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Conduit Gem
Gem
Archmage's Gem
Book of Thoth (Evolved)
Chronos' Pendant
Polynomicon
Soul Gem
Rod of Tahuti
Helm Of Darkness
I like to put 3 points in my 3rd ability, Confusion, after maxing out my Dark Omen. This gives us enough time to dump our kit before teleporting out with Aspect of Mischief since the teleportation/swapping window increases with the rank of Confusion.
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The Morrigan, my FAVORITE god. (if you couldn't tell)
Clone Placement
If you are trying to gank or rotate into a fight and you're fighting someone with a dash or leap, you can position your clone in a way to flank them, while walking towards them to get them to use their mobility near your clone. Once they burn their movement near your clone, swap places with it, and engage on them. This can be a very easy way to get free kills on unsuspecting enemies.
Helm Of Darkness + Confusion
Helm of Darkness DOESN'T break upon teleporting with Morrigan's Aspect of Mischief. This means you can have both STEALTH and TELEPORTATION. You do this by throwing out your clone, pressing your Helm Of Darkness, and then pressing Deadly Aspects, followed by Confusion once more to swap places with your clone while stealthed. After priming your Deadly Aspects, be sure to wait a second to allow the sound cue of your ability to finish, that way the enemy won't be able to hear your 1's sound cue as you teleport. This technique is VERY deceptive and makes it appear as if your clone has "despawned" but in reality, there is now a stealthed Morrigan in their midst.
Chronos' Pendant?
Chronos' Pendant's passive really well due to her high CD Ultimate. She also can poke very well due to her 2 being on a very low CD, but it doesn't do too much damage unless you or another teammate procs the debuff applied to the target. This is why I build Chronos' Pendant, and time my 2's so that I get the Chronos reset while my 2 is on cooldown to get maximum value out of the item. Conduit Gem over 
Sands of Time?
Doomsayer increases her clear dramatically, so using this in tandem with 
Conduit Gem helps bolster this pressure to push your leads even further. [.
Divine Ruin?
Divine Ruin is a pretty appealing option, but unfortunately you don't really have space for it in this build as giving up any of your items is either too much of a damage or too much of a CDR loss. But if you ABSOLUTELY need it and your main transform isn't going to be building any anti-heal, you can go Divine Ruin in place of 
Soul Gem.
Book of Thoth? The Morrigan has a lot harder time one shotting back-liners until HYPER late game. Book of Thoth helps with her one shot potential A LOT especially when combined with 
Archmage's Gem and Soul Gem. Helm Of Darkness? Helm Of Darkness, you can swap it with an 
Obsidian Shard or even a 
Soul Reaver if they have a very HP-heavy team comp.
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Dark Omen, then swap with your clone as it approaches the enemy and follow up with a swift 
Deadly Aspects and 
Polynomicon auto. After this, follow up with a transform of your choice using Changeling to finish them off. This also works if you're NOT using Aspect of Mischief. Just remove the initial clone deployment part of the combo.
Dark Omen at max range and hit whoever is the most pushed up without putting yourself out of position. If no one else is proccing the mark from Dark Omen consistently, try to aim for the same targets that you marked previously to get the bonus damage.(since this is HALF of your damage) I would also recommend timing your Dark Omen to be on cooldown right as your Chronos' Pendant is about to proc as this will remove a second off of your already 4s cooldown ability. After the enemy team either decides to initiate a fight, or your team starts to push in, you can then to assess the situation and think about whether you can get close enough to use Deadly Aspects, or if using Changeling immediately would be more impactful.
Dark Omen, if you waste it on poke, the enemy mid-laner can easily out-clear you and shove a wave into your tower. Get a 
Ward or two whenever you can, as being caught out as The Morrigan on this map is a death sentence due to the long pathing you'd have to take around walls. Morrigan also gets outpressured by many of her mid lane matchups due to the nature of her waveclear: she has to stand in front of the enemy melee creeps to hit the entire wave with Dark Omen. This makes her an easy target for ranged and AoE mages like 
Vulcan or 
Agni to poke down WHILE clearing waves. To avoid this, let them clear wave first while you just max range poke the melee minions. The recent buffs to Conduit Gem make this even easier.
Susano transform you can easily bait the enemy mid-laner after clearing the wave, resulting in free kills, or at least free relics most of the time. Since Morrigan's power spikes mainly revolve around your available transformations, it's going to vary greatly from match to match.
Odin, and 
Hun Batz, it's best to try to dive a little more with your Hun Batz to utilize a delayed double 
Fear No Evil. Since this ultimate gets HEAVY DR and the enemy is most likely to beads/aegis the first Batz ult, it's better to delay your ultimate slightly to capitalize off of the opportunity created for you. Sometimes when the enemy team has a very peel-heavy composition such as 
Artemis, 
Geb, and 
Aphrodite, it might not be easy for you to get your damage off in a dive. In this scenario, it would be best for you to play back a little more and spam poke and play more as a traditional backline. Depending on relic usage by the enemy team, you can either clean up the enemy team with something like a Artemis or 
Thanatos transform, or swap into something like the enemy 
Poseidon to burst down their backline while they're CC'ed by your frontline. I like to think about how a team fight will unravel in a given game and calculate my playstyle/transformation accordingly.
Hun Batz, 
Achilles, and 
Hades. These transforms allow Morrigan to dive easily with her transform after using her Deadly Aspects and Polynomicon combo. One thing to note is that Changeling is NOT CC-immune. You can get stun-locked out of your ultimate very easily. You also cannot use 
Purification Beads with your ultimate selection wheel open, so if you start transforming and you think you're going to get CC'ed out of it, it's best to pre-beads.
Ra to try to secure/steal it. Another example is transforming into Thanatos to quickly rotate and gank the enemy ADC that is invading your team's purple buff. A thing that I like to do before every game is to identify every good or situational transformation in the lobby. Do they have any global transforms? Any secure transforms? Who's going to be my comfort/safety transform?
Mordred you don't have any Wrath upon tranformation, meaning you essentially don't have an ultimate.
Yemoja Not necessarily a BAD transformation, but you don't have ANY Omi upon transformation meaning you have to immediately use Yemoja's ultimate to regain half of your Omi. It's a very big downside, but if you play around this fact you can make this transformation work WONDERS for your team.
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"Morrigan abuses Chronos Pendant's passive really well due to her high CD Ultimate. She also can poke very well due to her 2 being on a very low CD, but it doesn't do too much damage unless you or another teammate procs the debuff applied to the target. This is why I build Chronos Pendant, and time my 2's so that I get the Chronos reset while my 2 is on cooldown to get maximum value out of the item."
Also why they don't like Gem early:
"Morrigan's early clear is a lot worse than most mages as her clear has recently been nerfed, and her 2 is her only ability that you're using on wave most of the time. Conduit Gem helps relieve some of that issue by giving you a bunch of extra true damage. Conduit gem also helps you secure mid-camps a lot easier as Morrigan's secure is lackluster compared to most mages you're going to be fighting in mid-lane."
I appreciate the time taken for these explanations.