they tried 100 of times without mid scale update or rework which btw they think it about corki as adc kinda impossible without making his mid overpower @@Brightside187
The way I've been playing him is top with Tear first item, against a lot of melee tops it allows you to spam W on them and get those stacks, E also gives you enough mobility to gain distance if they're running at you, and it also hits him if they're within range, the range Q has allows you to slowly poke them down to kill range, where you can use the Q W E Q combo mentioned, it's been working extremely well for me so far. Even more so since no one knows how to go against him
Pretty disappointed that you guys wouldn't recommend boosting Smolder's early game by going Comet, Doran's Ring and putting 3 points in W asap. This not only fixes his very weak early game but also gives me much higher wave clear and poke capacity.
Important Tip: Dont go Presence of Mind if you are planning on rushing Essence Reaver. You won't be doing much champion trading pre ER and Biscuit will keep ur mana pool. And once you get ur ER you wont ever be missing mana as Q will acutally regen ur mana bar.
5:12 I hope they fix that, cuz that will probably keep me from playing him. There are few things in this game that I hate more that clompsy animations, even worse if it is with an ADC.
He's not really designed around attack speed like most other ADCs are. Your auto's should be doing like 400-600 damage late game and Q 1k+. I don't think it's clunky animation it's intentional lag for balance.
I disagree with going conqueror. I'd rather have PTA. Q counts as a attack for PTA and he struggles to get damage off early in trades. This gives him the trade of w auto q auto as a quick trade.Then PTA helps with making his mid game burst much better. What's the idea behind CONQ? Smolder stacks it well enough but is the base ad later in the game and heal really what he wants?
what setting do you have enabled to make it so that the amount of stacks wen you last hit a creep shows up? i dont see that when i play him and last hit with Q
Since everyone is queueing adc atm I only got one game of smolder in all day but hes easily the most fun adc (Imo) but hes 100% a later game champ his early damage isnt as good as other adcs
kind of tired of riot making the only three dragon champs in this game all noob stomping scalers. “we want to engage players with a variety of gameplay fantasies!” meanwhile all they have is one gameplay fantasy with three flavours
Time for new Meta. Let that Ori/Karthus/Hwei u name it, farm in bot, while supp roams more, and goes for Grubbies. And u still have ADC like Smolder on Map. Or give Mid to a Tank or Bruiser and Smolder Top? Lets see what the "Pros" are cooking, and maybe Things will shift a bit.
I am still waiting for the moment where the pros shift bot and top around since top is now really ungankable and so the adcs and supports can help with grubs@@rammbadedu1215
@@rammbadedu1215 Stacking champ on top sounds terrible. Ever see how tough ofg a time Nasus has, even though he has huge built-in LS and also a deranged R?
Why conq and not pta ur q applies a proc letting u get all three pretty fast plus it makes early game laning a lot stronger than conq will allowing u to stack faster and more efficiently
Fun mfact for mid lane smodlers. If you play against malz the voidlings acctually give you stacks when killed with Q wich make this matchup nearly unplayble for malz :D
@@Whisperlostit’s not that nobody does know how to, it’s a 5v5 game and unless you only play splitpushers there’s no way to reliably end games when they should be ended
so i played smolder ADC and i think it feels terrible. i will test smolder mid AP and jungle now cause the only way i see smolder will be played is like a ziggs "adc" botlane as ap
Even at the late game the W and E damage is just fkin tickling other champions. I'm not talking about tickling TANK champs even attacking Vayne and other ADC or SP, the W and E damage is so fkin LOW!
They need to ban new champs from ranked for 1-2 weeks. Sick and tired of watching smolders get wrecked, just screwing over their teammates because they try to rush playing it in ranked.
The bigest deception as an adc, Nilah was´nt a good ADC either. why is Riot trying to make mages for botlane, i want a real ADC, not these thing that dose´nt even make autoatack damage
Nilah is an incredibly good adc, shes just not a good blind pick adc nor is she popular. I one trick her and she is incredibly strong in many matchups and has consistently had a good winrate.
