By GamGem ResearchLast updated 20 Aug 2026 · 00:00
Smolder
the Fiery Fledgling
MarksmanMage
League of LegendsPatch 26.16BotRanked Solo/DuoEmerald+NA6,148 gamesSample data
Role snapshot (Bot)
- 48.3%
- Win Rate
- 1.2%
- Pick Rate
- 7.8%
- Ban Rate
6,148
Games
Low
Confidence
Matchup map (Bot) — level 1–18
Conditional build matrix
| vs AP Burst | vs AD Assassins | vs Tanks | vs Sustain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mythic / Core |   |   |   |   |
| Core 2 | |   |   |   |
| Core 3 |   |  |   |  |
| Boots |  |  |  |  |
| Situational |   |  |  |  |
Popular build
2,828 games48.7%Win Rate
Flash
IgniteReliable build
2,029 games47.4%Win Rate
Flash
TeleportHigh observed win rate
738 games50.8%Win Rate
Flash
ExhaustRunes
Primary: Inspiration
Unsealed Spellbook
Hextech Flashtraption
Biscuit Delivery
Approach Velocity
Secondary: Domination
Taste of Blood
Deep Ward
Shards
+9 Adaptive Force
+9 Adaptive Force
+10-180 Health (based on level)
Skill order
| Q | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| E | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| R | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
Ability details
Dragon Practice
Hitting champions with Abilities and killing enemies with Super Scorcher Breath grants a stack of Dragon Practice. Stacks increase the damage of Smolders basic Abilities.
Passive — never cast
Super Scorcher Breath
Smolder breathes fire on an enemy. As he gains more stacks, this ability becomes more powerful.
Cost 25 ManaCooldown 5.5/5/4.5/4/3.5sRange 550
Achooo!
Smolder lets out an adorable flaming sneeze that explodes when hitting enemy champions.
Cost 50/55/60/65/70 ManaCooldown 14/13/12/11/10sRange 1500
Flap, Flap, Flap
Smolder takes flight ignoring terrain and bombarding the lowest health enemy.
Cost 65 ManaCooldown 24/22/20/18/16sRange 700
MMOOOMMMM!
Smolder calls his mom to breath fire from above, dealing extra damage and slowing enemies in the center of her fire.
Cost 100 ManaCooldown 120/110/100sRange 4200
Scaling — level 1–18
SmolderBot average
1918
1918
1918
Counter plan — how to beat Smolder
Close the gap early — it wins at range and at three items — neither before ten minutes
Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip
Punish the cooldown — Smolder is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 6/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
ARAM performance
- 51.0%
- Win Rate ▲ 1.2%
- 5.5%
- Pick Rate ▼ 0.9%
- 2.3%
- Ban Rate ▲ 1.0%
- Damage dealt
- 91.9%
- Damage taken
- 93.0%
- Healing
- 88.0%
- Shielding
- 101.5%
- Ability Haste
- +18
Best ARAM build
Patch timeline
We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
- 26.16Live now+0.7
- 26.14Sample win rate across this patch+0.2
- 26.11Sample win rate across this patch-0.3
- 26.08Sample win rate across this patch-0.4
- 26.05Sample win rate across this patch+0.1
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Methodology
- Data window
- 512,340 games on patch 26.16, Ranked Solo/Duo, NA. Last refreshed 20 Aug 2026.
- Rank aggregation
- Emerald+ and above, pooled. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
- Role assignment
- A champion is filed under the lanes it actually plays, not the one class it belongs to — which is why several appear in two.
- Counters
- A matchup, not a tier gap: how this champion does into that one specifically, over that pairing’s own games.
- Minimum sample
- The confidence indicator beside every rate is driven by how much of the window this champion appears in. A low reading means read the figure loosely, not that it is wrong.
- Why a build is not a cause
- The best-scoring build is the one the best-placed players happened to take. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying those items caused the wins.
- Where the numbers come from
- Names, classes, lanes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates are derived samples — Riot publishes none of them, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.