Dr.Mundo

[glass monolith]

Im a top lane main, and lately i found it that Dr. Mundo is actually quite a champion to play. Super fun and just hillarious when you walk into turrets and dive anyone you feel life. Buuuut, i belive theredms alot that im missing, cuz my mundo isnt pushing as hard as he could, soo here are few things i'd like to ask about the Champion.

(Btw nothing that i say is exaggerated, take it litteraly)

I lets talk about the build. Usually what I would do is depending on the enemy laner, either go warmogs and heartsteel. The way i set it up is;

• Am i being poked constantly and can live
• Can I hit the enemy

If the first is a yes and i can hit the enemy, i got heartsteel.
However, if the answer is no, i have a hard time hitting them becuase of poke (Ex. : teemo, vayne, etc), I go warmogs. Also the way i set it is if i build warmogs first i go heartsteel next no matter what. Otherwise, If i go heartsteel first, i go warmogs last.

Usually after going heartsteel first, i would pick sunfire aegis, becuase quite frankly im still on top builds, i do not have my own. My third item is usually titanic hydra which i STILL do not know of how it works. The fourth item is mantle of the twelft hour, becuase well, with all the stats i get, mr and armor + hp, i get lifeline too, which i assume is good for him. Then 5th item, i've been debating on with myself wheter i go for twinguard or warmogs, but from what I know mundo works best with hp???

Soo in the end, 5th is warmogs, UNLESS i go for it first, then the order would be

• Warmogs
• Heartsteel
• Titanic hydra
• Mantle
• Sunfire aegis

BOOTS

Boots are pretty simple, i usually just take either steelcaps or mercury treads depending on enemy composition.

With all that said, i'd still appriciatr if anyone would give additional advice.

AND FOR GODS SAKE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW DOES HEARTSTEEL WORK

I dont really change runes at all btw

[wheat barn]

@glass monolith if you are close to a champ you charge up hearsteel on enemies. At full charge there is a red/silver dot on them and if you hit the enemy it explodes and you deal massibe dmg + get heartseel stacks which permanently increases your max hp

[glass monolith]

Soo THOSE hits give stacks

Not EVERY auto?

[wheat barn]

no

not every auto

only those hits where you hear that sound of steel

[glass monolith]

Yh i know which sound

[wheat barn]

Every single chsmpion has individual cooldown

[glass monolith]

I just wasnt sure

[wheat barn]

I think it was 30 sec or something

[glass monolith]

Soo if im in a 1v2, the heartsteel with activatr on both and i need to hit them?

Cuz it says 700 units

[wheat barn]

yes

you need to hit both

[glass monolith]

Aa right?

[wheat barn]

700 unit is the range the enemy needs to be in to charge it up

[wheat barn]

yes

[glass monolith]

Ahhhh finally abt time

What abt titanic hydra how does that work does it just give x ad based on max hp

I mean bonus hp or whatever

[wheat barn]

I would maybe recommend going demolish

[storm lance]

Warmogs 5th isn't great because that late into the game its passive is meaningless. If you want a good 5th item I would recommend hullbreaker

[wheat barn]

for more sidelane pressire

[wheat barn]

maybe go twinguard instead

[glass monolith]

Dont i kill thr squishies before the 4th hit?

[glass monolith]

I thought its bad

Since no hp

Or maybe i watched too much league

[storm lance]

Also warmogs requires enough bonus health for the passive so going it first isn't great unless your doing the triple giants belt strategy

[glass monolith]

Also what about spirit visage, i had some opinions on it

That i should use instead of mantle

[wheat barn]

twi guard might be strongedt tank item imo also you need more armor/mr

[storm lance]

Not if you go full tank but the main use is to help with late game seiges

[wheat barn]

if you only stack hp you get diminishing returns

[glass monolith]

Ohh it works on turrets?

[storm lance]

Unless your Mundo

[storm lance]

Yep

[wheat barn]

but didn't they chsnge his passive on e

[storm lance]

But twinguard is also a good option since it makes you alot bulkier in teamfights

[wheat barn]

He doesn't get ad based on hp

and at some point getting armor/mr makes him tankirr than pure hp

[storm lance]

He gets it based on missing hp and his ult still scales off of hp

[wheat barn]

but it's a flat value

not more hp = more ad

[glass monolith]

I meant as in, i heard hes stronger the more hp i got

Soo i might have got a mindset where when i see an item without hp, i call it bad

[storm lance]

So hp is more efficient on him but if your gonna go full tank your gonna want some resistances

[glass monolith]

Soo twinguard in that case

Cuz i belive the longer u fight

The bigger the resistance

The multiplier or whatever

[storm lance]

Yes and no. Hes alot tankier with hp and he gets more damage from titanic but it doesn't compound with e passive

[glass monolith]

What else would u do on mundo if not full tank

[glass monolith]

Im slow what does e passive do

[storm lance]

