Mid · 21 games · EUW

Smolder

Mid · 11% of games Bot · 80%

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−109 gold).

Win rate: 42.9%; ±21.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: C; #52 of 72
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 0.1%
Games: 21; ranked solo/duo

Smolder mid wins 42.9% of 21 ranked games in EUW, rank 52 of 72 mid champions (tier C). Most players finish Essence Reaver first, at about 11:42.

The build at a glance

What most Smolder players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Item 1

Essence Reaver 11:50 · 100% · 20 games

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity 11:30 · 48% of games

Item 2 · late game

Infinity Edge 18:18 · 6 of 21 games

Item 3 · late game

Rapid Firecannon 25:06 · 4 of 17 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Inspiration 19% of games · 25% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 62% of games · 31% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 86% of games · 39% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Super Scorcher Breath first 95% of games · 45% wins Skill orders →

When Smolder wins

Win rate by game length

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Lasts 25′ or more44% wins76% of games · 16

Lanes

No clear counters yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Smolder games

First tower: 75% against 23%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First tower 23% 75% +52

First Baron 25% 67% +42

First dragon 33% 56% +22

First Voidgrubs 33% 50% +17

Rift Herald 40% 50% +10

First blood 43% 43% ±0

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Smolder plays

Fewer solo kills, more multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average mid laner. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Fewer solo kills a game0.8 against 1.9 · −59%

More multikills a game1.14 against 0.79 · +44%

More time spent dead7.5s against 6.3s a minute · +19%

More deaths a game6.8 against 5.7 · +19%

Less damage to towers6108 against 7210 · −15%

About average: control wards, gold, kill participation, vision.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~11:42

Item 2done ~19:24

Item 3done ~24:54

Item 4done ~31:48

Most common full builds

Essence Reaver › Gluttonous Greaves › Infinity Edge › Lord Dominik's Regards 50.0%4 games

Essence Reaver › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Rapid Firecannon › Infinity Edge 33.3%3 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Infinity Edge 33%6

Rapid Firecannon 25%8

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Doran's Blade + Health Potion30.8%13

Doran's Helm + Health Potion75.0%4

Cull + Health Potion50.0%2

Boots

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:3020.0%10

Gluttonous Greaves ~12:0062.5%8

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport38.9%18

Exhaust + Flash50.0%2

Cleanse + Flash100.0%1

Skills

Max

E45.0%20

Max

W0.0%1

Start

E30.8%13

Start

W66.7%6

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Smolder dies 2.4 times a game (average 2.3). 57% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 48% for the average mid laner. 29% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.4deaths per game before 14′more than average (2.3)

57%involve the enemy junglermore than average (48%)

71%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

59%with no teammate nearabout average (61%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Smolder dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 34% in your half of mid. Collapses: 29% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 87% in your half of mid.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average mid laner

What kills Smolder

Kind of death

Smolder Average

Gank 57% (avg 48%)Collapse 14% (avg 19%)1-v-1 29% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Smolder Average

Bot laner 4% (avg 7%)Jungler 37% (avg 27%)Support 8% (avg 7%)Mid laner 45% (avg 54%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00

Smolder Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Smolder; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Smolder wins fights

Where fights happen

Before 14 minutes: 29 kills and 51 deaths.

Your half of mid 0.2 K/D 4 / 25

Their half of mid 1.4 K/D 11 / 8

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Smolder wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 36% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 67% when Smolder is there and 63% when not.

Smolder

What most Smolder players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 75% against 23%

Fewer solo kills, more multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Smolder's games

Dies about as often as most mid laners, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

What kills Smolder

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00

Where fights happen

Where fights happen

Where fights happen