After introducing it on the Korean server yesterday, many Pros and Challenger players are using it. Since the summoner spells are crucial, Cosmic Insight can be a good alternative to Magical Footwear. You can also go mid lane with this build. www.deeplol.gg/summoner/kr/Deft-8366 www.deeplol.gg/summoner/KR/Viper-G170
I KNEW IT! comet seemed so good on him because he looked like more of a caster than a real adc! Especially with his AA lockouts. Leveraging his strong scaling to go all in on early game runes and bully bot laners just made sense
I just played a game few minutes ago, that i playing tf against this smolder on midlane, with same build and runes. Is so Strong, i cannot dodge his W because of my range, i got bullied. It's a strong pick that i'll play tomorrow.
@@party-m8 But unlike most casting adcs, Smolder has absolutely no abilities in his kit that change his autos, such as Lucians passive, MF's W, Ezreals Passive/E, or Jhins passive. He's kind of the only casting ADC like this as well.
Same with being able to build him Bruiser/Off-Tank. The hybrid scaling and ramping damage means he can abuse items like Shojin and Titanic really easily.
It's funny how this always happen whenever they give the ADC a good long range poke that also hit the entire wave, serving as a strong wave clear that bypass any early game weaknesses. A lot of Smolder kit has the same playstyle as Kog'maw so it also has the same oversight lmao.
@@Kayrapt i am not playing this shitty game for years now, high elo has the same amount of inting pigs sadly. Game is simply not fun unless you have 5 man premade
Yep, personally I labbed out that you just accept that this isn't a champ that exists before 225 stacks. Going DRing start, Triforce/ER into Shojin, then Black Cleaver puts your CDs as low as Navori anyway, makes you bulkier to account for the fact that your range is so low, and you just bait fights. Once you hit lategame, the bulk helps you apply burn and stay alive. I think the regular build works well on pros who farm better on average and spike earlier, but for average players who have trouble playing around Smolder's weaknesses and farm less efficiently due to their own mistakes and team macro, it's way easier to use a bruiser build.
It already is. And everyone is sucking ass with this simple and straighforward champion. He just can't win a fair fight against most ADCs and it is showing.
i thought this champ is shit but it have actally good lane phase according to video, so why the hell all my low elo idiots cant just spam w @@leoleo1035
It’s never just “strong,” it’s overpowered. And it can’t just be overpowered, it has to be a secret. And it can’t just be a secret, it has to be in the god damn thumbnail.
@lolnoob5015 it's a commentary on social media/videos and "hype" at least that is how I took it. Annoyingly buzzword and hyperbolic language to draw attention basically
@@Braxtonkaiit is his Job to get Attention in Videos he pays his Bills with it. Ofc he tries to get clicks and the Videos are high quality so where is the Problem?
Hi Dobby. I'm getting back into league and your videos are the best. I unknowingly was watching your videos on LoL analyst and I'm glad I found the real person behind the videos. Thanks man.
If you want to play Smolder with more of a traditional ADC bulid, you can take either PTA or Fleet, and rush Stormrazor-CDR boots-Navori instead or ER. Your early game is basically all abt farming and harrasing with W-Q, so you can try putting 3 points into W like Dobby's reccomending here, and Stormrazor + W makes your unavoidable harras strong enough to either net you early kill or two, or the platings, and translates into really solid mid-game with strong burst and AOE dmg. It seems like Smolder's bulids are flexible enough to enable different playstyles, kinda like Ezreal and Kog
@@sauvagess ER is not necessary if you take POM and/or Bisquits, and after 25 stacks you can shove waves with W-Q easily, which then gives u a free back. And if you build Stormrazor 1st, ur Q with it's proc hurts quite a lot so you can use less spells in lane and still harras ur opponent's out, esp since Stormrazor's damage is also applied on the Q explosion, while Sheen only applies to the primary target, meaning that Stormrazor also allows you to one-shot casters when they're grouped up. I've been playing Smolder with this setup since his release and had no mana issues, since I could conserve my mana more and still burn enemy hp bars and shove in when needed.
@@sauvagess that's the point of the Stormrazor bulid, you don't bulid ER at all bcs you don't need the mana, and if you really want the Sheen proc, you can go Trinity after your Stormrazor-Navori-LDR core. Ofc LDR vs squishier teams is a waste, in which case you can go either Trinity, Collector (which is not the best option bcs of Smolder's built in late game execute on Q), RFC, BT, Maw or Shieldbow, or anything you need depending on the situation.