No. After fighting for 5 secs you get more resistances and tenacity

[storm lance]

Bruser Mundo

[wheat barn]

Mundo build for me is hearsteel hydra anti heal thing twinguard and last is flex

[storm lance]

Since he is a juggernaut. Not a tank

[glass monolith]

Yep

I prefer tank

No funny business

[wheat barn]

Sometimes force of nature sometimes sunfire

[storm lance]

More ad on low hp

[glass monolith]

Ohhh yeah

I thought u was talking abt w

I mixed the two

I always forget where the abilities are

[storm lance]

Then instead of mantel maybe try working in a spirit visage or deadmans for more tankyness

[glass monolith]

Soo i mixed w and e

[wheat barn]

But his ult gives ad during its duration

The more hp you have

So it can be more funny to go full hp items but I prefer more defensive items when playing seriously

[glass monolith]

Just to clarify smth

[wheat barn]

Your job is to soak up dmg and eat cc for your own

[glass monolith]

Warmogs first is a good play right? When im being poked alot

Cuz i need the healing

Sometimes

When im lets say counter picked

[storm lance]

If you do the triple belt strategy then yes

[wheat barn]

Warmogs first is never good

Imk

[glass monolith]

Whiiich i dont know

[wheat barn]

Imo

[storm lance]

Never blind pick Mundo

Hes a horrible blind pick

[glass monolith]

Guess i watched alot of league lol

[wheat barn]

You dont ever blind pick mundo

Also your build shouldn‘t revolve about your lane but rather the entire game

Ofc this can change

[glass monolith]

What WOULD be an okay blind if im forced to blind picj

[storm lance]

Aatrox

[wheat barn]

It isn‘t a rule you have to always hold trier

[storm lance]

Fiora

[wheat barn]

Fiora

Aatrox

Malphite

[glass monolith]

Aatrox i can play pretty good

Fiora i didnt learn yet

[wheat barn]

Aatrox contender for best champ inga,e

[storm lance]

Malphite is bad blind pick since Gwen and rumble exist tbh

[wheat barn]

Ingame

[wheat barn]

Worse case scenario you can go 1 ap item into tank

Ludens then normal tank items

[storm lance]

Rumble and wukong are pretty great blind picks imo

[glass monolith]

I actually play aatrox quite often

[storm lance]

Camille

[wheat barn]

Otherwsie, at the end if the day he is still a tank

Tanks will always have value

[storm lance]

Irelia if your good

[wheat barn]

Even if they are 0/10

[glass monolith]

Somewhat

[storm lance]

Fair

[wheat barn]

Irelai not worth it imo

You have to sweat your balls of to do 1% of what aatrox does with 1 aa in ult

[glass monolith]

This kinda

Why is that true honestly

And the ult i get with aatrox

Is crazy

[storm lance]

Once aatrox gets nerfed it might be worth again

[glass monolith]

But i only really use aatrox for certain matchups

[wheat barn]

See you in 2032

[storm lance]

(Wich probably won't happen for awhile)

[glass monolith]

Like against nasus

Idk what winning match is for aatrox

I just know nasus gets clapped

[storm lance]

Oh renekton is a good blind pick

[storm lance]

Almost every matchup is a winning one for aatrox

Except fiora

[glass monolith]

Is ambessa an okay blind pick?

In pretty good w her

[storm lance]

Shes fine

[glass monolith]

I like to take her into sion and bully them

[storm lance]

Your gonna get rocked by poppy but every outher matchup is fine

Also the singed matchup isn't great but nobody plays singed

[glass monolith]

Sad

Say, now that u mentioned fiora, im kinda interested

How hard REALLY is it

Cuz i know what each ability does on a surface level

And how she works

[storm lance]

Not that hard tbh

[glass monolith]

Hardest mechanics is ult for me

On paper

Wise

[storm lance]

You just have to know your splipushing macro and outher than that shes not to hard

[quick zephyr]

mundo is fun and all until you fight a top laner with a brain and you get perma zoned from playing the game for 7 minutes

[outer lotus]

@flat nest enlighten this man

[woven crag]

Which are the others

[outer lotus]

Poppy and Baguette woman

[woven crag]

Fiora?

But shes so ahh

[outer lotus]

No Garen

[woven crag]

When i play against her

[outer lotus]

Then u havent played vs a good fiora

[woven crag]

Bruiser garen? Cuz tank lowk buns

[outer lotus]

The good ones are all chall/sov

[storm lance]

Riven

[wheat barn]

aatrox viego lee sin ezreal naut/rell

[woven crag]

Why everyone saying diff things

🥀

[storm lance]

Everyone has different opinions

[flat nest]

Who needs mundo to Enlighten?

[storm lance]

@glass monolith

[flat nest]

Go warmogs first or second item. If you don't have it first or second, no building it.

It's useless past it's effect and stars early.

When patch 7.0 comes out, warmogs is getting spirit visage passive and will become perma build like heartsteel.

