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@Necrit2 ай бұрын
I'd like to apologise to Naafiri for mixing up "Traditional Jungler" and "Traditional Assassin". *pets doggo*
@The_Ali_G2 ай бұрын
👍
@tomasduron97442 ай бұрын
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@grenada93472 ай бұрын
The good ending
@gkarak19962 ай бұрын
Smolder is a ranged bruiser. He wants to build AD and Health Bruiser items with a lot of AH. Riot f*ed up.
@sticksstickerson2 ай бұрын
Unsure if you mention it in the video, but Smolder just makes me wish Riot remembered that Corki exists and gave him a mini-rework or anything, because as far as I'm aware he just feels like a Corki but having a combination of two of the most broken parts of League's systems, as much as I might enjoy the idea of all dragon characters having an execute, his is just so...yikes.
@Mediados2 ай бұрын
"Why don't you like me?" "Your mom!" "What?" "We want your mom, not you."
@cuongluuchi42262 ай бұрын
Mhmm....
@emanuelstornello80092 ай бұрын
Oh yeah I do want his mom 😂
@warlis47672 ай бұрын
What does his mom even look like? 😂 Daenerys Targaryen? 😂
@omegaminoseer45392 ай бұрын
Sylas also likes Smolder's Mom. He can literally use her against her own son.
@phelinmelon10072 ай бұрын
Too bad she was fired
@emanuelstornello80092 ай бұрын
Riot perfectly made the representation of an annoying kid to whom you cant do anything while he makes your life hell because he was spoiled by his mom
@TheNotshauna2 ай бұрын
Yeah Smolder is really rocking the nepo baby fantasy
@absolutesquid12682 ай бұрын
Exactly I played against him a few games ago i cant even auto that much he just fucking flies away then punishes me with "MOOOM"
@marquisepixley6842 ай бұрын
You are wrong
@taddeustentakel85982 ай бұрын
@@absolutesquid1268 You my friend are an imposer, ME am the true Taddeus!
@jakobmoiirers_jmoii2 ай бұрын
spot on!
@lucashodges51342 ай бұрын
when it comes to his ult audio, usually you don't actually hear the voiceline, just hear that ungodly screech crying for his mom lol
@dizzyheads2 ай бұрын
I hate it so much
@wnopest2 ай бұрын
This is especially true in pro play. Every replay destroys your ears because of smolder's ult being so loud.
@nugget4yearsago5182 ай бұрын
It tends to be afterwards, which just makes me hate it more for assaulting my ears twice
@jinhunterslay16382 ай бұрын
I play in Japanese dub, and you can actually hear it quite clearly. He would should “HAAA HAAA!” (Mother in Japanese)
@Dhoulmegus2 ай бұрын
I love taking 1/3 of my hp as true damage because he moused over a minion I happened to be located in a 120 degree angle behind.
@Gamer9o2 ай бұрын
Same can happen to you with mf .. and she hits even harder ( ofc its harder to do than smolders AOE version but xD )
@Polareon2 ай бұрын
@@Gamer9o True but atleast MF becomes giga useless
@jimmy_h79112 ай бұрын
@@PolareonTank moment
@spaceglidinmio23882 ай бұрын
@@Gamer9o does mf do true dmg?
@Aleph35752 ай бұрын
@@Gamer9o Does mf have scaling true damage, AOE, or an execute all on one ability as well as having an escape that lets her ignore terrain or an ult that can't be interrupted and heals her if it hits her?
@hadywattar14202 ай бұрын
We have never seen a cool dragon that can speak.... Asol crying in the corner
@themuffinprincesa212 ай бұрын
I feel like the joke he made about it was pretty clear about that lol
@Necrit2 ай бұрын
I'll apologise once he gets wings of stars!
@timojet2 ай бұрын
@@Necrit that would be sooo cool
@ViktorLoR_Mainu2 ай бұрын
Asol is a snake.
