Champion Guide

Dr. Mundo Guide

By LoLSuggest

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Dr. Mundo is a scaling top-lane tank who heals through almost anything once his items and Maximum Dosage are online. Infected Bonesaw and Blunt Force Trauma poke from range, Heart Zapper stores incoming damage that he can heal back, and Goes Where He Pleases lets him shrug off crowd control by picking up his canister. His early game is very weak, but from his rank 2 ultimate he becomes a real threat, and at rank 3 he can walk into five people and run down the carry.

Recommended Setup

Our recommended Dr. Mundo build

Our recommended runes, summoner spells and items. Compare build win rates on the stats page.

Items

Starting Items

Core Items

Situational Items

Start Doran's Shield and a Health Potion, or Doran's Helm against mixed damage such as Volibear, Jax or Warwick. The standard build is Heartsteel, Plated Steelcaps, Spirit Visage and Warmog's Armor, then Titanic Hydra and Overlord's Bloodmail for damage; build Titanic Hydra before Overlord's Bloodmail. Swap in Thornmail when you need healing reduction or face percent-health physical damage, and go heavier on resistances with Kaenic Rookern, Jak'Sho, The Protean, Randuin's Omen or Sunfire Aegis when the enemy team is fed. Sterak's Gage is a strong pick once you have Spirit Visage. Run Grasp of the Undying with Demolish, Second Wind and Overgrowth, plus Magical Footwear and Approach Velocity. Take Flash with Teleport, or Ghost with Teleport. Max E, then Q, then W.

Runes

Primary Tree

Secondary Tree

Summoner Spells

Skill Max Order

Strengths

Huge late-game scaling: with rank 3 Maximum Dosage he regenerates health extremely fast.
Heart Zapper turns enemy burst into healing when it is timed well.
Blunt Force Trauma clears waves well, so he can hold side lanes against split pushers.

Weaknesses

A very weak early game with little power to fight most champions.
Percent-health damage from champions such as Fiora, Gwen or Kog'Maw melts him at every stage.
Hard counter matchups like Irelia or Illaoi can leave him just trying to survive lane.

Laning Phase

Early on you cannot fight most champions, so poke with Infected Bonesaw and Blunt Force Trauma, which passes through minions, and only go in once the enemy is low. Use Heart Zapper to absorb big damage such as Sett's Haymaker, Volibear's Sky Splitter or a fully stacked Gwen Q. Do not fight in the river or invade early; at level 6 use Maximum Dosage to regenerate rather than mid-combat. From around level 8 or 9 you can start taking longer fights. In hard counter matchups your goal changes from scaling to simply not dying.

Mid & Late Game

With rank 2 Maximum Dosage you can fight far more champions and tank for your team. If the enemy top laner out-split-pushes you, either force 4v5 teamfights or match them in the side lane, where Blunt Force Trauma clears waves well; against weaker side laners keep pressuring towers, and use Demolish with a cannon wave to take huge chunks of tower health. Late in the game you can walk into the enemy team and chase their carry, but stay aware of percent-health damage dealers.

Key Tips

When you are low and have health stored from Heart Zapper, cast Maximum Dosage first and then pop W, because the ultimate scales with missing health.
Attack first and then use Blunt Force Trauma, since it resets your attack.
Spirit Visage increases both Infected Bonesaw's heal and Heart Zapper's healing.
Fake walking toward your dropped canister to bait enemies into Infected Bonesaw range.

Matchups

Matchups and synergies

Our picks for difficult opponents, favorable lanes and strong allies. Compare matchup win rates on the stats page.