@@atlan5139don’t try to change an average players vision. There is a reason nilah has high win rate in high mmr and u described it good. The person above is average and didn’t do any research
if that happens they will be nerfing his mid laning, Riot always try and ensure the champs dont go places they dont want. But honestly he seems too weak on his own to be played mid. He really prefers having help
@@violentgravy01Well, then you're pretty dumb for someone trying to be smart on the internet. Every single ability of Nami speeds up allies. Read the tooltip, bronzie.
Smoulder has 550 AA range which is the same as most ADC's.... not sure why you kept making out as if hes basically a melee champion lol. Hes not and his range is fine.
Nah, they’ll shove him in Midlane. Most champs these days end up completely different lanes. Like why is Seraphine so prominent in ADC role still? Why is Zyra now being buff to be a jungler? Why is Irelia stuck in Mid role because Top lane is a shit show? 😒😒😒 like the meta has shifted so much champs aren’t the role they originally were assigned
Where to play this little guy??? At bot, Lucian, Draven, Cait, MF, Aphelios and even Tristana obliterate him. Not to mention he needs supports with great disengage. At mid is also bad... Cait and Tristana just kill him hands dow, while the usual assassins / harassers just send him to base really fast.... Top.... not a chance for top
so he has AoE on a spammable ability with built in wanna be ludens, max hp burn AND an execute all the while infintely stacking? overloaded much? it doesnt matter how small the exec range is or how low the burn dmg is: smolders dmg economy is absolutely busted. whats next does he have an integrated cup holder with built in drink heating? WTF is that champ? first hwei now that? while these may be fun to play they sure as hell are not healthy for the game.
Smolder is in a really bad state for playin botlane. Scaling take ages and every other adc kill him easly in the first 30mins. Played him 2 times, scalin good but still bad. ( Emerald 3 ) Q- Dmg is way to weak early game. W-Dmg way to weak and only good to slow or cs. E-Spell Terrain flying is good, but Dmg is way to weak R-Spell way to slow and hard to hit. His winrate will be below 43% for sure in a long term. Atleast when playin him AD.
Would get skillcapped if it wasn’t a massive discount on a 6 month sub that I’ll barely use, and it’s way too much monthly. Make monthly lower and I’d buy.
Rank up fast in Season 14 with Skill-Capped! skill-capped.com/lol 👈👈👈👈👈
lets see how much time till he is no longer an adc like corki
I am pretty sure they are planning on something for Corki to make him more at home in the ADC role again.
they tried 100 of times without mid scale update or rework which btw they think it about corki as adc kinda impossible without making his mid overpower
@@Brightside187
it depends it might me like kow
@@aironaspudymaitis3695 he is DEF NOT LIKE kow, kow is attackspeed adc u cant aa with this shit, this is a midlaner as they come.
@younesstibokka372 who says you can't go atack speed on him plus fact his abilities scale with ap and ad
Time to greif my ranked games with power farm Smolder Jungle 🥰
Oh wait… he has a mini elder dragon in his kit, because he’s a baby dragon 😮
Surprised there is no mention that Rapid Firecannon increases Smolder's Q range.
Nice to see Ezreal talking about a champion similar to him.
I have a feeling he is going to be absolutely oppressive in the Top Lane
The way I've been playing him is top with Tear first item, against a lot of melee tops it allows you to spam W on them and get those stacks, E also gives you enough mobility to gain distance if they're running at you, and it also hits him if they're within range, the range Q has allows you to slowly poke them down to kill range, where you can use the Q W E Q combo mentioned, it's been working extremely well for me so far. Even more so since no one knows how to go against him
"Look at this fed talon", then show a clip where smolder is 9-0 has 240 stacks before 20min and is the same lv as the enemy midlaner.
Pretty disappointed that you guys wouldn't recommend boosting Smolder's early game by going Comet, Doran's Ring and putting 3 points in W asap.
This not only fixes his very weak early game but also gives me much higher wave clear and poke capacity.
what setting do you use to make it so that the amount of stacks you get shows up? i dont see that when i play him.
