Mordekaiser vs Lillia — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Lillia · 49.88% win rate over 11 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Mordekaiser is favoured — Mordekaiser owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Lillia's 1. Mordekaiser wins 49.88% of games vs Lillia in top lane (11 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1Even / skillNeither of you has a level-1 all-in — she has no dash trade and you have no Darkness Rise aura up yet, so it's a coin-flip farm lane.
Level 2MordekaiserAt 2 your Q + W combo lets you bank a shield and land the single-target Obliterate sweetspot for bonus damage and a Darkness Rise stack before her burn-kite ramps.
Level 3MordekaiserBy 3 you out-trade her Blooming Blow bounce poke — E pulls her into Obliterate range and Darkness Rise starts grinding her down.
Levels 4-5Even / skillThrough 4-5 you stay even: you win any trade you can pin with E, but she safely chips you with her passive burn and Q poke when you can't.
Level 6MordekaiserRealm of Death is your spike — boxing her 1v1 deletes her terrain-and-move-speed kiting and your aura out-grinds her with no escape.
First itemMordekaiserYour first magic item plus the magic pen on Death's Grasp makes the E-into-Q-and-aura all-in lethal the moment she over-commits a Blooming Blow bounce.
Two+ itemsLilliaShe out-scales you: full-AP Lillia kites on her stacking move speed, chips with her ramping passive burn, and her R sleep breaks your aura — so play for the early lead.

Early game (levels 1–5)

"Lillia has no point-blank trade at level 1 either, so contest CS evenly and watch her Q (Blooming Blow) range — if she leans in to bounce it on you, she's stepped into your E (Death's Grasp) range. At 2 and especially 3 you have the real trade: bank a W shield, walk her down, and land the single-target sweetspot on Obliterate to start Darkness Rise. She has no dash to escape your E once you've pinned her, but the moment she gets move speed off her abilities she drifts out, so commit only when your E is up to reel her back."

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The full Mordekaiser vs Lillia 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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