@@mattphyx It's still less efficient than stormrazor if you're already going Fleet. By the time stormrazor would outperform ER, which is about 4 items in, you'd already be building stormrazor as a 5th item anyway. Additionally, PoM does nothing if you can't hit anybody in lane, as people are already picking long-range high mobility options like Ezreal and Karma, so you'll have to back off and recall for mana due to no regen in the face of hard pushing, while ER will keep you topped off at all times and make it much easier to stack with your Q.
That's basically Smolder's win condition. If teams are somewhat equal it's gg. Also it could very well be a staged game to promote yet another bullshit meme build.
@@TheJimCarry no not really, this build and play style works very well. Banning your own teammates is just griefing and stupid as shit. If you want to be an imbecile go for it.
I had this on the enemy team yesterday, it was honestly very strong and felt even busted at times. Made me wanna try it myself. Still won against it but he heavily missplayed a bunch and our team was winning on the other sides aswell
wow this really helped me better use smolder. been trying him on Quickplay but always get dominated by other lane but with this build I was ahead for the fist timne haha Altough didnt win the game it made me better at laning phase. Thank you for this!!!!
Hey Dobby, what do you think of triple tonic over boots? I think it's a cool rune that let's you still get Q level 5 at 9 after doing 3 points W because of elixir of skill
You aren't suppose to be wave clearing with W. The 3 points into W is for harass and softening the wave for your Q. If you're clearing the waves themselves with W, then you're just playing wrong and making it take longer to reach 225.
I waited for this vid. Yesterday i searched for 'loldobby smolder'. I played it and wondered how the hell is it supposed to be built with the ap ratios and physical damage. It felt so weak and 225 stacks take up to 20-30 minutes. Sometimes at that point the game is lost already. I wondered also to build a tank with the true dmg later on
@@Kyle-nm1kh He really isnt, his AA/Q range is too short/average every single other adc at the same range will always dumpster him until 225, and at that point its so late into th game that he'll still probably die to them before killing them, he does become really good vs melees at that point though (or anything that has lower range than his Q).
Funny this video comes out a day after I was talking to a friend of mine about this very thing. I said if they remembered how Lucian players use to put several points in W for the poke because the base damage was so high (before they nerfed it) and said that Smolder's W was looking really, really similar if you start Doran's Ring and get Comet.
Im doing him bruiser top with either fleetfoot work for ms + kiting or first strike for poke + gold and free stacking depending on match up, the only goal is to be a ranged top so poke melee tops for free stack and later on abuse the 225 stacks mark. I dont have any mana problems as long as i have presence of mind and dorans ring so i dont build any mana items and rush titanic hidra first for q + active for instant wave clear and stack (hidra kill with q also counts for stacking passive)
Remember when SIon could do the same with his E thanks to having the hitbox bugged? I can see a nerf coming to the little lizard. On the other hand, I kinda of feel that you can pick AP items once you have Navori and essence reaver. Probably just a liandry to have double the burn
omg what did i say, this lil guy is a mage in disguise. my friends said i was wrong to build ap (and i guess i kinda was wrong to go full AP) but the W damage goes hard and R heal scaling with AP has saved me more times than I'd like to admit
It just works, poke is nice and you are safe. I was running Fleet for sustain and survivability, but this actually makes you a threat and you don't have to take Precision secondary that aren't that good for you anyways
spamming smolder after release, the thing that make this little dragon op is you can full clear wave on min 6 mark after you reaching 25 stack ( which is kinda stupid), kinda hope they tuning up the number early on
Honestly haven't had any problems early game because of PTA but that may be because he's genuinely much better mid than bot. Level 1 you can just wait on enemy to use their ability then just force them out because Q procs PTA. Additionally if you're gonna play smolder bot you want mostly a poke support or engage support because you need those stacks and can't afford letting support take some cs for their item quest
its nice too since you can stack with W hitting champs, at first i was trying titanic hydra for the q cleave stacks but the build seemed messy. poke and stack after w feels the best forsure
Build makes sense, glad someone is finally teaching players to go dorans ring, but isn't Smolder's lategame still pretty underwhelming when you make it there? The execute is indeed amazing, but aside from that, Smolder lacks high dps or range, and the ult never feels as impactful as it should be for teamfights.
