Top · 28 games · EUW

Smolder

On average behind the lane opponent at 15 minutes (−537 gold), and still wins 54%.

Win rate: 53.6%; ±18.5 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #41 of 87
Pick rate: 0.3%; ban 0.3%
Games: 28; ranked solo/duo

Smolder top wins 53.6% of 28 ranked games in EUW, rank 41 of 87 top champions (tier B). Most players finish Essence Reaver first, at about 12:18.

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 12:28 · 100% · 25 games

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 14:06 · 39% of games

Item 2

Black Cleaver 21:49 · 76% · 16 games

Item 3 · late game

Rapid Firecannon 27:36 · 4 of 14 games

Item 4 · late game

Infinity Edge 31:54 · 4 of 8 games

Runes

Deathfire Touch · Sorcery + Inspiration 21% of games · 67% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Blade + Health Potion 54% of games · 53% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 71% of games · 55% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Super Scorcher Breath first 75% of games · 52% 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.

Ends before 25′43% wins25% of games · 7

Lasts 25′ or more60% wins54% of games · 15

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 Baron: 92% against 20%

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

First Baron 20% 92% +72

Rift Herald 42% 78% +36

First tower 40% 69% +29

First dragon 45% 59% +13

First blood 67% 47% −19

First Voidgrubs 67% 38% −28

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 control wards

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

Fewer solo kills a game1.4 against 2.2 · −38%

More control wards a game0.57 against 0.42 · +36%

Less damage to towers6348 against 8717 · −27%

Fewer multikills a game0.32 against 0.42 · −24%

More time spent dead7.5s against 6.6s a minute · +13%

About average: gold, minions, vision, share of team damage.

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 ~12:24

Item 2done ~21:12

Item 3done ~26:42

Item 4done ~32:30

Most common full builds

Essence Reaver › Black Cleaver › Boots of Swiftness › Spear of Shojin 100.0%4 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

Spear of Shojin 71%7

Black Cleaver 57%7

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 Potion53.3%15

Doran's Helm + Health Potion60.0%10

Cull + Health Potion33.3%3

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~14:0654.5%11

Gluttonous Greaves ~14:2462.5%8

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~14:3650.0%6

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport55.0%20

Exhaust + Flash75.0%4

Flash + Ghost33.3%3

Skills

Max

E52.4%21

Max

W57.1%7

Start

E54.5%22

Start

W60.0%5

Dies about as often as most top laners

Before 14 minutes Smolder dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.4). 37% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 38% for the average top laner. 58% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.4)

37%involve the enemy junglerabout average (38%)

42%outnumbered (2+ enemies)less than average (48%)

90%with no teammate nearmore than average (84%)

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 top lane

Ganks: 77% in your half of top lane. Collapses: 50% in your half of top lane. 1-v-1s: 68% in your half of top lane.

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 top laner

What kills Smolder

Kind of death

Smolder Average

Gank 37% (avg 38%)Collapse 6% (avg 9%)1-v-1 58% (avg 52%)

Who gets the kill

Smolder Average

Bot laner 0% (avg 2%)Jungler 24% (avg 24%)Support 3% (avg 3%)Mid laner 3% (avg 7%)Top laner 68% (avg 64%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Smolder Peak Average top laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

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

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Before 14 minutes: 1.1 kills per death in their half of top lane against 0.3 in your half of top lane. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Your half of top lane 0.3 K/D 14 / 50

Their half of top lane 1.1 K/D 16 / 14

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 16% of their team's dragon takes (average top laner 17%). The team wins 80% when Smolder is there and 69% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 18:00 (average 16:00). Top laners who get there by 14:00 win 50% against 50%; for Smolder it is 25% against 58%.

Smolder

What most Smolder players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First Baron: 92% against 20%

Fewer solo kills, more control wards

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 top laners

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of top lane

What kills Smolder

Ganks come at 3:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of top lane, loses them in your half of top lane

Where fights happen

Where fights happen