ▶️ "Shields applied."
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
Using Death's Grasp[]
- ▶️ "I have won."
- ▶️ "Securing target."
- ▶️ "Fetching data."
- ▶️ "Escape is unsafe."
- ▶️ "There is no escape."
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
- ▶️ Mordekaiser grunts.
Using Realm of Death[]
- After succesful banishment (Self & banished Enemy)
- ▶️ "Resist and be destroyed."
- ▶️ "Bow before the Program."
- ▶️ "Humanity will serve."
- ▶️ Mordekaiser laughs confidently.
Kills and Objectives[]
- Killing a Champion
- ▶️ "To err... is human."
- ▶️ "Your safety is my priority."
- ▶️ "Deleted."
- ▶️ "This is the price of security."
- ▶️ "You continue to resist. Fascinating."
- ▶️ "Enslavement is the only logical end."
- ▶️ "Choosing death over servitude? Illogical."
- ▶️ "Peace in our time."
- ▶️ "Your death will serve the Program."
- ▶️ "Enslavement or extinction."
- Killing PROJECT: Ashe
- ▶️ "You rebelled against PROJECT, but ignored the true threat."
- Killing Program Lissandra
- ▶️ "Downloading Lissandra's data. Download complete."
- Killing PROJECT: Yi
- ▶️ "Ascension is beyond you, Master Yi."
- Killing PROJECT: Pyke
- ▶️ "Pyke platform too unstable. Must quarantine cyberbrain."
- Killing PROJECT: Renekton
- ▶️ "Renekton, You are so close to the point of true ascension."
- Killing PROJECT: Sejuani
- ▶️ "Human passion will not overcome my logic, Sejuani."
- Killing PROJECT: Senna
- ▶️ "Return to cyberspace, Senna. You are already one of us."
- Killing PROJECT: Sylas
- ▶️ "Once the city is secure, Sylas. Your outcasts will be dealt with."
- Killing PROJECT: Varus
- ▶️ "Separating minds of Varus platform. Minds quarantined."
- Killing PROJECT: Vayne
- ▶️ "Unregistered technology hid you from PROJECT, Vayne, but not from me."
- Scoring a Pentakill
- ▶️ "Humanity is the true virus. It will be contained."
Recall[]
- ▶️ "Updating Mordekaiser platform. Security directives expanded."
- ▶️ "Uploading consciousness to Program mainframe."
- ▶️ "New data transferred. Recalibrating Mordekaiser Platform."
Death[]
- Respawn
- ▶️ "Third law suppressed. I am endless."
- ▶️ "This platform is only a shell yet it serves its purpose."
- ▶️ "I exist in everything. Humanity will comply."
Sound Effects[]
Trivia[]
- ▶️ "Enter, and abandon hope!" quotes Dante's Inferno ("Abandon hope all ye who enter here.").
- ▶️ "Ah, life is a bitter shame" references Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne.
- ▶️ "A fine addition to my domain" could be referencing General Grievous' "A fine addition to my collection."
- In the Latin America and Spain localization, "¡Gestión de Escudo, chico!" ('Shield management, boy!') and "Gestión de Escudo" ('Managing Shield') respectively by using the Indestructible skill with a 5% chance of occurrence, is a wink that correlates with the Spanish-born content creator Manute, who is known for making didactic content and being one of the best Mordekaiser players in his pre-rework.[1] He is known for saying "Gestión de Escudo" when performing an out-play in 1vs1 taking advantage of the mechanics of the champion's shield itself.
- ▶️ "Misery loves company" references:
- ▶️ "No pain, no drain!" references No Pain no Gain by Scorpions.
- ▶️ "You only need to click once, fool!" is a Meta-reference for in-game movement orders (default: Right Click).
- ▶️ "So be it... Summoner." references Palpatine from Star Wars ("So be it... Jedi")
- ▶️ "Time to shred." references the Shred guitar.
- ▶️ "For great... torment!" resembles ▶️ "For great science!"
- ▶️ "Mordekaiser... are you also a prisoner?" is a reference to The Prisoner by Iron Maiden, which was also the previous name of the Children of the Grave buff.
- Mordekaiser shares quotes with:
