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Smolder Wild Rift champion guide

Champion guide

What the Rift Lab holds on this champion: the kit as Riot publishes it, the build the lab reviewed, and the matchups it has documented. Anything the dataset does not record is left out rather than filled in.

In-game title
The Fiery Fledgling
Official role
MARKSMAN, MAGE
Lane
Dragon / ADC
Difficulty
Medium
Source tier
S+

Abilities

Riot's own text for each slot, in the order the champion learns them.

PASSIVE DRAGON PRACTICE

Hitting champions with abilities and killing enemies with Super Scorcher Breath grants a stack of Dragon Practice. Stacks increase the damage of Smolder’s basic abilities.

1 SUPER SCORCHER BREATH

Smolder breathes fire on an enemy, dealing both physical and magic damage. If the target is killed Smolder refunds mana. As he gains more stacks, this ability becomes more powerful. Passive: Level 1 stacks–ability deals damage to all enemies in the area. Level 2 stacks–ability triggers explosions behind the target. Level 3 stacks–abilitiy burns target for true damage, executing low-health enemy champions.

2 ACHOOO!

Smolder lets out an adorable flaming sneeze that explodes when hitting enemy champions. Subsequent explosions deal smaller amounts of damage. Passive: the explosion deals bonus magic damage.

3 FLAP, FLAP, FLAP

Smolder takes flight ignoring terrain and bombarding the lowest health enemy. In flight Smolder’s vision range is increased. Passive: deal bonus magic damage for each hit and gain extra bolts.

ULTIMATE MMOOOMMMM!

Smolder calls his mom to breathe fire from above, dealing extra damage and slowing enemies in the center of her fire. Getting hit by the fire himself, Smolder gains health.

Reviewed build

The reviewed purchase order and rune page for this champion. Every entry that has a page of its own is linked to it; an item the catalogue holds no page for is printed as a name rather than pointed at a page that does not exist.

Core build order

  1. Manamune
  2. Trinity Force
  3. Serylda's Grudge
  4. Gluttonous Greaves

Runes

Matchups

  • 6reviewed counter links
  • 5reviewed synergy links

Harder matchups

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Ability text and the in-game title follow Riot's official Wild Rift champion pages. The tier letter is the external snapshot shown on the tier list, and the build is the Nexus reviewed snapshot — neither is a win rate.

Quick answers

Who counters Smolder in Wild Rift?

In the matchup data documented in Rift Lab, these are the harder matchups for Smolder: Draven (Dragon / ADC), Samira (Dragon / ADC), Lucian (Dragon / ADC), Caitlyn (Dragon / ADC), Tristana (Dragon / ADC), Varus (Dragon / ADC). This is a documented matchup list, not a win rate: TheNexus does not publish win-rate or pick-rate figures it cannot source.

How do you play against Smolder in Wild Rift?

Riot's ability text for Smolder contains none of the crowd-control, dash, shield or healing wording we match on. Read the ability descriptions on this page before the first trade.

What is the best build for Smolder in Wild Rift?

The Nexus-reviewed core build for Smolder, in purchase order: Manamune then Trinity Force then Serylda's Grudge then Gluttonous Greaves. Runes: Fleet Footwork, Battle Zeal, Cut Down, Legend: Bloodline, Transcendence, Coup de Grace. This is a reviewed snapshot (patch 7.2b), not a build ranked by win rate.

Which lane and role does Smolder play in Wild Rift?

Smolder is a Marksman and Mage by Riot's classification and is played in Dragon / ADC. Riot rates the difficulty Medium. On our tier-list snapshot (patch 7.2b) it shows S+ tier from its external source, which is a snapshot letter and not a TheNexus win rate.

Every answer here is built from Rift Lab data and Riot's own ability text. Where the data is missing we say so instead of guessing.

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