I was almost in that build already while testing it, w does so much damage lvl1 and give 2 stacks if you hit both, and manamune is not that good, you only need mana early game and essence already gives that for mid late, plus crit rush is so good for him. Gonna try comet but this looks so close to what I was coming into
On my games on him I didn't struggle much early, rather it's the mid-game that's painful, when you are trying to reach 225 stacks. I actually prefer to go AP on him whenever possible, it feels a lot more consistent. Liandry's and Lich Bane are the two core items (Seraph's is also pretty good), then you can pivot into a low-AP utility build with items like RFC, Rylai's and Cosmic Drive, or more AP with Rabadon's and Zhonya's. The main downside of going AP is that you'll deal about 50% magic damage so neither Void Staff or LDR are good.
isnt min 22 kinda late for evolved q? Maybe its bc I play him top and in emerald, but pre 20 is definitly possible. He is like the better gp with lower skill ceiling imo
Comet, huh? I've just been using Fleet Footwork with the same skill order and been doing fine, holding a 82% win rate. All of my losses have been people trolling in champ select and flaming before 15 seconds into the game.
If this champ was a mid laner adcs would cry. Imagine veigar could fly but was also a million times easier and could build lifesteal. Easiest champ maybe in the entire game
Seeing this videos makes you think if a similar kind of strategy would work on a champion like kog. If you think about it smolder's w is very similar to kog's e. Maybe with minor changed such as taking lethal insted of comet this could work for kog, since you dont really wanna win lane with him but aim for even.
I still feel he is weak while fighting with others strong ADC since you rely on skills than AA. Maybe can adjust his E for longer time and let us cast any spells as well without ending the E. And there's no animation on casting ability while on E. Reset after killing could be nice but it will be overpowered
I don't like essence reaver, navori. I'm more of a manamura, kracken slayer, IE kinda guy. The damage is more or less the same with the build here but once you get IE shit starts blowing up
sleep doesn't come off after smolder dealing damage with e 6:49 a bit over powered if you ask me, can go through walls, hit invisible enemies gives him too much safety, overall, a bit unfair to play against.
As cool as this is I do want to remind people this: This build more than likely works better specifically for higher elo players due to less mistakes, more precise need for certain things among the champion pool. Strictly speaking, I doubt this build will be game changing for lower elo games considering the higher mistake margin.
After introducing it on the Korean server yesterday, many Pros and Challenger players are using it.
Since the summoner spells are crucial, Cosmic Insight can be a good alternative to Magical Footwear.
You can also go mid lane with this build.
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ALWAYS focus the Adc is the worst advice ever and I honestly cant believe we still say it. Stop pretending thats all it takes to win lane
I KNEW IT! comet seemed so good on him because he looked like more of a caster than a real adc! Especially with his AA lockouts. Leveraging his strong scaling to go all in on early game runes and bully bot laners just made sense
I just played a game few minutes ago, that i playing tf against this smolder on midlane, with same build and runes. Is so Strong, i cannot dodge his W because of my range, i got bullied. It's a strong pick that i'll play tomorrow.
well yeah any ability with a slow can use comet well
Sure, even rioters didn't know how to build him cuz they are fking low gold )
well yea, his meant to be a casting adc
@@party-m8 But unlike most casting adcs, Smolder has absolutely no abilities in his kit that change his autos, such as Lucians passive, MF's W, Ezreals Passive/E, or Jhins passive. He's kind of the only casting ADC like this as well.
I gave it a try. It actually worked and is very good. I even went for triple tonic to take it a step further and holy cow it's good.,
5:16 what if my mom never picks up?
she was with me im sorry
it's only a matter of time before she ends up on the internet
WAIT A MINUTE- THIS IS JUST THE OLD KOGMAW 3 POINTS E DORAN RING BUILD
Same with being able to build him Bruiser/Off-Tank. The hybrid scaling and ramping damage means he can abuse items like Shojin and Titanic really easily.
It's funny how this always happen whenever they give the ADC a good long range poke that also hit the entire wave, serving as a strong wave clear that bypass any early game weaknesses. A lot of Smolder kit has the same playstyle as Kog'maw so it also has the same oversight lmao.
I mean, Smolder's W is basically just Kog'maws E, but without the trail lol
It's the old W ezreal too that everyone maxed because undodgeable !
@@Hey_Im_JJtitanic not even good on smolder it makes him lose stacks stop yappin
I tried and it worked. So much easier early game, even when I played vs Caitlyn and Lux duo bot. Thanks a lot, LoLDobby!
bronze stories
@@MegaChickenPunch bronze was a better place. the more you rise, the more you realize.
