Smolder Build Guides, Runes, Items, and Abilities - Patch 14.12
Smolder The Fiery Fledgling
Find the best Smolder build guides for League of Legends S14 Patch 14.12. The MOBAFire community works hard to keep their LoL builds and guides updated, and will help you craft the best Smolder build for the S14 meta. Learn more about Smolder's abilities, skins, or even ask your own questions to the community!
[ NEW SEASON 14 THE ULTIMATE SMOLDER GUIDE! THE LITTLE DRAGON WITH BIG DAMAGE! 🐲 ]
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BEST SMOLDER BUILD
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188 Basic Ability Haste
KABOOOM SMOLDER!!!
Smolder Build & Runes
If you're looking for the best rune build for Smolder we've got you covered. Below you can find the best items and runes to build for Smolder, as determined by calculations of thousands of Plat+ League of Legends games. If you are already familiar with how to play Smolder this is a great resource to quickly get a good rune selection for Patch 14.12. However, if you are a new Smolder player we highly recommend reading through some of the guides above to learn why this build is strong on Smolder!
Smolder's Runes
Second Best
48%Win Rate 24% Pickrate
Third Best
45%Win Rate 7% Pickrate
Smolder's Summoner Spells
Smolder's Starters
Smolder's Core Items
Boots
Smolder's Luxury Items
Smolder's Ability Order
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
49%Win Rate 12% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
51%Win Rate 3% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Smolder's Runes
Second Best
48%Win Rate 26% Pickrate
Third Best
50%Win Rate 12% Pickrate
Smolder's Summoner Spells
Smolder's Starters
Smolder's Core Items
Boots
Smolder's Luxury Items
Smolder's Ability Order
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
42%Win Rate 10% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
49%Win Rate 4% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Smolder's Runes
Second Best
50%Win Rate 32% Pickrate
Third Best
46%Win Rate 11% Pickrate
Smolder's Summoner Spells
Smolder's Starters
Smolder's Core Items
Boots
Smolder's Luxury Items
Smolder's Ability Order
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Second Best
47%Win Rate 6% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Third Best
52%Win Rate 5% Pickrate
Dragon Practice (PASSIVE)
Passive Ability
Smolder Counters
Learn Smolder's counters and discover matchups where they have an advantage! When you're starting a game of League of Legends you should always keep in mind if you'll be at an advantage or disadvantage against your opponent, so you can know whether to bully them or play safe. You can find detailed breakdowns of each matchup on CounterStats, and you can also check out some Smolder guides to see how to build and play against other champions you may find yourself up against!
This counter data is for Smolder ADC in Plat+ games. The percent shown is the enemy champion's counter rating against Smolder. Counter rating is our own statistic that factors in counter kills, overall kills, early lead ratio, comeback ratio, and win percent to give the whole picture of that champion's effectiveness as a counter pick.
Best Against Smolder
Worst Against Smolder
Smolder Skins
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Smolder's Abilities
Stacks increase the damage of Smolder's basic abilities:
- Super Scorcher Breath: Deal an additional 40-70% magic damage.
- Achooo!: Explosions deal an additional 55% magic damage.
- Flap, Flap, Flap: Increase total damage by 20% magic damage.
Depending on stacks of Dragon Practice, this ability evolves to gain the following effects:
- 25 Stacks: Damages all enemies surrounding the target.
- 125 Stacks: Sends 1 (+1 per 67 Dragon Practice stacks) explosions beyond the target that deal 75% of this ability's damage.
- 225 Stacks: Burns the target, dealing +2% bonus AD (+1% of ability power) (+0.8% of Dragon Practice Stacks) max health true damage over 3 seconds. Enemy champions that drop below 6.5% total health while burning are killed instantly.
While flying, Smolder attacks the lowest health enemy 5 (+1 per 50 Dragon Practice Stacks) times for 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 (+0.1 per attack damage) physical damage each.
Smolder's mom heals her son for 100 / 135 / 170 (+75% of ability power) (+0.5 per bonus attack damage) health if she hits him.