I also wanted to know that cant figure out what im missing in the settings menu
How do I make it so league displays the +1 stack thing? i need that dopamine hit.
there is a neat little trick you can do with rapidfire, you can Q+auto for an extra enhance auto if you time it right
Important Tip: Dont go Presence of Mind if you are planning on rushing Essence Reaver. You won't be doing much champion trading pre ER and Biscuit will keep ur mana pool. And once you get ur ER you wont ever be missing mana as Q will acutally regen ur mana bar.
Nice guide, I need to start collecting ble essence now
Camp this dragon hard early on. Understood.
I was waiting for this guide!
Great video, thanks!
Smolder guide:
step 1. MOMMMMMM
Very help-full and helped too get my head around stuff I forgot
5:12 I hope they fix that, cuz that will probably keep me from playing him. There are few things in this game that I hate more that clompsy animations, even worse if it is with an ADC.
He's not really designed around attack speed like most other ADCs are. Your auto's should be doing like 400-600 damage late game and Q 1k+. I don't think it's clunky animation it's intentional lag for balance.
@@jacobogorman9055 I agree with this message
I disagree with going conqueror. I'd rather have PTA. Q counts as a attack for PTA and he struggles to get damage off early in trades. This gives him the trade of w auto q auto as a quick trade.Then PTA helps with making his mid game burst much better. What's the idea behind CONQ? Smolder stacks it well enough but is the base ad later in the game and heal really what he wants?
I think fleet is the only option to stay safe and farm... He is a scaler, so you should make runes to help early and ignore late
What setting is it that shows the +stacks when you kill minions
I wanna see how well lethality works out on him, could be good to give him a spike early
what setting do you have enabled to make it so that the amount of stacks wen you last hit a creep shows up? i dont see that when i play him and last hit with Q
Since everyone is queueing adc atm I only got one game of smolder in all day but hes easily the most fun adc (Imo) but hes 100% a later game champ his early damage isnt as good as other adcs
Skill capped casually teaching everyone how to feed with smolder 😂
Question does shyvana get less damage from smolder like she does from other dragons
I am SO EXCITED to play Smolder. I deserve this champion and I am eager to add him to my pool.
You will cry and Troll because of 89% ban rate
kind of tired of riot making the only three dragon champs in this game all noob stomping scalers. “we want to engage players with a variety of gameplay fantasies!” meanwhile all they have is one gameplay fantasy with three flavours
I hope shyvana won't be reworked in a low elo stomper (like she is right now)
Are you not in noob elo then? Why are you watching skill capped if you're diamond or above
@@oinksterpork4778diamond is noob elo
@@oinksterpork4778 that has literally nothing to do with what i said…
@@Realradyadiamond is like the top 1%
SO BAASICALLY HE IS A MIDLANER ?
Yes
Time for new Meta. Let that Ori/Karthus/Hwei u name it, farm in bot, while supp roams more, and goes for Grubbies.
And u still have ADC like Smolder on Map. Or give Mid to a Tank or Bruiser and Smolder Top?
Lets see what the "Pros" are cooking, and maybe Things will shift a bit.
I am still waiting for the moment where the pros shift bot and top around since top is now really ungankable and so the adcs and supports can help with grubs@@rammbadedu1215
@@rammbadedu1215 Stacking champ on top sounds terrible. Ever see how tough ofg a time Nasus has, even though he has huge built-in LS and also a deranged R?
@@bebaiz but Nasus is melee and static.
Why conq and not pta ur q applies a proc letting u get all three pretty fast plus it makes early game laning a lot stronger than conq will allowing u to stack faster and more efficiently
We need another hector challenge. It’s been a year since the last one, I have withdrawal symptoms
Does smolder q crit ? And is it treeated as aa like ezreal q !?
It should not. Saw a vid in which they build triforce and it didn't proc on Q
yes they mention it in the video I think, if sheen works on his q only on one target that means crit applies as well
Fun mfact for mid lane smodlers.