@@Kayrapt i am not playing this shitty game for years now, high elo has the same amount of inting pigs sadly. Game is simply not fun unless you have 5 man premade
@@MegaChickenPunch why tf you are still looking for a strategy video of newly released champion for its weak early laning phase then?
@@darklurkerirl6101 because i am edging
I know it might sound a little troll, but i found him really nice building bruiser lol
Yep, personally I labbed out that you just accept that this isn't a champ that exists before 225 stacks. Going DRing start, Triforce/ER into Shojin, then Black Cleaver puts your CDs as low as Navori anyway, makes you bulkier to account for the fact that your range is so low, and you just bait fights. Once you hit lategame, the bulk helps you apply burn and stay alive.
I think the regular build works well on pros who farm better on average and spike earlier, but for average players who have trouble playing around Smolder's weaknesses and farm less efficiently due to their own mistakes and team macro, it's way easier to use a bruiser build.
Shojin is so good on him
@@HitoriRavenn gonna try this; do you prefer triforce or essence reaver? triforce seems shit in general this season
@@eebbaa5560can't see him without mana item...
@@HitoriRavenn I kinda wanna try the new hp item that makes you bigger with more hp, just to roleplay him growing up lmao
wait until people find out you can build him tank and burn their whole team with Q and liandries and deal free damage to squishies
True i guess, he completely independent from build, his damage is q burn and rune :D
ive been thinking "crit makes no sense on him" liandries sounds so good
@@kaelen9906huh? How does crit make no sense? He literally has crit ratios
@@swiftwithoutnumbersthe crit ratio doesnt help much, i think
He'll be dogshit before 225 stacks that way so it's kinda balance.
rip ranked games, its gonna be this everygame
It already is. And everyone is sucking ass with this simple and straighforward champion. He just can't win a fair fight against most ADCs and it is showing.
you must be gold @@leoleo1035
As if most people watch these videos
i thought this champ is shit but it have actally good lane phase according to video, so why the hell all my low elo idiots cant just spam w @@leoleo1035
He needs a strong peel like milio to workout. Without he is just like every other ADC.
OMG I heard people talking about how smolder is weak in the early game, but the video completely solves that problem. Amazing!
It’s never just “strong,” it’s overpowered. And it can’t just be overpowered, it has to be a secret. And it can’t just be a secret, it has to be in the god damn thumbnail.
I feel this comment
I mean, I’ve never heard of any of this? So I guess it’s a secret
@lolnoob5015 it's a commentary on social media/videos and "hype" at least that is how I took it.
Annoyingly buzzword and hyperbolic language to draw attention basically
Blame how YT algorithm works.
@@Braxtonkaiit is his Job to get Attention in Videos he pays his Bills with it. Ofc he tries to get clicks and the Videos are high quality so where is the Problem?
just tried this and its a whole new champ, works insanely well. thank you :D
Hi Dobby. I'm getting back into league and your videos are the best. I unknowingly was watching your videos on LoL analyst and I'm glad I found the real person behind the videos. Thanks man.
If you want to play Smolder with more of a traditional ADC bulid, you can take either PTA or Fleet, and rush Stormrazor-CDR boots-Navori instead or ER. Your early game is basically all abt farming and harrasing with W-Q, so you can try putting 3 points into W like Dobby's reccomending here, and Stormrazor + W makes your unavoidable harras strong enough to either net you early kill or two, or the platings, and translates into really solid mid-game with strong burst and AOE dmg. It seems like Smolder's bulids are flexible enough to enable different playstyles, kinda like Ezreal and Kog
ER is basically a requirement. He's such a spammy champion that you'll be permanently OOM. The moment you get ER you're always as max mana.
@@sauvagess ER is not necessary if you take POM and/or Bisquits, and after 25 stacks you can shove waves with W-Q easily, which then gives u a free back. And if you build Stormrazor 1st, ur Q with it's proc hurts quite a lot so you can use less spells in lane and still harras ur opponent's out, esp since Stormrazor's damage is also applied on the Q explosion, while Sheen only applies to the primary target, meaning that Stormrazor also allows you to one-shot casters when they're grouped up. I've been playing Smolder with this setup since his release and had no mana issues, since I could conserve my mana more and still burn enemy hp bars and shove in when needed.
@@mattphyx If you build ER at any point, PoM becomes a wasted rune. Why would you leave power on the table like that?
