Mid · 188 games

Mel

Mid · 49% of games Support · 8%Bot · 43%

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (49%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+147 gold).

Win rate: 45.2%; ±7.1 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: D; #72 of 81
Pick rate: 1.0%; ban 4.1%
Games: 188; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Mel mid wins 45.2% of 188 ranked games, rank 72 of 81 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 10:40 · 61% · 110 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 11:42 · 71% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 18:43 · 63% · 57 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 25:23 · 84% · 26 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 30:48 · 10 of 44 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Precision 27% of games · 51% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 98% of games · 45% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 82% of games · 45% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Radiant Volley first 98% of games · 45% wins Skill orders →

When Mel wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

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

Ends before 25′45% wins39% of games · 74

Lasts 25′ or more44% wins58% of games · 109

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: 77% against 28%

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

First Baron 28% 77% +49

First tower 23% 71% +48

Rift Herald 33% 68% +35

First dragon 35% 59% +25

First blood 34% 56% +21

First Voidgrubs 45% 45% +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 Mel plays

More control wards, more multikills

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

More control wards a game1.44 against 1.01 · +43%

More multikills a game0.98 against 0.74 · +32%

Fewer assists a game4.4 against 6.2 · −29%

Less damage to towers5987 against 6819 · −12%

More solo kills a game2.0 against 1.8 · +11%

About average: deaths, share of team damage, gold, 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 ~10:42

Item 2done ~18:42

Item 3done ~24:42

Item 4done ~30:00

Item 5done ~31:54

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 52.2%23 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 55.6%9 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass 62.5%8 games

Luden's Echo › Ionian Boots of Lucidity › Hextech Rocketbelt › Shadowflame 50.0%6 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Hextech Rocketbelt › Shadowflame 60.0%5 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass › Rabadon's Deathcap 25.0%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

Shadowflame 50%38

Hextech Rocketbelt 44%9

Rabadon's Deathcap 42%24

Stormsurge 40%5

Cryptbloom 29%7

Zhonya's Hourglass 17%6

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 Potion45.4%185

Boots + Refillable Potion100.0%1

Doran's Bow + Health Potion + Health Potion0.0%1

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~11:4243.3%134

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~10:1855.9%34

Mercury's Treads ~13:3050.0%8

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport45.5%154

Flash + Ghost33.3%18

Flash + Ignite33.3%6

Skills

Max

W45.4%185

Max

E33.3%3

Start

W44.1%136

Start

E52.4%21

Hard lanes

Watch out for Zoe

Easy lanes

Good into Syndra, Twisted Fate, Ahri

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 4 of 4, wins 2 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 (19)

Locke 38% · 8

Lux 43% · 7

Sylas 29% · 7

LeBlanc 14% · 7

Ekko 67% · 6

Aurora 40% · 5

Hwei 60% · 5

Yasuo 50% · 4

Yone 25% · 4

Xerath 25% · 4

Akali 50% · 4

Katarina 75% · 4

Viktor 50% · 4

Galio 0% · 3

Lissandra 67% · 3

Vex 67% · 3

Kassadin 67% · 3

Lucian 0% · 3

Irelia 67% · 3

Mel vs Twisted Fate · 22 games · Fair sample

Mel does better than expected here

45%winsexpected 40%

+335gold at 15′average +147

+13.2minions at 10′ahead or behind

14%in on first bloodsolo kills +1.55 a game

Gold lead against Twisted Fate Mel's average lead

Against Twisted Fate, Mel is ahead on gold at 15 minutes in 55% of games and wins 42% of those. When behind, Mel wins 50%.

Ahead at 15′42% wins12 games

Behind at 15′50% wins10 games

Full Mel vs Twisted Fate page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Mel games: Jhin

Enemy top Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier Nothing clear yet

Enemy jungle Trouble Nothing clear yet Easier

Qiyana60% · exp. 43% +1715 games

Kha'Zix53% · exp. 47% +615 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Jhin43% · exp. 47% −423 games

Easier

Yunara53% · exp. 46% +719 games

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). 58% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 50% for the average mid laner. 27% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.1deaths per game before 14′about average (2.2)

58%involve the enemy junglermore than average (50%)

73%outnumbered (2+ enemies)more than average (67%)

60%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 Mel dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of mid

Ganks: 35% in your half of mid. Collapses: 33% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 65% 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 58% (avg 50%)Collapse 15% (avg 17%)1-v-1 27% (avg 33%)

Who gets the kill

Mel Average

Bot laner 7% (avg 7%)Jungler 37% (avg 28%)Support 4% (avg 7%)Mid laner 46% (avg 54%)Top laner 5% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

Mel Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00, 7:00 and 9:00. 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 jungle, loses them in your half of mid

Before 14 minutes: 3.5 kills per death in their jungle against 0.4 in your half of mid. Overall 1.3 kills per death.

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 63 / 173

Their half of mid 2.7 K/D 166 / 61

The bot-side river 1.8 K/D 83 / 46

Your jungle 0.9 K/D 47 / 50

The top-side river 1.3 K/D 34 / 26

Their jungle 3.5 K/D 45 / 13

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 dragonsNo clear difference yetNear 30% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 27%). The team wins 65% when Mel is there and 69% when not.

Mel

What most Mel players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Zoe

First Baron: 77% against 28%

More control wards, 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

Watch out for Zoe

Good into Syndra, Twisted Fate, Ahri

Ahead at 15 against 4 of 4, wins 2 of them

Mel does better than expected here

Mel does worse than expected here

Mel does better than expected here

Mel does better than expected here

Enemies that cost Mel games: Jhin

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, 7:00 and 9:00, then every minute

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

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

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