If you play against malz the voidlings acctually give you stacks when killed with Q wich make this matchup nearly unplayble for malz :D
dude that smolder on the example is 9/0, how "fed" was the talon?? 25/0?
37% WR on release...
This didn't age well since he doesn't survive through nerfs, he needs buffs. But I imagine the tips will still apply.
His E looks like fun. I think it's a cool trade-off to his low range. He gets that mobility.
Probably be nerfed a bunch like Zeri
Time for heartsteel off-tank hyper scaling top smolder
You lose against every champion with a hard engage.
amazing guide!!!!!!!!
can he get knockup while in e
how he is not a midlaner lmao, this is so easy for roaming etc
As a liss main...this might become my ad pick 😮
when does he come out ?
Out now
very useful video
Another banger of a video
We all know he will be on permaban for months anyways like every other new champion
when is it coming to live servers?
In 2 hours
@@galaxyblue3530 huh ? thought he is comming on 7 feb
"Smolder is set to make his debut in League of Legends with the release of patch 14.3, scheduled for Wednesday, February 7 (Pacific time)."
he is @@Malucoto
k thanks@@Whisperlost
Infinite scaling. Nah just ban that bs. Looks like Senna but even more of a pita to deal with in a 35-40 minute game.
i mean only low elo games go for like 35 - 50 minutes. Low elos should learn how to close out games :P
@@Whisperlostit’s not that nobody does know how to, it’s a 5v5 game and unless you only play splitpushers there’s no way to reliably end games when they should be ended
@@Whisperlost That is not true at all. Plenty of higher elo games go for 30+ minutes. However, i disagree the infinite scaling is an issue.
Can i finally play him post hotfix?
so i played smolder ADC and i think it feels terrible. i will test smolder mid AP and jungle now cause the only way i see smolder will be played is like a ziggs "adc" botlane as ap
you forget to say: you can farm stacks with W hit on enemies.
To the person watching this on the bus in front of me right now; good luck tonight
Haha!
The question is ... What are best support comps with Smolder? Something like Thresh, Leona? 🤔
kinda dated ... Koreans go comet mana band so on and put 3lvls into W early to give him early wave clear and poke...
First lets goooo!!! Time to main smolder and burn down the entire rift!!! My ticket to diamond!
?
unfortunately he's gonna be pick/banned like all new champs in the first few days of release lol
That's adorable 😂
You mean ticket to silver
You still have to be good at the game too get to diamond
What do you think will be the best supports with Smolder?
Alright, thank you! :D
"... You'll need to break the habit of auto attacking after casting a spell. So anyway, here's 5 different clips of us
buying spellblade items"
his Q procs spellblade items like for ezreal
How about playing him as a bruiser on midlane?
probably depends on what elo you are.
@@Whisperlost b2
in b2 you can def play her midlane @@jakubpruszczak9169
you can play rengar ap at this elo it would still work@@jakubpruszczak9169
How to play Smolder
Step 1: Pray he doesn’t get banned by the enemy
It really seems like it's another midlaner, and we're in desperate need of new ADCs
Even at the late game the W and E damage is just fkin tickling other champions. I'm not talking about tickling TANK champs even attacking Vayne and other ADC or SP, the W and E damage is so fkin LOW!
They need to ban new champs from ranked for 1-2 weeks. Sick and tired of watching smolders get wrecked, just screwing over their teammates because they try to rush playing it in ranked.
just tried it with crit and feels shit
The bigest deception as an adc, Nilah was´nt a good ADC either.
why is Riot trying to make mages for botlane, i want a real ADC, not these thing that dose´nt even make autoatack damage
Nilah is an incredibly good adc, shes just not a good blind pick adc nor is she popular. I one trick her and she is incredibly strong in many matchups and has consistently had a good winrate.
@@atlan5139don’t try to change an average players vision. There is a reason nilah has high win rate in high mmr and u described it good. The person above is average and didn’t do any research
JUSTICE FOR VEIGAR!
he needs some love, they can't even be bothered to update his art that's how much they hate him
Noooo Skill Capped what have you done. Everybody, be prepared to have a first time Smoulder 0/10 on your teams.