@@sauvagess that's the point of the Stormrazor bulid, you don't bulid ER at all bcs you don't need the mana, and if you really want the Sheen proc, you can go Trinity after your Stormrazor-Navori-LDR core. Ofc LDR vs squishier teams is a waste, in which case you can go either Trinity, Collector (which is not the best option bcs of Smolder's built in late game execute on Q), RFC, BT, Maw or Shieldbow, or anything you need depending on the situation.
@@mattphyx It's still less efficient than stormrazor if you're already going Fleet. By the time stormrazor would outperform ER, which is about 4 items in, you'd already be building stormrazor as a 5th item anyway. Additionally, PoM does nothing if you can't hit anybody in lane, as people are already picking long-range high mobility options like Ezreal and Karma, so you'll have to back off and recall for mana due to no regen in the face of hard pushing, while ER will keep you topped off at all times and make it much easier to stack with your Q.
You a G for this one keep up the great content
Smolder is basically Xerath that transforms into an ADC after laning phase.
good video!
informative!
(can we kiss)
4:45 what a team diff holy moly
The Blitz preemptive flash was CLEAN. The emote spam after hooking the enemy under tower was just icing on the cake.
That's basically Smolder's win condition. If teams are somewhat equal it's gg. Also it could very well be a staged game to promote yet another bullshit meme build.
So Millio increases his Q range with W right? sounds like a good duo
on lolalytics im also seeing fleet footwork with a good winrate, as well as a very interesting shojin > riftmaker > liandrys build?
Now 8days later, the build evolved again, going with sojin and rift maker
This learning curve alone deserve a documentary from exil
Thanks for such an in-depth, detailed guide! Playing this champ turned out really fun, so I can't wait to try this build and runes)
Ive been running this rune set since day 2, glad it finally got picked up. Crazy people didnt realize it sooner
Comet is a really good rune in general
Great now I’m gonna have to spend more bans on my own teammates after this thanks Dobby.
weirdo
i hope you enjoy ghost/cleanse nunu mid dobby has a guide for it on this channel too :)
I mean I guess but isn't W kind od a long CD lvl 1?
@@TheJimCarry no not really, this build and play style works very well. Banning your own teammates is just griefing and stupid as shit. If you want to be an imbecile go for it.
@@TheJimCarry it's 13 secs compared to Varus Q at 16 secs and E at 18 secs, and ppl spam those in laning phase
"Nobody knows about this secret smolder build"
The build: His most popular build that has been the recommended items by the game itself since day 1
Smolder is the only champion who can tell the mom to go boom
I had this on the enemy team yesterday, it was honestly very strong and felt even busted at times. Made me wanna try it myself. Still won against it but he heavily missplayed a bunch and our team was winning on the other sides aswell
This is my first time seeing gameplay of Smolder.
Why the hell is he SO GODDAMN CUTE?!
God that W hit box and damage ratio is insane early.
Agree👍
wow this really helped me better use smolder. been trying him on Quickplay but always get dominated by other lane but with this build I was ahead for the fist timne haha Altough didnt win the game it made me better at laning phase. Thank you for this!!!!
love your informative lol tutorials
Just tried those and it's money. Feels so much better. Thank you!
this makes so much sense. Got to try it. Exploded my mind with the q/w leveling. I was wondering this myself.
literal elder drake with free will
Not knowing what smolders abilities are before watching the video made me really confused at 5:16
Would aery work too with this same build logic? Considering it doesnt have much of a cooldown unlike comet, its a decent poke rune too i swear?
Yes its fine... why wouldn't it be. Why do people need so much guidance just use your brain
@@dbrawla6319 i'm asking a question lmao, no need to be pressed about it.
Will you do a video on malignance karma?
Hey Dobby, what do you think of triple tonic over boots? I think it's a cool rune that let's you still get Q level 5 at 9 after doing 3 points W because of elixir of skill
It's good, too !
I'm glad I had the right idea with comet and scorch, clearing the wave with w instead of going all in on Q.
You aren't suppose to be wave clearing with W.
The 3 points into W is for harass and softening the wave for your Q. If you're clearing the waves themselves with W, then you're just playing wrong and making it take longer to reach 225.
@@A1phaz0ne Yeah no shit, clearing doesn't mean last hit.