@anhuro85582 ай бұрын
I would say Shyvana is even cooler
@andreapetro4202 ай бұрын
200 years of design experience and they couldnt see that an ADC version of Nasus could be op
@horizonblack83512 ай бұрын
Devs team acting blind. Welcome to Riot new champion. They will surely nerf to the ground so that everybody forget about him
@k1nk1ne2 ай бұрын
@@horizonblack8351 ah-ha we just need to wait a few years)
@magnav67972 ай бұрын
I think all adcs should be like smoulder moving forward
@rainerjuurik88682 ай бұрын
@@magnav6797 at that point we can't call those types of champs "adcs" because all they do is just spam their one ability that scales and that's it. Traditional adcs (which Boulder was supposed to be mind you) AA more than anything. Heck even AP Kog auto attacks more than Boulder...
@Morfe022 ай бұрын
More like a Kogmaw with infinite stacks Also the design sucks IS a furry 😂
@lordscorch31672 ай бұрын
6:10 see thats another interesting thing. "players started to *figure out* Smolder". not just that, players started to realize what Smolder *was;* a ADC hyper carry that becomes more likely to win the longer the game goes on/the better the ADC farms. on top of that, his E breaks the golden rule of ADCs: Immobility, allowing him to jump walls without flash and even in the worst case making opponents waste theirs. in Kayle's rework, a "hyper carry that becomes more likely to win the longer the game" was the entire point of her. but she is restricted by *level* instead of a stack mechanic, a difference that has kept her back from being a viable bot laner even in the *current* meta. and its all because of that one difference: Stacks from farming. turns out, making an ADC hyper carry with the limitation of "he is weak early but gets stronger as he farms" make Smolder one of the most impactful ADCs currently, because that *should be* how *all* ADCs work but currently they don't. Smolder is powerful because he was accidentally created to play into how ADCs *should work,* but not how *they currently do.*
@christermonsen56372 ай бұрын
tristana,caitlyn,ezreal,zeri etc etc can all go over walls easily.. and why can't adc's work different, some good early, others midgame and some lategame?
@huntersuper982 ай бұрын
Funny you say this because Smolder pre "adjustments" was best mid game, not late game. His strongest point was right when he hit his 3rd item.
@shuroke2 ай бұрын
Also if you look at the graph for ban rate it started two weeks before the play rate since riot allowed players to ban smolder before his release date
@tonysmith99052 ай бұрын
Not all adcs should be late game monsters. We have some early game and mid game monsters too, like Draven and Lucian. Putting them all into late game scalers is totally boring. Champs should be different from one another in a wide variety of things: role, kit, itemization, and actual in-game goals. There is no rule that says adcs need to be immobile. Lots of adcs have mobility, many with dashes or even teleports. Even movement speed buffs aren't entirely useless as mobility, seen plenty of Dravens and Jhins escape bad situations because they're moving at mach 5. Smolder is powerful because you let him reach his in-game goal. If you're the opposing bot lane your mission is to stomp him into the ground and abuse his weak early game, then proceed to shove your lead down the enemy team's throats and win before one of their win conditions comes online. No, you're not bad if you can't accomplish this. There is no "accident" with Smolder. He is not some magical formula that they happened upon. Every one knew his late game would be strong if he's allowed to get there. That's his entire point. That is NOT the point of adc as a whole.
@sarvashaktimaan71062 ай бұрын
It's honestly mostly the E. It gives too much mobility. Smolder just stands too far away in lane and if anyone tries anything he is already safely under tower, dodgin any skill shots with the ms boost.