You think people wouldn't play him if skillcapped didnt make a video?
Maybe how to counter smolder video?
senna and kai'sa bangs him i guess
LIKE WHY IS THIS GUIDE 13 MIN CAN YOU MAKE IT LIKE SHORTER JESUS
Going to be honest, he's not going bot lane, more like mid will abuse like corki.
if that happens they will be nerfing his mid laning, Riot always try and ensure the champs dont go places they dont want. But honestly he seems too weak on his own to be played mid. He really prefers having help
just shit myself
Me too
Best guide for smolder players: Uninstall the game. Not just smolder players, everyone.
Smolder seems extraordinarily weak right now. Or maybe it's the same as with Briar, people not knowing how to play him well ( couldnt be me)
basicly shadowflame instakills enemys.
Another day another broken 200yrs champion
Nami's W and E speed up allies...
All Nami's abilities speed up allies (with her passive)
@odeltav i know, the video said only E... also I'm pretty sure Q doesn't.
@@violentgravy01Well, then you're pretty dumb for someone trying to be smart on the internet. Every single ability of Nami speeds up allies. Read the tooltip, bronzie.
@@violentgravy01 Nami Q also speeds you up if get hit. By an ally Nami ofc.
Smoulder has 550 AA range which is the same as most ADC's.... not sure why you kept making out as if hes basically a melee champion lol. Hes not and his range is fine.
Nah, they’ll shove him in Midlane. Most champs these days end up completely different lanes. Like why is Seraphine so prominent in ADC role still? Why is Zyra now being buff to be a jungler? Why is Irelia stuck in Mid role because Top lane is a shit show? 😒😒😒 like the meta has shifted so much champs aren’t the role they originally were assigned
Require champ mastery before letting people play new champs in ranked
Looks like a mid laner to me
Q being point and click is stupid
This feels like forcing another dragon ap caster into being an ad carry. Doesnt make sense.
Haha what do they mean adc!? This is a mid laner 100%
The build doesn't make sense, you can't build 2 sheen items
Where to play this little guy??? At bot, Lucian, Draven, Cait, MF, Aphelios and even Tristana obliterate him. Not to mention he needs supports with great disengage.
At mid is also bad... Cait and Tristana just kill him hands dow, while the usual assassins / harassers just send him to base really fast.... Top.... not a chance for top
so he has AoE on a spammable ability with built in wanna be ludens, max hp burn AND an execute all the while infintely stacking? overloaded much? it doesnt matter how small the exec range is or how low the burn dmg is: smolders dmg economy is absolutely busted. whats next does he have an integrated cup holder with built in drink heating? WTF is that champ? first hwei now that? while these may be fun to play they sure as hell are not healthy for the game.
Smolder is in a really bad state for playin botlane. Scaling take ages and every other adc kill him easly in the first 30mins. Played him 2 times, scalin good but still bad. ( Emerald 3 )
Q- Dmg is way to weak early game.
W-Dmg way to weak and only good to slow or cs.
E-Spell Terrain flying is good, but Dmg is way to weak
R-Spell way to slow and hard to hit.
His winrate will be below 43% for sure in a long term. Atleast when playin him AD.
seems like this little guy gets no hype lmao
I AM HYPED
No hype is good if you want to actually play him, lol
Another Instant Ban for the week (so my team wont play him)
RATIO OMEGALUL
Smolder an K'sante came from 1 champion designer. 200 YEARS
42% 😂😂
Already gotten 3 pentas lmao broken
more mobility yay
Would get skillcapped if it wasn’t a massive discount on a 6 month sub that I’ll barely use, and it’s way too much monthly. Make monthly lower and I’d buy.
why the fuck is he fine early game but infinite scales with passive with elder drake on Q RIOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
AND CAN FLY OVER WALLS AS ADC LIKE ZERI
such a bad champ
Mid for me
I hate smolder
first strike 100% feels like the best keystone. ive tried pretty much all of em. essence reaver/coll/navori feels like the best 3 item spike