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Conduit Gem
Lost Artifact
Healing Potion
Multi Potion
Horn Shard
Purification Beads
My go-to build. Gets online quickly, earlier access to CD, and good clear early.
Gem of Focus
Doom Orb
Spear of Desolation
Polynomicon
Calamitous Rod of Tahuti
Obsidian Shard
Leveling order can sometimes depend on your transforms. Since morri ult can't scale down in CD, you can level your ultimate until it matches your priority transform's ultimate cooldown. You can also level differently to make certain transforms stronger, for example a Susanno gets more value out of leveling your ultimate over your 3.
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Personally my least favorite build, conduit feels much better for early, and Gem of Focus provides extra movement which helps kiting, but sands build pathing gives you access to more flat pen. Chef's choice though.
Pendulum of Ages
Doom Orb
Spear of Desolation
Polynomicon
Divine Ruin
Calamitous Rod of Tahuti
Very inflexible build, not much space for situational items but this build hits like a TRUCK late game. I normally do this build in solo lane/jungle where I want to scale and the items like Divine Ruin are covered by my mid laner already.
Gem of Focus
Chronos' Pendant
Doom Orb
Book of Thoth
Polynomicon
Typhon's Fang
The exact same thing as the Thoth build but with Bumba's Spear which lets you farm easily. Also gives a lot of power and cap % pen late game.
Bumba's Spear
Chronos' Pendant
Book of Thoth
Polynomicon
Divine Ruin
Typhon's Fang
Magi's Revenge
Book of Thoth
Obsidian Shard
Soul Reaver
Calamitous Rod of Tahuti
Breastplate of Valor
Aegis of Acceleration
Temporal Beads
Persistent Teleport
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The Morrigan, my FAVORITE god. (if you couldn't tell)
Meteor/Indra's Scepter
The Morrigan's passive, 
Doomsayer, does NOT work to help break the meteor faster, but Polynomicon does. Morrigan is also pseudo-revealed if she picks up the Scepter due to it NOT going invisible when she does. It will just follow you around while you are in your 3, showing the enemy your movements. If any enemy picks it up, it will hit you while you are in stealth, instantly revealing you if you get close.
Proximity/Raven Wards
BOTH of these wards can see through stealth AND reveal you. I'm not sure if it's a bug, or they made a typo on the item descriptions, but just keep that in mind. The proximity ward WILL explode even if you walk over it while stealthed, and it will then reveal you for the next TEN seconds.
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? 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. The Gem of Focus upgrade is also one of the best mage starters in the game, and when combined with Doom Orb, you will be borderline untouchable while kiting around team fights. Divine Ruin? Divine Ruin helps Morrigan 1 shot a lot more consistently. You can also go Book of Thoth if you don't want to/don't need Divine Ruin or Spear of Desolation as it will make you scale harder. Book of Thoth? Typhon's Fang or 
Rod of Tahuti. (they both give you the SAME amount of power due to Book of Thoth mana scaling increase, just pick either more pen from Typhons or more scaling from Tahuti passive.) Typhon's Fang over Obsidian Shard? Polynomicon and Book of Thoth, Typhon's gives you the same power that Rod of Tahuti offers you, but with 10% more penetration and more lifesteal. It's also cheaper overall than purchasing a Tahuti, so when I build those 2 items, I tend to go for a Typhon's pickup. On the other hand, Obsidian Shard is a good poking item, as it gives you 20% extra penetration for every other Dark Omen that you hit on an enemy (assuming you are hitting them on cooldown)), at the cost for about a roughly 40 power loss when compared to Typhon's. Overall, both good items to build.
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Dark Omen through the wave, "accidentally" hitting them, and then stealthing towards the jungle to pretend as if I'm going to start the mid camps, and when they turn the corner to contest or check if I'm on them, that's when I hit them with my Deadly Aspects and Polynomicon combo. Normally this combo paired with the extra damage from the previous mark applied by Dark Omen is enough to send most mid laners back to the grey screen.
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 
Thoth 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.
Atlas, 
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 and 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 
Heimdallr, 
Morgan Le Fay, and 
Ganesha, 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 
Hachiman or 
Set transform, or swap into something like the enemy 
Hera 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, 
Da Ji, and 
Ravana. 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.
Scylla 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?
Mulan: You have 0 ability training on transform, meaning you lose access to her evolved abilities (double hit 2, triple hit 1, heal from your 2, etc.)
Cu Chulainn: Starts off with 25 rage on transform, not allowing you to get rage form during the duration of your transformation (in most cases)
King Arthur: Don't start with your ultimate energy charge, removing one of KA's best abilities from your arsenal.
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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.