@Konstamonsta2 ай бұрын
idk how people thought he was a traditional adc. his entire kit screamed caster from the get go
@P.H6912 ай бұрын
When I heard traditional adc, I thought smolder would have a kit like Caitlyn or Ashe, where your entire gimmick is your auto passive and your abilities only aim to help enhance your ability to auto attack people. No one asked for a ranged caster that chunks your health and executes you for looking at him funny
@alwolfdeadman2 ай бұрын
@@P.H691 agree we already have lux, who can ult every 10 secs dealing 1k ap vaiger levels of damage, for that
@karasutsuki17332 ай бұрын
yes, this is exactly my problem with him too, I wanted a stacking adc finally, awesome, but its not an adc, its a ranged AD caster :(
@xkey_blade95582 ай бұрын
@@P.H691 i mean Ezreal,Corki and Kog Maw are techincal also Traditional all where relased Season 2 and he is more a Champ like these 3 what i like because we hadn´t such ADC a long time ^^.
@karasutsuki17332 ай бұрын
@xkey_blade9558 all of them auto a lot, smolder doesnt that much heck, kogmaw is the definition of autoattack
@corleone66302 ай бұрын
Riot should stop giving execute abilities to every champ
@Soren592 ай бұрын
For real, Asol didn't need it either. How the heck is a scaling execute good game design
@vanhoutastic2 ай бұрын
@@Soren59fast game = more game = more addicts
@Gator7712 ай бұрын
whats wrong with a 6% hp execute that unlocks after 20+ minutes that only procs for 1 champion? if you ever looked at how small the actual execute is you will realize its just glorified collector passive
@Omegeddon2 ай бұрын
@@Gator771 Even then most ppl die out of it so they dont even proc the execute
@EnBelli2 ай бұрын
@@Gator771 playing against champs with an execute is not fun, sure its a low hp% that could mean maybe 1-2 aa or another skill but sometimes that extra bit of health is what lets you get away. It kills the I ran away with 1hp that used to happen before. Now if you are pushed to that low point you are dead even if you could potentially get away you can't your health bar has been nerfed that what ever the execute threshold is. That hp is non existent might as well read a 1 hp but is not and it bothers people well the ones that have to play against the executes specially if they executes give a refresh. I think the true damage is worse than the execute with smolder but it being on a low cd ability does not help its case. Sure as you said needs to build up to it but still people will hate it.
@GateKeeper4502 ай бұрын
"Scalling percent health true damage" Phreak said it is illegal but here we are now
@askyw692 ай бұрын
As a tank main I am so sick of every champ having %hp damage. It's not even an anti-tank thing, it's anti-everyone. More champs should be able to build anti-tank options, either directly with items like lord doms or with exponential scaling in their kit based on a target's HP, like lord dom's. But building anti-tank should be a trade off for most champs, killing a tank and an adc in the same amount of time shouldn't be a thing most champs can do. Vayne and Fiora being some of the few exceptions to that as their kits were designed to shred anyone, rather than it just being a tacked on feature like most of the champs released in the past ~5 years.
@bllllllllackbirdie2 ай бұрын
@@askyw69 also, vayne and fiora kit are build around the %hp true damage and have to do certain things to trigger them (vital and 3hit passive). smolder just has to point click q on a 1 sec cd......
@askyw692 ай бұрын
@@bllllllllackbirdie exactly. I almost want to go through the past 20 new releases and reworks just to see how many have %hp damage somewhere in their kit. It has to be over two thirds of them, most of which will just have it tacked onto a random ability as an afterthought.
@ProcrastinateWGames2 ай бұрын
on a skill that is also AOE... NICE ONE. imagine nasus Q stack damge applied to his E with % health true damge
@blackpearl75962 ай бұрын
*It's not illegal if it's on ad carry*
@eternalgamingforum75622 ай бұрын
Smolder still looks like a april fools joke
@martinkaradjov61532 ай бұрын
they should delete him and apologize and this point
@eternalgamingforum75622 ай бұрын
@@martinkaradjov6153Fully agree, but this thing was created because of more diverse agendas. It will not go.
@Braxtonkai2 ай бұрын
if I wanted this kinda stuff I'd be subscribed to disney+ 🤮
@eternalgamingforum75622 ай бұрын
@@BraxtonkaiBetter get used to this shit or vote with your wallet and stop supporting woke stuff
@julianholler75052 ай бұрын
@@eternalgamingforum7562Bro its a cartoon dragon how do you get woke from this?
