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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 25 Sept 2026
Smolder
The Fiery Fledgling
MarksmanMage
Patch 7.3 · Dragon · Ranked · Sample · No public API · 13,175 games · Sample data
Role snapshot (Dragon)
BTier
- Win Rate
- 54.1%
- Pick Rate
- 4.6%
- Ban Rate
- 0.7%
13,175
Games
Moderate
Confidence
Popular build
6,061 games54.5%Win Rate
Flash
HealReliable build
4,348 games53.2%Win Rate
Flash
IgniteHigh observed win rate
1,581 games56.6%Win Rate
Flash
BarrierRunes
Domination
Tyrant
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Smolder's most common path.
QSuper Scorcher Breath
WAchooo!
EFlap, Flap, Flap
RMmooommmm!
Max Order
EQW
Max E first, then Q, then W. Take R whenever available (5 / 9 / 13).
Level-up Order
- QSuper Scorcher Breath
- WAchooo!
- EFlap, Flap, Flap
- RMmooommmm!
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QSuper Scorcher Breath | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WAchooo! | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||
| EFlap, Flap, Flap | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||
| RMmooommmm! | R | R | R |
Matchup map (Dragon)
How Smolder performs against enemy dragon laners
Levels 1 – 15 · Sample40%60%Smolder's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard
Nobody in this lane sits here.
Conditional build matrix
Recommended items by enemy team composition
Sample · Patch 7.3
Core 1First major item
Core 2Second item
Core 3Third item
BootsBoot slot
SituationalPick as needed
Scaling — level 1–15
SmolderDragon average
1815
1815
1815
Counter plan — how to beat Smolder
Close the gap early — it wins at range and at three items — neither before eight 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 medium difficulty, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Ability details
PDragon Practice
Passive — never cast
- Q
Super Scorcher Breath
- W
Achooo!
- E
Flap, Flap, Flap
- R
Mmooommmm!
ARAM performance
S+
- Win Rate
- 53.8%
- ▲ 0.7%
- Pick Rate
- 7.8%
- ▲ 0.5%
- Ban Rate
- 3.0%
- ▼ 1.1%
Best ARAM build
Patch timeline
We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
- 7.3Live now-0.1
- 7.2eSample win rate across this patch-0.3
- 7.2Sample win rate across this patch-0.4
- 7.1hSample win rate across this patch+0.5
- 7.1Sample win rate across this patch+0.7
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Methodology
- Data window
- 286,420 games on patch 7.3, Ranked, No public API. Last refreshed 25 Sept 2026.
- Rank aggregation
- No rank split. A derived sample has no brackets to pool, so none is claimed — the rates are the same sample at every rank.
- 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, titles, classes, difficulty and ability names are read off Riot's official Wild Rift site. Lanes are this site's filing; items and runes are Wild Rift's patch 7.3 shop and rune tree. Every rate is a derived sample — Riot publishes no Wild Rift API, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.
Smolder on video
Published by League of Legends: Wild Rift on YouTube, 22 January 2026.
It plays in YouTube’s own player once you press play. Nothing is downloaded or re-hosted here, and nothing loads from YouTube until then.