Mid · 60 games · KR

Mel

Mid · 58% of games Bot · 33%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+15 gold).

Win rate: 36.7%; ±12.2 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #59 of 64
Pick rate: 0.9%; ban 1.5%
Games: 60; ranked solo/duo

Mel mid wins 36.7% of 60 ranked games in KR, rank 59 of 64 mid champions (tier D). Most players finish Luden's Echo first, at about 10:36.

The build at a glance

What most Mel 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

Luden's Echo 10:37 · 57% · 33 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 11:48 · 60% of games

Item 2

Hextech Rocketbelt 17:34 · 62% · 13 games

Item 3 · late game

Shadowflame 23:30 · 11 of 32 games

Item 4 · late game

Zhonya's Hourglass 29:24 · 4 of 11 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Precision 15% of games · 44% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 37% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 85% of games · 35% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Radiant Volley first 98% of games · 37% wins Skill orders →

When Mel 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′34% wins48% of games · 29

Lasts 25′ or more28% wins42% of games · 25

Lanes

Watch out for Zoe

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

What wins Mel games

First Baron: 75% against 23%

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

First Baron 23% 75% +52

First tower 23% 65% +43

Rift Herald 26% 65% +39

First blood 17% 49% +31

First dragon 29% 48% +19

First Voidgrubs 31% 46% +15

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 Mel plays

More control wards, fewer assists

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

More control wards a game2.45 against 1.73 · +42%

Fewer assists a game4.4 against 6.1 · −28%

Less damage to towers4772 against 6333 · −25%

More time spent dead6.3s against 5.6s a minute · +13%

More vision a minute0.95 against 0.85 · +12%

About average: share of team damage, kill participation, damage, gold.

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 ~10:36

Item 2done ~18:42

Item 3done ~24:36

Item 4done ~29:18

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Hextech Rocketbelt › Shadowflame 60.0%5 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Hextech Rocketbelt › Shadowflame 50.0%4 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 75.0%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

Not enough games against this kind of team yet.

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 Ring + Health Potion + Health Potion36.7%60

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~11:4836.1%36

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:0637.5%16

Boots of Swiftness ~6:1233.3%3

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport35.3%51

Flash + Ghost28.6%7

Exhaust + Flash100.0%1

Skills

Max

W37.3%59

Max

E0.0%1

Start

W39.5%38

Start

W30.0%10

Hard lanes

Watch out for Zoe

Easy lanes

Good into Twisted Fate

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 0 of them

Expected: what Mel's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (2)

Ahri 80% · 5

Syndra 75% · 4

Mel vs Twisted Fate · 16 games · Early read

Mel does better than expected here

38%winsexpected 31%

+135gold at 15′average +15

+11.4minions at 10′ahead or behind

13%in on first bloodsolo kills +1.50 a game

Gold lead against Twisted Fate Mel's average lead

Against Twisted Fate, Mel is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 50% of games and wins 25% of those. When behind, Mel wins 50%.

Ahead at 15′25% wins8 games

Behind at 15′50% wins8 games

Full Mel vs Twisted Fate page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy bot Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy support Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

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

Before 14 minutes Mel dies 2.1 times a game (average 2.2). 66% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 52% for the average mid laner. 18% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

66%involve the enemy junglermore than average (52%)

82%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (68%)

55%with no teammate nearless than 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 Mel dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 38% in your half of mid. Collapses: 30% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 52% 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 Mel

Kind of death

Mel Average

Gank 66% (avg 52%)Collapse 16% (avg 16%)1-v-1 18% (avg 32%)

Who gets the kill

Mel Average

Bot laner 9% (avg 7%)Jungler 38% (avg 29%)Support 5% (avg 6%)Mid laner 42% (avg 52%)Top laner 6% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Mel Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00 and 6:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

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

Where Mel wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 3.1 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.3 in your half of mid. Overall 1.4 kills per death.

Their half of mid 3.1 K/D 49 / 16

Your half of mid 0.3 K/D 15 / 49

The bot-side river 1.2 K/D 21 / 18

Your jungle 1.2 K/D 19 / 16

Your half of bot lane 2.3 K/D 16 / 7

Their half of bot lane 21.0 K/D 21 / 1

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

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 30% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 26%). The team wins 50% when Mel is there and 61% when not.

Mel

What most Mel players run

Win rate by game length

Watch out for Zoe

First Baron: 75% against 23%

More control wards, fewer assists

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

Watch out for Zoe

Good into Twisted Fate

Ahead at 15 against 2 of 2, wins 0 of them

Mel does better than expected here

Mel does worse than expected here

Enemies: nothing clear yet

Teammates that change Mel'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 Mel

Ganks come at 3:00 and 6:00–10:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of mid

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your half of bot lane

Where fights happen