@Andrew-tj8pr2 ай бұрын
first straight up dragon champ and they made him a prepubescent teen who makes "my mom works at riot" jokes. give us a young dragon, sure, but make him fucking cool
@TarsonTalon2 ай бұрын
Spyro is a good dragon, but I can easily imagine him giving this kid a swirly.
@oui71712 ай бұрын
Scalling percent health true damage, that's a little bit illegal hahaha
@MiiMavis2 ай бұрын
remember kindred old passive? with the on hit (not true damage)
@rastkostankovic29642 ай бұрын
Insert Phreaks comment on pre rework k'santes passive that scaled on hes bonus %hp wich would be funneled into hes All Out true dmg coversion that delt % hp physical in base,and that same amount of % hp as true dmg in all out."A bit illegal" . Classic flipfloping from riot
@dizzyheads2 ай бұрын
@@rastkostankovic2964 How else is he going to get to masters
@rastkostankovic29642 ай бұрын
@@dizzyheads Holy 💀💀💀
@Truest-Repairman2 ай бұрын
Then, when he gets Elder Dragon buff on top of his the Elder Dragon buff literally included in his kit, you either go next, or watch as he gets literally 20 kills every 5 minutes.
@GalaxyCharizard832 ай бұрын
If you want another crazy stat, people looked at how quickly Smolder got up to the amount of Pentakills he has in pro games which was around 24 at the current moment (possibly more). To compare how fast he got those Pentakills, it took Zeri triple the amount of time to get 20-ish or so Pentakills than Smolder.
@phoenixflamegames12 ай бұрын
Kaisa, being the second fastest and the dominating adc in proplay for like 2 years, got that amount in like a few hundred games. Let that sink in rq.
@E1barto2122 ай бұрын
I mean, if you look at his kit it should be very obvious he'll be a Penta machine. He WILL reach 225 (it's competitive so it's slower), the team actually play around their ADC (allows him to get damage out in fights, and he literally executes from ally damage getting enemies below the threshold! If he has dealt damage within 3 seconds from a massive AoE spammable ability that deals % Max True Damage from a burn.
@einjharrelraca2 ай бұрын
to be fair. some champions are better at pentakills than others. Shadow assassin kayn for example is dog shit after 2 targets. malzahaar is poop after 1 target. no one is going to say that katarina is stronger than yone just because she gets more penta's than him on average.
@sunnyhvar19922 ай бұрын
I mean for Smolder, a pentakill is any fight in which his team kills all five enemies, like it or not, that's just kinda how he's designed
@cytrussToo2 ай бұрын
I love how at 4:20 you censored the rest of the graph to emphasize the point you were making, only for that same graph to have been fully visible two seconds earlier xD
@christoskoukas88562 ай бұрын
Haha, Naafiri looks so much like a jungler that even Necrit thought it was her intended role. No, she was supposed to be a midlaner from release, never anything to do with the jungle.
@ToasteBlade2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I was surprised he said that. She even has balancing to keep her out of the jungle because her minions suck against jg champs
@ChucktheSpicyChicken2 ай бұрын
Rito: this is naafiri, queen of the jungle! LoL community: nice! So she's a jungler right? Rito: ... LoL community: she's a jungler right?
@Nek-oski2 ай бұрын
IKR, where did that jungle idea come from, she was intended to be a roaming midlaner assasin like Zed, Talon etc.
@Aleph35752 ай бұрын
@@ChucktheSpicyChicken lol literally the first game I ever played as Naafiri I played her jungle because I thought she was a jungler.
@scraps14502 ай бұрын
@@Nek-oski It's sad because those two are ALSO good junglers that riot gave improved monster damage ratios to, Riot specifically nerfing Naafari jungle clear is so odd
@uberneanderthal2 ай бұрын
"at first people didn't dig his visual appeal" and at second. and third, and fourth. he's so obnoxiously cutesy he makes Teemo look rugged.