@@VeylmanTheRock Clearing means...clearing.
rewatching this def is helping me understand misconceptions I had. maybe Smolder needs good defenders and not pokers in the support role
I waited for this vid. Yesterday i searched for 'loldobby smolder'. I played it and wondered how the hell is it supposed to be built with the ap ratios and physical damage. It felt so weak and 225 stacks take up to 20-30 minutes. Sometimes at that point the game is lost already. I wondered also to build a tank with the true dmg later on
He's good after 125 stacks too
At first I couldn't win barely any lanes, but after some practice and knowing you can ONLY do short one-sided trades, I startaed to actually win A LOT
@@Kyle-nm1kh He really isnt, his AA/Q range is too short/average every single other adc at the same range will always dumpster him until 225, and at that point its so late into th game that he'll still probably die to them before killing them, he does become really good vs melees at that point though (or anything that has lower range than his Q).
Funny this video comes out a day after I was talking to a friend of mine about this very thing.
I said if they remembered how Lucian players use to put several points in W for the poke because the base damage was so high (before they nerfed it) and said that Smolder's W was looking really, really similar if you start Doran's Ring and get Comet.
Do you upgrade dark seal or sell it?
Im doing him bruiser top with either fleetfoot work for ms + kiting or first strike for poke + gold and free stacking depending on match up, the only goal is to be a ranged top so poke melee tops for free stack and later on abuse the 225 stacks mark. I dont have any mana problems as long as i have presence of mind and dorans ring so i dont build any mana items and rush titanic hidra first for q + active for instant wave clear and stack (hidra kill with q also counts for stacking passive)
This is 10/10 guide .... i knew press the attack was over rated and was thinking can i play with blue runes ... thx for confirming this :D
Remember when SIon could do the same with his E thanks to having the hitbox bugged? I can see a nerf coming to the little lizard.
On the other hand, I kinda of feel that you can pick AP items once you have Navori and essence reaver.
Probably just a liandry to have double the burn
5:16 I died with this 😂😂
i have a question, what happen with the dark seal when u go up on the match, U make a mejai? u sold it when u need room for ur last item?
i play it full poke mid, use R as waveclear with Fleet or aery.
You can call mom
I always roll play when smolder, this is the reason I like him. In middle of fight just screaming MOOOOOOOOOM every single time 😅
omg what did i say, this lil guy is a mage in disguise. my friends said i was wrong to build ap (and i guess i kinda was wrong to go full AP) but the W damage goes hard and R heal scaling with AP has saved me more times than I'd like to admit
It just works, poke is nice and you are safe. I was running Fleet for sustain and survivability, but this actually makes you a threat and you don't have to take Precision secondary that aren't that good for you anyways
spamming smolder after release, the thing that make this little dragon op is you can full clear wave on min 6 mark after you reaching 25 stack ( which is kinda stupid), kinda hope they tuning up the number early on
That all he do :)))
Clearing wave. So suck on teamfight since he deal no damage till 30min
first strike feels amazing on him, u get free procs with w aa q and in teamfights with r it goes crazy
Honestly haven't had any problems early game because of PTA but that may be because he's genuinely much better mid than bot. Level 1 you can just wait on enemy to use their ability then just force them out because Q procs PTA. Additionally if you're gonna play smolder bot you want mostly a poke support or engage support because you need those stacks and can't afford letting support take some cs for their item quest
so which support synergises with smolder is there a specific type or they need to have something?
its nice too since you can stack with W hitting champs, at first i was trying titanic hydra for the q cleave stacks but the build seemed messy. poke and stack after w feels the best forsure
5:17 i can WHAT?
Build makes sense, glad someone is finally teaching players to go dorans ring, but isn't Smolder's lategame still pretty underwhelming when you make it there? The execute is indeed amazing, but aside from that, Smolder lacks high dps or range, and the ult never feels as impactful as it should be for teamfights.
This is what I’ve been saying all along 😔
Wwhat would make smolder more op? reset on takedown on the e.
Finally this video I need, thanks for your hard work :3
I practiced arc comet smolder with manaflow, minion disintegrator and three pots thingy and that was amasing
1:01 same for veigar and nasus at aram.
Not veigar/nasus user at Summoners' rift btw
Based on this video, I can be a League Analyst in KR as this is how I played Smolder from day 1 on the PBE.
Trust the KR players, they will always cook something.
I don't know if the tactic of "level w" is all that nerfable, but yeah, w max health plus phys and magic scaling is good
can you do a video on Lazyfeel?
