Hi,

im not smolder main, i picked him up randomly in a normal game. Was a long 40 min. game vs Shen, Shyvana, Nautilus. So should be easy for me to melt them in lategame?

I had 425 Stacks, the "highest winrate" build: Essence Reaver, BC, Shojin, and so on. But people also say that this is a bait build but also for some reason the highest winrate. Im confused.

So my Q in lategame with 425 stacks, did legit only the 10% true damage (burn stack damage over 3 sec.) but that was a joke tbh. 10% damage of an target is nothing in lategame.

Meanwhile enemy Jinx was bombarding my team with every auto doing also 10%+ but with high speed, while I was hitting 3 Qs whole fight until my team died faster than theirs.

Im confused, at 425 stacks shouldnt smolder feel like a monster? his damage was a complete joke that fight, im confused.

Even when you put all 3 melees together , 10% each true damage is nothing in lategame compared to a jinx hitting multiple shots.

The only idea i have is: that this build is 10 times worse than a crit build or smolder is only good vs A team full of chogath, zac, mundo, and no enemy adc.

Hey there! I'm new on this champ so I'm looking for some advice to play it.

Let me explain what I really have questions about....

1. What's the best build and runes? I'm kassawin main too so I understand easily how to scale with smolder but would be really helpful to know between grasp and DFT which one is the best rune on smolder? If it depends on the matchup let me know that, please

2. Where does he damage come from? Yeah I know he scales well but for example when I was learning Kass, I believe if someone tell me for example "your first power spike is at first item against mages" "when you get lvl 6 start playing more risky don't worry about your damage believe me you probably have enough to deal 30% of health even if you are a late game champ" this kind of things that casual smolder player doesn't know.

3. Some hidden mechanics I should know, tips and tricks, for example idk "Kass has R flash combo", "AA+Q" these stuffs.

I'm new to Smolder and in general I was always bad at itemization (never paid it much attention).
So my question is why would I go either Hubris or ER first item? which cases would make which one better?

Other advice about Smolder builds in general are welcome.

Scored another penta. Eve was trying to kill me all game. Lost with 2 people feeding and top lane ff spamming

https://reddit.com/link/1v2krzc/video/6dlky14wileh1/player

What do you think needs to be changed in Smolder to make him a better champion?
By better, I mean being able to deal with ranged/poke champions better. He struggles heavily with getting poked down by mages and standard ADC range, and he also struggles when all-in champions jump on him.
1. What would you change in his Passive?
2. What about his Q?
3. What about his W?
4. What about his E?
5. What about his R?
6. What base stats does he need?
My answers:
1. Passive: Add a new stack tier at 325 or 335 stacks that shreds enemy armor. Also, buff the 125-stack threshold: the current spray-AOE upgrade feels too lackluster for a 100-stack investment, so it should also grant increased Q cast range to help him safely deal with poke.
2. Q: Killing a cannon minion should grant 2 stacks instead of 1. Additionally, securing Dragon or Baron should reward him with passive stacks so it feels rewarding to help the team instead of just staying in a side lane farming. Lastly, executing an enemy champion with an ability should grant double stacks (since you hit and executed them).
3. W: No major changes.
4. E: The cooldown needs to be slightly decreased so he can escape all-ins more frequently, and the bolts should be able to crit.
5. R: It shouldn't scale with Smolder's AD or AP at all, and it shouldn't give him passive stacks. Lore-wise, it's his mom doing the work, not him! Instead, give it massive flat, high base damage in the early game that tapers off late game because it doesn't scale.
6. Base Stats: Increase his base Magic Resist (MR) so that long-range poke mages can't bully him out of lane as easily

https://reddit.com/link/1uzxrek/video/156s9du230eh1/player

Using the charizard Y custom skin to hold me over while smolder eventually gets more skins. I recommend it. One game i got the 1 percent shiny feature.

Genuine question, is it even possible to get out of emerald with this champ? I have over 500 matches on him and he is by far my favorite champ and some of the most fun I've ever had in league.

The second I hit emerald 2 I'm matched with a mage support and a powerfarming jungler.

I see the same pattern over and over, fights deep in the enemy jungle that give a massive gold advantage, the team doing anything in their power to steal waves and deny me the 225 stacks before the 3rd dragon fight. Is there anything that I can do besides maybe queueing up with a duo jungler? Duo with a sup would be out of the question as that would put me against duo mid/JG on the enemy team.

I've heard the advice before that I should be following even bad calls and fight with the team but this feels like a complete coin flip that can put me behind for the entire game.

I tend to play pretty safe, especially in bad matchups. And I get 225 at around 21/23 minutes I'm average matches and 25 in losing matchups.

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

Really enjoying Hexoptics rush

Guys smolder is actually so fun to play, I’ve just been building full crit smolder and gahhh damnnnn it hits so hard lol

Only thing to do now is learn better ways to stack quicker so if anyone has any tips of stacking the passive pls lmk :)

How long do you think it will be? Which one will come before the other? What kind of legendary?

Personally Spirit Blossom Smolder would kinda go hard. Smolder and his mom are the last of their spirit kind.

probably it only work on low rank but dam smolder is really fun to use once he got 225 stack

Omg im in LOVE with deaths dance these days on smol. It makes him SUPER tanky while still providing nice stats, a must have item against ad assasins or just great to have it overal. Im spamming this in al my games these days oml LOVE ITTTT

Hey everyone I’m new to smolder and have only started playing him a day ago. I was playing with the DFT build to start off but for some reason it feels weak even though I stack a lot. Is DFT th way to go with smolder or can I use a different rune? And is my build a good all round build:

ER > CDR boots > Shojin/Cleaver > RFC > GA/IE

Hi,

I'm mastery 100+ on both Thresh and Smolder and want an experienced Smolder OTP (or at least high mastery, let's say 50+) to duo with for serious play, maybe ~3 games/day on average. I am excellent with Thresh and know exactly what Smolder needs - well over 1,000 games on both champions. Around gold/plat rank please (I'm G2 and P4 on my two accounts).

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Item has great build path, cheap and lets you to oneshot casters with one Q. Or is it something wrong with it? Mana and AH can be fixed with runes.

What is the best build after the nerfs?

Just a silly doodle before moving on to something more serious

Hello everyone! I hope you guys are all having a wonderful day <3 Today i've decided that I want to be a smolder based personality on medias such as twitch/youtube/instagram/tiktok! :) and I thought it'd be best to hear from you guys! The awesome community that keeps smolder going... (even though he's a tickle monster now) So.. if anyone has any suggestions, tips/tricks as in what you want to see to put into my youtube/twitch) Please let me know I'd really appreciate it! :) Have a great day guys!