@123hattan2 ай бұрын
Teemo is cute, but it works out because you can see he is a guerilla manace. The cute look is just deceiving from his war crimes. Smolder is just a kid that accidentally ended in a battlefield.
@Vickiraytive2 ай бұрын
@@123hattan I still can't get over the fact that Teemo literally knocks you out with a dart in Bandle Tale lmfao
@nikenit2 ай бұрын
@@123hattanSame with Millio, he also looks just like a kid who somehow got into league. Hwei also looks incredibly out of place. Nilah, Ksante and Naafiri also look like they were made by a completely different art team. The only champion released after BelVeth that looks even remotely close to the original league artstyle and tone is Briar. Everyone else look like something from a Chinese knockoff game. Considering the financial state the league is in (or Riot games in general, not just league), it may not be far from the truth.
@kuzan_aokiji2 ай бұрын
teemo player here and I hate smolders so much jesus
@sir_aizen2 ай бұрын
Omega Squad Teemo agrees
@davidens12162 ай бұрын
An ADC with ad-ap kit, with a dash which goes over walls, infinite scaling, a slow on Q and an uncanny look.... Yea bro it was supposed to be a SURE HIT... to the permaban
@lightworker29562 ай бұрын
Yeah, the scaling % true damage is insane, and on top of that he has a bunch of stuff added on top that really doesn't need to be there, such as an execute and a slow and the ability to jump over terrain.
@bright5542 ай бұрын
I like how Necrit hides smolder's popularity but it's visible in previous shot
@guilhermeborges68532 ай бұрын
Naafiri was made from the beginning to be used in the mid, and perhaps as an off role jungler
@Loliston2 ай бұрын
Thank you, it really bothers me when Necrit dosen't check his assumptions
@valeriaarecar47612 ай бұрын
Fr, people just wanted to play her really bad in jg just because she is a dog when Rioters kept saying she was a mid/top champ
@devinjacquet52532 ай бұрын
I'ma have to check the post because I do not know this to be true.
@shenpai_ren2 ай бұрын
I do indeed hate smolder as well
@arcanacoltic9712 ай бұрын
Always hated him as well.
@ConfusedOwl922 ай бұрын
Yes
@rogerarayasaborio5492 ай бұрын
No More than I hate myself.
@ianestevez65702 ай бұрын
Relatable content
@minnieoutsangmidyeon2 ай бұрын
Necrit: We've had champions at 60% in the past. Me: Looks at Samira
@123hattan2 ай бұрын
Seraphine
@danielramsey79102 ай бұрын
ah yes, satan@@123hattan
@BoopaKing2 ай бұрын
I remember the days of Kassawin. Fun times.
@TheOctoJon2 ай бұрын
Laughs in release leblanc!
@VaIinar2 ай бұрын
Bro knew what he was doing when he put the uncanny smolder face on the thumnnail
@mikon-2 ай бұрын
This could've been a Shyvana Rework... instead we got bootleg Charizard.
@sticksstickerson2 ай бұрын
Or just a Corki rework because thats more to what he's like than anything
@SangoProductions2132 ай бұрын
@@sticksstickerson oooo. That's an idea.
@marquisepixley6842 ай бұрын
I disagree with you
@markg22942 ай бұрын
Not even. More like dollar general Spyro the dragon.
@catodes1295Ай бұрын
@@markg2294 And Spyro looks better than than him lol
@WOLF_WRLD2 ай бұрын
It's literally a mini elder when he get his last scale form
@auroradavar10582 ай бұрын
I get this criticism but it takes almost all game to get the stacks. It should not be a scaling execute but this one is starting to feel like getting mad at a 400 stack veigar for 1 shotting somebody.