Mantle very good as it's max health increased based on 45% of bonus max health, scales well with ult.

Sunfire good for wave clear, pairs well with titanic hydra. But go titanic hydra before you go sunfire.

When patch 7.0 comes out, swap sunfire for new sunfire Mr item.

Twinguard. Twinguard makes mundo extra tanky and reduces cc and slows on mundo, which are way to kill mundo.

Defences also scale well with health as decreasing the % damage you take means your effective health is much larger. 80% DMG reduction? Great! You health of 7k is now 28 thousand!

Boots simple, but once swifties are added to game in future, build those. Mundo need speed. Mundo go brrr.

Heartsteel gives stats, every 30s (per target) while in a radius, heartsteel charge up. When charged up enemy have little sphere, bonk them. Gain lot of nice sound and scale your health based on 10% of damage.

Mundo likes situational items, build them if needed. Mundo not always build same.

Deadmans plate very great item for mundo, more movespeed and slow on hit? Plus good stats.

Mundo like spirit visage, helps counter anti heal and makes ult 30% more effective

Radiant virtue is great stats and boosts ult.

Pair radiant virtue and spirit visage and anti heal now useless against mundo.

Radiant virtue also boosts max health by further 10%

Mundo is weak early game.

Power spikes are at levels 3, 5, 9 and 12.

Mundo at level 3 with 1 point in all normal skills can do trades or all in enemy ranged top if they mess up

Focus on surviving and not inting

Kills unnecessary but greatly appreciated

Focus on minions for money

Turrets, jungle camps from enemy also.

That where you get fed

Or bullying enemy adc with ult

If enemy adc not omega fed.

If enemy is weak early, you can start mundo E

And gain wave prio

Abuse this for early plates from tower

Or potential kills

Q start otherwise

If starting warmogs. Don't recall when you can buy warmogs unless you have enough health from overgrowth/grasp to activate passive

Or enough gold to buy extra ruby crystal or giants belts.

Further more, you want to maximum gold effiency.

Buying 3 ruby crystals is better than buying other stuff

For example.

Heartsteel have giants belt, ruby crystal and the item that gives ability haste and builds from ruby crystal

Ruby crystal gives 150 hp

Costs 500 gold

150 hp = 500 gold

Giants belt is 100% same value

As it gives 300 hp and is worth 1000 gold total

The item that builds from ruby crystal costs 500 gold to upgrade. But only gives 175 hp and 10 ability haste.

Ability haste not as useful on mundo.

Therefore, if you have 2000 gold, and want heartsteel components

Instead of buying 1 giants belt and 1 thingy that builds from ruby crystal and gives 175 hp

But 1 giants belt and 2 ruby crystals

Still building into heartsteel, but with better gold effiency

Meaning you have 2000 gold value of hp

And not about 1500 golds worth of hp for 2000 gold instead.

This way, you can abuse your golds value much more.

Irs hate this strategy as it allows mundo to gain interest at much faster rate

And snowball his economy into owning the game

[flat nest]

Mundo has enlightened.

[flat nest]

Mundo has enlightened.

[storm lance]

you should probably add who to ban. like wich of his counters you want to ban (fiora,vayne,gwen,etc)

[flat nest]

Full damage builds, but these only good if enemy all squishy and you already fed, or if enemy has lots of max health damage or true damage or both.

[flat nest]

Gwen is most consistent ban.

Gwen is full of bad players

But,

Gwen is very strong into mundo

Mundo needs to be incredibly fed and full damage builds to beat her

Otherwise she claps mundo, good or bad.

And Gwen only needs to be decent to fully counter mundo 90% of time.

Fiora can be countered against

And falls off late game

And is bad in most team fights

Build bramble vest and she can't heal now from fighting

Then you just need to have heartsteel and such and you win over time by chipping her down

Or if have warmogs, slightly back away and she has no way to stop warmogs passive healing

Vayne is weak.

She "counters" mundo

Until mundo level 3 and mundo has saved mundo's own hp

As then mundo can fully engage

And smack her hard enough for her to need to recall

While mundo can remain quite healthy

Mundo once having ult, becomes very hard for vaynes to kill

Build heartsteel and boom, she's going to die.

Build hydra after?

She's dead every time.

Build deadmans?

She can't even run!

[storm lance]

she does not fall off lamo. maybe in teamfights but her splitpushing is unmatched

[flat nest]

Mundo meant in terms of team fights and objectives. Which determine late game alot.

Split pushing she is very very good in.

And if she knows how to quick activate all her passives from ult

Can kill mundo in ult with radiant virtue and spirit visage.

But generally, Gwen is more worthwhile ban

Plus, fiora is even more uncommon than Gwen

And fiora has alot worse players on average

But fiora players have very high range in terms of skill

Very bad, to insane mechanical players.

Low lows, high highs essentially

[outer lotus]

That's why mundo best business man