If Mordekaiser kills his target, he will keep any stolen stats for the remainder of the round.
If Mordekaiser is in the Death Realm with the target dummy on the shop platform map when the combat phase ensues, he is immediately forced out of the Death Realm, ending the ability prematurely.
The Ring of Fire is special-cased to not apply its effects against units inside the Death Realm.
In the Reckoner Arena battlefield, the pillars will stay visible and will behave as normal inside of Death Realm, with the exception of them being untargetable.
Twilight Shroud will follow her between realms.
This bug was fixed on patch V14.1, but it is still present in Arena.
If someone who enters the Death Realm has the augment Chauffeur, their hitbox will follow their ally, while they appear to stand still at the position where they entered the Death Realm.
Abilities
PassiveDarkness Rise
Mordekaiser gains a powerful damage aura and Move Speed after landing 3 attacks or spells against champions or monsters.
QObliterate8/7/6/5/4s
Mordekaiser smashes the ground with his mace dealing damage to each enemy struck. Damage is increased when hitting a single enemy.
WIndestructible12/11/10/9/8s
Mordekaiser stores damage he deals and takes to create a shield. He may consume the shield to heal.
EDeath's Grasp16/14/12/10/8s
Mordekaiser pulls all enemies in an area.
Only when they cast an ability, will they visually teleport to their real position. Once the cast of that ability is over, they will visually teleport back to their original position.
If the ally of someone who enters the Death Realm has the augment Chauffeur, this ally will follow them into the Death Realm.
This ally will only follow the main target out of the Death Realm if they are currently attached or once they reattach.
That means that if they have a way to permanently deattach from their ally, they can permanently stay in the Death Realm.
RRealm of Death140/120/100s
Mordekaiser drags his victim to a different dimension with him and steals a portion of their stats. If he kills them, he keeps the stats until the victim respawns.
Patch history
26.17 · Aug 26, 2026
Realm of Death
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused the Death Realm's background for the PROJECT Mordekaiser skin to incorrectly render below the map, making it mostly invisible except for some details that clipped through the map.
26.16 · Aug 12, 2026
General
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused the Ctrl-3's Loop SFX to play intermittently while using all skins except for the Pentakill Mordekaiser and Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser skins.
Death's Grasp
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Tooltip now mentions the magic penetration granted.
Realm of Death
Removed: No longer has the Trait_ImmobilizingCCSpell tag.
1 This means it no longer benefits from Imperial MandateControl.
26.15 · Jul 29, 2026
Death's Grasp
Cooldown reduced to 16 to 8 seconds from 18 to 10.
Realm of Death
Stat steal reduced to 10% from 13%.
Bug Fix: Inverted the order of operations for the maximum health reduction to prevent the ability from dealing up to double its intended damage to enemies whose current health exceeds their post-reduction maximum health.
26.14 · Jul 15, 2026
Death's Grasp
Base damage increased to 60 to 140 from 60 to 120.
AP ratio increased to 45% AP from 40% AP.
Realm of Death
Stat steal increased to 13% from 10%.
26.12 · Jun 10, 2026
General
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused the Recall animation for the Prestige Money Miser Mordekaiser skin's Vivid chroma to incorrectly render one of its textures as a square.
Realm of Death
Undocumented / New Effect: Now has the Trait_ImmobilizingCCSpell tag.
1 In normal Summoner's Rift, the Trait_ImmobilizingCCSpell tag is used for the purpose of Imperial MandateControl.
35 older patches
26.11 · May 28, 2026
Realm of Death
Undocumented / Removed: No longer has the Trait_ImmobilizingCCSpell tag.
26.9 · Apr 29, 2026
Death's Grasp
Undocumented / Removed: Tooltip no longer mentions the magic penetration granted.
1 The extended tooltip still mentions it, and the ability still grants magic penetration.
26.8 · Apr 15, 2026
General
Undocumented: The Dance emote (Ctrl-3) for the Prestige Money Miser Mordekaiser skin now keeps its spotlight on for the entire animation instead of only appearing briefly when the animation loops.
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused Darkness Rise'scast instance to restart when entering or leaving the Realm of Death while using the PROJECT Mordekaiser or Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser skins if the aura was hitting an enemy champion.
26.2 · Jan 22, 2026
General
Undocumented / Bug Fix: Fixed an issue that caused the player's camera to be more zoomed-in than normal when using the Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser skin.
25.19 · Sep 24, 2025
Realm of Death
New Effect: Summon: Tibbers, H-28Q Apex Turret and Daisy! now follow their summoner between realms.
25.16 · Aug 13, 2025
Obliterate
New Effect: Damage now scales with 120% bonus AD, increased against isolated targets.
25.12 · Jun 11, 2025
Obliterate
Base damage increased to 80 to 220 from 80 to 200.
Cast targeting changed to location-clamped (targeting "toward the mouse pointer") from facing direction.
This is a full revert to pre-25.07 functionality.
25.10 · May 14, 2025
Obliterate
Bug Fix: The ability no longer changes its initial direction when his facing direction is changed via displacement or using Flash.
The direction may still change via these effects late into the cast.
25.9 · Apr 30, 2025
Darkness Rise
Bug Fix: Tooltip now states the correct duration of the effect, 4 seconds instead of 5 seconds.
Realm of Death
Undocumented / New Effect: Eulogy of the Isles now follows Yorick between realms.
25.7
Obliterate
Cast targeting changed to facing direction from location-clamped (targeting "toward the mouse pointer").
25.4
Realm of Death
Bug Fix: Torches now render at the correct locations.
14.22
Death's Grasp
Base damage reduced to 60 to 120 from 70 to 130.
AP ratio reduced to 40% AP from 60% AP.
14.20
Obliterate
Single target bonus damage reduced to 30 to 50% from 40 to 60%.
14.15
Realm of Death
Bug Fix:Aurora Between Worlds rift is no longer usable by Aurora within the Realm of Death if created outside of it/before entering it.
Bug Fix:Aurora Between Worlds rift VFX are no longer visible across dimensions.
14.14
Realm of Death
Bug Fix: Background textures from Encore no longer incorrectly override Death Realm on-ground VFX.
14.11
Darkness Rise
Base damage per second reduced to 5 at all levels from 5 to 15.2.
Damage cap against monsters increased to 40 to 200 from 28 to 164.
Obliterate
Base damage increased to 80 to 200 from 75 to 155.
Base damage per level reduced to 0 to 45 from 5 to 139.
Realm of Death
Bug Fix: Cast now properly consumes Void Shift spell shield.
14.8
Darkness Rise
Bug Fix: No longer gains a stack for attacks that are dodged.
Obliterate
Cooldown reduced to 8 to 4 seconds from 9 to 4.
Death's Grasp
Base damage reduced to 70 to 130 from 80 to 140.
Realm of Death
Removed: No longer dispelled if the target uses an applicable cleansing effect.
Removal interaction had parity with the removal interactions of suppression; cleanses that would remove suppression now no longer dispel the Realm of Death.
Crowd control immunities will still resist banishment.
