LOL: The winks of the Mordekaiser skills to the heavy metal with which Riot honored the genre

Mordekaiser He arrived in League of Legends in 2010 with the title of Master Master. In 2019 , he received a Rework that changed his state to the iron nightmare and also brought a series of modifications to his skills. At that time, the champion's skills received the Metal song name , a very popular rock genre worldwide. With the redesign, the names have changed, but they are still inspired by different songs and rock bands, which you can see below in a real playlist.

In addition to some skills bear the exact name of certain songs and bands, several of the references were also confirmed by Sunny Kindlejack Pandita, who worked in both versions of the champion and is the main conceptual artist in the team of the team Development of LOL champions.

Old Mordekaiser

Passive: Iron-Ron Man

Iron Man is the name of one of the most famous songs of the British Heavy Metal Black Sabbath. The song is sung by the popular and eccentric vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.

Q: Maza de Picas-Mace of Spades

(M) Ace of Spades is one of the most famous songs of the English band Motörhead and for a long time it was the name of Mordekaiser's Q.

W: Sadness-Harvester of Sorrow

The old W of the iron nightmare brought a reference to the American band Metallica, one of the most popular contemporary rock bands, with the song Harvester of Sorrow.

E: Destruction Siphon-Siphon of Destruction

Another American band that was part of the Mordekaiser skills kit was Megadeth, with the song Symphony of Destruction.

R-PASIVA: Dragon-Dragonforce Force

The English Power Metal band Dragonforce named the passive of the champion's final. Check out a famous song of the group below, which in turn has become one of the most difficult to play in the Guitar Hero saga:

R: Children of the Tomb-Children of the Grave

Here we have the Black Sabbath of Ozzy again, this time naming the active of the final of the champion.

Morgenstern

Morgenstern, which in German means Lucero del Alba, is the name of a medieval weapon that in Portuguese is known as a whip of weapons or whip of roldão-is to say, it is the real name of the weapon of the old q of Mordekaiser, it is also the Name of a song of the mythical German band Rammstein.

Current Mordekaiser

Liabilities: Board of Darkness-Darkness Rise

Lol's community believes that two references can fit in this liability: the song Atlas, Rise! from Metallica, or the song The Rise of Darkness of the Immortal group.

** q: Ani-bliterate

Obliterate is the name of a Grindcore band of Slovakia, founded in 1992 and with great success in that decade:

W: indestructible

This is the name of a very famous song of the American Metal Disturbed band, who has been very dear and respected by fans for many years.

E: Death-Death's Grasp hug

Pentakill: This is a reference to a song from Mordekaiser's own band, Pentakill, the first musical group that Riot brought together with his champions and dismembered a good amount of fans of both metal and Moba.

R: Kingdom of Death-Realm of Death

The latest of the current Mordekaiser is a reference to the song Beyond the Realms of Death of the British heavy metal band Judas Priest.

Pentakill

Pentakill is a virtual band of League of Legends formed by the Sona champions, Kayle, Karthus, Mordekaiser, Olaf, Yorick and Viego. Composed of musicians such as Jørn Lande in real life, the band has three albums: Smite and Ignite of 2014, Grasp of the Undying of 2017 and The Lost Chapter of 2021.

In 2015, Pentakill acted in the grand final of the second Split of the CBLOL of that year, whose final took place between Pain and Intz.

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