dat would be chaotic as heck AHAHAHAH

What do you think about blackfire instead of luden build on ryze? I swear rod of ages is useless nowadays and i hateeee it

Galio?

Hi Shok! 😊 What are the reasons for maxing W second instead of E? Lower CD on E would increase mobility and survivability, which seems very important on Smolder. Would you ever consider maxing E second? Merry Christmas! 🎄❤️🙏

ty for share this content dude :)

Best guide ive ever watched. Packed with understandable information that is both succinct and comprehensive

Do you think that Comet is ever a viable rune on Smolder? I know you've said that Hubris+Comet relies too much on snowballing, but I thought that one could also just build Essence Reaver, even with Comet. My thought was that maybe it would be better than other rune options if the enemy is very high range but you still don't need the MS from Fleet. An example in my mind would be Lux or Azir. If comet isn't it in these Matchups, what would you recommend going?

Do you consider Ahri and Aurora to be good side laners?

No more is it about the game, it’s about the shareholders 😂😂

New video title: Why correct itemization makes shitty AD mids like smolder actuallly work. - Road to Rank 1.

Ok Shok but lets actually discuss what D tier means, what I understand is that for the average player it is indeed a bad pick, i try to play only S tier or maybe A tier champions as a guideline of what is actually good in the current patch, you just showed it works tho, but also.. stats dont lie

I played against viktor and i understand why it should be banned while playing smolder. That was a horrific experience. Almost impossible to trade with an undodgeable E. Is there any chance we can play resolve second to get second wind or jack of all trades is a must?

Can you give us a list of these champs for mid so we can abuse them? 😂 thanks!

This type of champ makes me afraid of spending time on them. Idk when is Riot gonna flip a switch and banish him from mid.

1:47:40 MAKE A CLIP/SHORT OF THIS BRO

Unfortunately this champion is hard af

Is hwei any good for the meta ?

still waiting for tank Akali <3

I think toxicity would be less overall but way more intense when you actually find a really toxic player. Nobody cares about rewards for not being toxic because Riot keeps nerfing them alongside all of the f2p rewards. The only way I see would be to permanently record everything and manually review reports (which Riot is never going to do because why waste money with no return) and make it honor level 4 or 5 exclusive. But I really don’t see that happening.

I think vc will fix it, you can still just mute toxic people but 90% are too antisocial to be toxic in vc Its so much easier to just type and ping than to do it in vc

I still cant understand how some people think vc is a bad idea. First- most of the league goblins wouldnt be so talkative if u could hear their voice. Second- if someone doesnt want to cooperate u just mute them (yes its that easy). Its literally the same in csgo where people are extremely toxic, but u always have at least one normal person that uses vc in a way its supposed to be used. And thats already a lot better than no vc.

dota has voice chat and something most high ranked players say is to mute all until you are top 1% then you will have benefit from what they have to say

19:47 flash q is triple

Oponnent syndra on my game got 2 free kills and had the speed/boot runes so she outsped me it was unplayable as I was stuck under my tower getting abused I felt molested

Syndra is the worst matchup for smolder after Viktor great video

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I honestly love the idea of communicating directly, but because im the jungler all im gonna hear is stupid shit like "can you gank pls? my champ requires gold" and then they insta tilt and say sarcastic toned bullshit when im not even in the condition to use my turn's tempo it makes me feel bad for no reason even though if I made the correct play lmao and this comes from me playing in a vc with a bunch of randoms, hell even in my tryouts... so I have mixed feelings about vc, sure I can mute them, but id be missing out on so much info as a jungler

It would make the game into a team game. Riot doesn't want it so not happening

isnt smolder pretty much exactly like viktor? lane bully that scales super well actively

Yo. Shok kind of looks like he’s related to this Luigi fella… do we know where he was on the night of the pew pew of the CEO?!

Hahahaha I SUCK at this pick I’m perma 0/5 225 stacks 27 min 😂😂 I’m the goat of auto pushing waves and dying to ganks

imagine proxy chat only on vision that would be so fun

I doubt junglers are capable of speech

Is Smolder good for a low elo (gold) champion pool? Or is he bad for learning the game as a whole?

dude if I was playing league and tabbed to see I have a smolder mid with merc treds and glowing mote or whatever I would be sooo mad ngl.

Proximity chat would be better.

i’m sorry but smolder is so much fun to play but the most dogshit champ to play

I agree that the negative interaction will be worse than in chat, but if you've ever played COD, it'll be about the same as that lol and you can always just mute and report. I agree that it'll be alot more toxic, but only in the beginning. I think eventually the toxic people will get banned out of the game, and simultaneously, proper comms will fix alot of the big problems that League has, making people less likely to flame. For example, you got Maokai vs Olaf top, Hecarim vs Volibear jung, you have Yone Mid, whatever ADC and a Leona Supprt. The game is fine.... except the Maokai keeps dying to Olaf after lvl 6 because he keeps tryna CC him when he's on his ult so the Leona TPs top to help, Hec with a gank, only to die 3v1. Then you got a Hecarim that's wondering why he keeps losing damage, and taking a bunch of damage while Voli gets a shield and heals a ton off him. Now Olaf is at least 7/0 and the Voli is 4/0, and the game is essentially lost. It could've all been avoided by having the ability to just say "When Olaf is glowing he can't be CCed. Don't let him auto you, and it'll go away, then you can cc him to death" or "Voli's E slows anyone it hits and gives hima shield. Your passive makes you do decreased damage with any movement speed debuff. Also if you have an X over you, stay away from Voli until it's gone, them he can't heal". Now, that took my like 1 to 2 mins to type.... that's ALOT of time in League, so you can't really do that in text until the endgame where all the damage is already done, and the death timers are high. At that point, when the team is 6 kills to 36, all you really wanna do is flame your team for dying in such preventable ways.

Hey there's this really cool thing called a mute button. Add voice chat and if u wanna use it with some of your team and not use it with rest of team just Add a fucking mute button just like u can mute pings and text chat. I don't understand how that's a hard concept for Riot

im so confused, each time I play him- I feel so afraid to do anything cause~ it feels like I'm useless and do 0 dmg! What am I doing wrong???!? ('m pretty sure I have runes/build correctly)

LETS GOOO smolder vid for Christmas gift 🎉🎉🥳

This game is the most team reliant game ever and the only way to communicate to ur 30iq inbred teammates is via ping and %90 of the time they either dont understand or dont listen

New video. Good way to end my night.

Dshield and second wind all the way 😎 (Akali main btw lol)

i love you shok!!! <333333333333

“ Even though syndra has lower cooldowns, smolders’ are actually shorter” what does this mean

2:27:15 Q: how do you kep such a strong mental? Shok: I dont have a good mental... lmao straight to the point

Oh video 1 min out, insta click

Is the audio weird or is it just me