I was almost in that build already while testing it, w does so much damage lvl1 and give 2 stacks if you hit both, and manamune is not that good, you only need mana early game and essence already gives that for mid late, plus crit rush is so good for him. Gonna try comet but this looks so close to what I was coming into
On my games on him I didn't struggle much early, rather it's the mid-game that's painful, when you are trying to reach 225 stacks.
I actually prefer to go AP on him whenever possible, it feels a lot more consistent. Liandry's and Lich Bane are the two core items (Seraph's is also pretty good), then you can pivot into a low-AP utility build with items like RFC, Rylai's and Cosmic Drive, or more AP with Rabadon's and Zhonya's. The main downside of going AP is that you'll deal about 50% magic damage so neither Void Staff or LDR are good.
Please don't click bait people into thinking that something that is slightly better on someone who is STATICALLY bad atm is "OP"
can you do a new smolder video?
isnt min 22 kinda late for evolved q? Maybe its bc I play him top and in emerald, but pre 20 is definitly possible. He is like the better gp with lower skill ceiling imo
Comet, huh? I've just been using Fleet Footwork with the same skill order and been doing fine, holding a 82% win rate. All of my losses have been people trolling in champ select and flaming before 15 seconds into the game.
This strat with fleet is just as good if not better for late game - d ring start is essential tho
In the even or winning lane, you go comet. Into lane bullies, you go Fleet. But Fleet is obviously much more flexible.
@@Mendamar-uv4jg Yea agreed I personally prefer comet every game
@@tautherus1180 Same
he said in the video that if you are worried about teamfight, you can go fleet instead of comet, and it will work just as well
Me a professional abuser running him as an Assassin with a 73% wr in Grandmaster....
really great info well done
Thanks! Now Smolder is playable early game in low elo lol
Just tried it, feels much much better than q start
Guys why did they not tell us that rapid firecanon expand the Q range since it is considered like an aa in the champ presentation ?
Noted, i called my mom after reaching level 6, she was pleased i got in touch with her again
Can you make a Smolder video in new patch 😢
is smolder comet still good in 14.12?
2:48 NDOMBELE? I KNEW IT, BRO TRIES TO CHANGE HIS JOB TO FULL TIME STREAMER AND YTER SO HE CAN EAT MORE
On god whenever dobby release a vid, the play rate for the given build goes up so much xd
If this champ was a mid laner adcs would cry. Imagine veigar could fly but was also a million times easier and could build lifesteal. Easiest champ maybe in the entire game
Seeing this videos makes you think if a similar kind of strategy would work on a champion like kog. If you think about it smolder's w is very similar to kog's e. Maybe with minor changed such as taking lethal insted of comet this could work for kog, since you dont really wanna win lane with him but aim for even.
no bc kog is an auto heavy champ, he's not a spellcaster.
playing him fulll ap is just nerfing urself
@@Hallo-sz6hk i meant for the lane mate. 3 points into e and then w max
does it still work reasonable?
I still feel he is weak while fighting with others strong ADC since you rely on skills than AA. Maybe can adjust his E for longer time and let us cast any spells as well without ending the E. And there's no animation on casting ability while on E. Reset after killing could be nice but it will be overpowered
I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY TOO but Arcane and AP. I just need to work on using my kiting vs assasins better.
"At lvl 6 you can call your mom"
I don't like essence reaver, navori. I'm more of a manamura, kracken slayer, IE kinda guy. The damage is more or less the same with the build here but once you get IE shit starts blowing up
sleep doesn't come off after smolder dealing damage with e 6:49
a bit over powered if you ask me, can go through walls, hit invisible enemies
gives him too much safety, overall, a bit unfair to play against.
As cool as this is I do want to remind people this:
This build more than likely works better specifically for higher elo players due to less mistakes, more precise need for certain things among the champion pool. Strictly speaking, I doubt this build will be game changing for lower elo games considering the higher mistake margin.
I always saw Smoulder more of a caster then an adc. This build helps conserve that idea
is it me or is making runes hard bugged on Smolder. I cant change anything and defaults to PTA.
This is giving E max Miss Fortune flashbacks
When this build spread = it will be right after when dobby introduces it !!
They not releasing new champs anymore ?😅
i been fooling around with getting tiamat early and q maxing. this build look fun too.
Did this one from the very beginning lol, why do people reconize too late like this?
struggling to hit required q stacks at min 12...more so at min 16
Went 3/0 in Lane with this build but got jg gapped anyways