Heimerdinger vs Mordekaiser — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Heimerdinger against Mordekaiser · 56.65% win rate over 263 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Heimerdinger is favoured — Heimerdinger owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Mordekaiser's 1. Heimerdinger wins 56.65% of games vs Mordekaiser in top lane (263 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1HeimerdingerMorde has no dash and no early burst that out-races your sustain, so even one banked turret lets you trade and stockpile charges safely.
Level 2HeimerdingerYour second turret and slowing beams wall the lane off — he eats chip every time he steps up to last-hit, and his W shield bleeds away faster than it heals pre-6.
Level 3Even / skillIt's roughly even before your grenade-stun is online: he can E-pull and Q-slam, but he can't out-DPS a partial nest yet either.
Levels 4-5HeimerdingerA full three-turret nest plus the CH-3X center-stun makes his E-pull-into-Q-slam all-in suicidal — he gets stunned in overlapping beams before the slam lands.
Level 6MordekaiserRealm of Death strips your whole nest and drags you into an isolated 1v1 while stealing your stats — the one window an immobile yordle loses.
First itemEven / skillFirst item is a coinflip: Liandry's/Rylai's lets you kite his siege, but a fed Morde landing R on cooldown can still flip the duel — it comes down to dodging his E.
Two+ itemsHeimerdingerLong-term you out-zone and out-siege him from a rebuilt nest, just don't let a fed Morde one-shot through the buildings inside R — close the lane first.

Early game (levels 1–5)

This lane is yours from the first wave: Morde has no dash and no early burst that out-races your sustain, so bank a turret, then two, and make every last-hit cost him HP — his W shield bleeds out faster than it heals pre-6. Level 3 is the one even beat, because he can E-pull you into a Q slam before your grenade stun is online: place turrets behind you and don't hug the terrain where his pull lands. By 4-5, with the full three-turret nest and the CH-3X center-stun banked, his E-pull-into-Q all-in is suicidal — punish him for even walking up.

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The full Heimerdinger vs Mordekaiser report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.

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