@OPGardevoir2 ай бұрын
@@auroradavar1058 No. He only has to q farm until 20 minutes which gets increasingly easier because it gains aoe and bigger aoe overtime. Veigar only gets 2 stacks max per q so it takes a lot longer for him to reach a threatening point. Also not to mention you are comparing Veigar ult a single target nuke with a long cd to smolder q an aoe max health percent scaling true damage burn execute on a 1 second cd. You're coping
@sneakythief2982 ай бұрын
@@auroradavar1058 even more funny when you kill 60% of their team with 1 W.
@magical5712 ай бұрын
@@OPGardevoir Not to mention veigar's q gets body blocked. Smolder's is targetted, so it's pretty braindead to stack them. And veigar doesn't have any form of evassion, while smolder does.
@trafalgarlaw83732 ай бұрын
But veigar has a 2.5 second stun, and he gets 5 stacks for a takedown@@magical571
@atoucangirl2 ай бұрын
just this once, i feel extremely vindicated. when he was released people were like "finally a simple kit, like the good ol' days". as it turns out, a champion can be simple AND infuriating and unbalanced. because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how the abilities actually work, %hp true damage and infinite stacking sucks on its own (especially on a fucking ADC), and just proves my point that Nasus would be beyond despised if he was released today.
@magical5712 ай бұрын
THIS. I never enjoyed how much push the whole "make all new champions simple, 200 years aphelios meme" train got. Easy champions are meant from their very design to be around or above 51% winrate, not even just my opinion, but explicitely how riot balances, they repeat it all the time on patch note and dev insights.- And it makes sense, a hard champion will lose more due to their higher floor, but good players will reach their higher ceiling too, so naturally they will, overal, have a lower winrate but be perfectly balanced there as those who stick with it will reach a higher potential. Easy champions on the other hand, if they aren't winning more than half of their games, they are failing basically, no point in picking them besides personal bias. Nothing to master there, the whole point is for them to be easy and reliable, and the gap between a new player and a master at the champion gets diminished greatly (it will come down more and more to the macro of each player, which applies to every match and champion ever basically, so easy champions just "erase" an aspect of the match up). So easy champions are by design meant to, surprinsingly i know, easily kick your butt. And when you lose to an easy champion, well, it doesn't feel truly earned, it makes you question why even bother with a harder champion. Why not just point and click, have safety, long range poke, free scaling etc. Of course it's gonna get obnoxious the more of these champs there are. And since they are simple, they rely much more on number changes for their balance, and player mastery plays a way smaller role, so again, they need to be consistently winning or there is no point to them. easy champions are an obnoxious paradox. A complicated champ, if they overperform, they can have mechanics removed, changed, adjusted, and people will find much more wiggle room to adapt and play with a different strategy, a simple champion? not so much. it's way more of a "punch harder" "live longer" straight line.
@RetroCube2 ай бұрын
Nasus is nowhere near comparable. Dude falls off late game even with an infinite stacking mechanic with how much power creep has happened over the years.
@NotAnAmerican2 ай бұрын
Nasus today would have a dash like jax q
@atoucangirl2 ай бұрын
@@NotAnAmerican my entire point is that Nasus would be hated if he wasn't an old champion people are nostalgic for and think is well-designed. he's a polarizing mess with no counterplay and one of the most boring laning phases if you're against him.
@huntersuper982 ай бұрын
@@atoucangirl Smolder only became this because of the "adjustments" that really turned out to be a buff across the board. The champ was completely fine pre-buffs once people figured him out.
@koreanbbq23762 ай бұрын
the fact that smolder had a 49% winrate on release astounds me considering every game I played whoevers team he was on was the losing team.
@ReptarKingOfMeat2 ай бұрын
Yeah, I don't have a problem against him usually. His bubble is slow and easy to dodge, his ult is predictable and also easy to walk out of in most cases. If I see a smolder doing good it's because of his support or jungler.
@koreanbbq23762 ай бұрын
@ReptarKingOfMeat Every smolder I've seen has sub 200 stacks in a 30 minute game so idk about that. They just suck as players in anything emerald or below
@Braxtonkai2 ай бұрын
because people were playing him as an adc on release. Then others started to build/play him like a mage or with tank items
@ReptarKingOfMeat2 ай бұрын
@@Braxtonkai I've played against him top and mid with no issue either. He either gets ahead by jungle/support perma ganking, being in another lane getting fed by a teammate or he snags some kills after laning phase in a team fight and snowballs.
