Mid · 58 games · NA

Mel

Mid · 44% of games Bot · 45%

On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+193 gold).

Win rate: 50.0%; ±12.9 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #37 of 70
Pick rate: 0.9%; ban 5.0%
Games: 58; ranked solo/duo

Mel mid wins 50.0% of 58 ranked games in NA, rank 37 of 70 mid champions (tier B). 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 10:39 · 72% · 41 games

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes 11:42 · 76% of games

Item 2

Shadowflame 18:51 · 82% · 27 games

Item 3

Rabadon's Deathcap 26:12 · 81% · 13 games

Item 4 · late game

Void Staff 30:48 · 4 of 14 games

Runes

Arcane Comet · Sorcery + Precision 34% of games · 55% wins All runes →

Start

Doran's Ring + Health Potion 100% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Teleport 90% of games · 52% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Radiant Volley first 100% of games · 50% 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′50% wins31% of games · 18

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins69% of games · 40

Lanes

No clear counters yet

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

What wins Mel games

First tower: 76% against 16%

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

First tower 16% 76% +60

First Baron 26% 83% +57

Rift Herald 40% 72% +32

First dragon 39% 64% +25

First blood 42% 60% +18

First Voidgrubs 48% 52% +3

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 game1.22 against 0.64 · +91%

More multikills a game0.95 against 0.77 · +23%

Fewer assists a game4.8 against 6.2 · −23%

More solo kills a game2.1 against 1.8 · +15%

Less kill participation40% against 45% · −10%

About average: gold, vision, time spent dead, share of team damage, deaths, damage to towers, 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 ~10:36

Item 2done ~19:12

Item 3done ~25:42

Item 4done ~31:24

Most common full builds

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 53.8%13 games

Luden's Echo › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Zhonya's Hourglass › Rabadon's Deathcap 0.0%3 games

Blackfire Torch › Sorcerer's Shoes › Shadowflame › Rabadon's Deathcap 0.0%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

Shadowflame 59%17

Rabadon's Deathcap 40%10

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 Potion50.0%58

Boots

Sorcerer's Shoes ~11:4247.7%44

Ionian Boots of Lucidity ~11:4871.4%7

Mercury's Treads ~13:4840.0%5

Summoner spells

Flash + Teleport51.9%52

Flash + Ghost33.3%3

Cleanse + Flash100.0%1

Skills

Max

W50.0%58

Start

W47.2%53

Start

E75.0%4

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

Before 14 minutes Mel dies 2.0 times a game (average 2.2). 53% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 49% for the average mid laner. 34% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.0deaths per game before 14′less than average (2.2)

53%involve the enemy junglermore than average (49%)

66%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (66%)

58%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: 30% in your half of mid. Collapses: 40% in your half of mid. 1-v-1s: 68% 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 53% (avg 49%)Collapse 13% (avg 18%)1-v-1 34% (avg 34%)

Who gets the kill

Mel Average

Bot laner 5% (avg 7%)Jungler 32% (avg 27%)Support 5% (avg 7%)Mid laner 54% (avg 54%)Top laner 3% (avg 5%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, then every minute

Mel Peak Average mid laner

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Ward the river before 3:00. 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: 2.6 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.4 in your half of mid. Overall 1.3 kills per death.

Their half of mid 2.6 K/D 54 / 21

Your half of mid 0.4 K/D 20 / 51

The bot-side river 1.8 K/D 23 / 13

Your jungle 1.2 K/D 15 / 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 26% of their team's dragon takes (average mid laner 29%). The team wins 79% when Mel is there and 74% when not.

Mel

What most Mel players run

Win rate by game length

No clear counters yet

First tower: 76% against 16%

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

No clearly hard lane yet

No clearly easy lane yet

Not enough games yet

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, 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 mid

Where fights happen