@chadhardt61362 ай бұрын
this whole character feels like something out of retail world of warcraft
@BASSFZz2 ай бұрын
Does he? I don’t know if I agree with that one. Lol
@odlfmariner4702 ай бұрын
@@BASSFZz imo he does
@jonihonkala11932 ай бұрын
Alextrazsa nuking rito universe.
@oliverbehrer52522 ай бұрын
A new ad carry style champ that is a balance nightmare i wonder how many times this is now
@P.H6912 ай бұрын
Take a shot for every time riot tried to fix an adc champ and instead makes them worse. I guarantee you won’t be able to walk right
@phoenixflamegames12 ай бұрын
@@P.H691I guarantee you you need a hospital visit with zeri alone😂
@brunosouza38672 ай бұрын
Adc's are not allowed to have any different mechanics as samira, zeri, aphelios, poke kai'sa. And the soloQ is not the problem, beacuse must of the time this champs have poor wr, with smolder being a exeption, most people just dont like adcs doing different things. The real problem is pro play, because it look like anything that is not a normal adc becomes mega broken in pro league, as if the normal adc are just shit champions.
@MR0KITTY2 ай бұрын
7:49 Have they never played Ashe? Every five seconds she's complaining about poverty.
@markfarmer75342 ай бұрын
"He's almost like Xerath with an escape" gave me PTSD flashbacks, but if it were real, it'd give me 1 billion LP
@yebutmynameiskyle2 ай бұрын
This champion was designed as a mage I don't care what Riot says. Everything about him is a mage caster.
@briannguyen62482 ай бұрын
Which is why I enjoy playing him as adc lol
@TzrcWolf_2 ай бұрын
Which is why it fucking sucks that he can take advantage of AD abilities that give him healing and escape.
@Capta1n4mer1ca2 ай бұрын
@tzrcwolf6285 Acting like AD abilities are OP 😂 you realise smolders abilities deal basically no dmg? He lives off his true dmg and execute. Complaining about ad abilities is absolutely hilarious with the amount of armour there is in the game. There's a reason you can build 1000 ap but only max out at about 400 AD. Cos its meant for auto attacks. Since he doesn't auto, having his abilities do AD dmg is a disadvantage
@deadbeats56402 ай бұрын
@@Capta1n4mer1caad casters are a thing. Yorick and illaoi are prob the biggest 2 I can think of. The problem was his stacks and true damage but the recent changes do make him more item oriented then stacks and that just made him even more insufferable let alone his voice lines being comparable to fizz.
@tonysmith99052 ай бұрын
@@deadbeats5640 Yorick isn't really an AD caster though. All of his damage comes from auto attacks, whether they're his or his ghouls. Renekton, Riven, Lee Sin, most assassins. These are AD casters.
@Oscar97o2 ай бұрын
Naafiri was always meant to be a midlaner.
@oliverbehrer52522 ай бұрын
True but even when she was a jungler i would still play her mid
@MojijojiMiho2 ай бұрын
Yes. But her design is not something you expect from a midlaner. Her design is not midlaner.
@drakinathehuman2 ай бұрын
Support all the way because everyone needs a dogo companion
@emanuelstornello80092 ай бұрын
No she is supposed to be a jungler because riot hates roaming, unless the botlane does it
@spivotz2 ай бұрын
@@MojijojiMiho Her design is 100% midlane lmao
@tahjjoseph75472 ай бұрын
Bans Smolder: "What did I do !?" "U became an AD MAGE and upset the balance but Ur a dragon and I play u later."
@shadownight99562 ай бұрын
Until S7 we had only to worry about vayne but nowadays i am seeing those white bars are longer than my future😢😢
@wlnlax142 ай бұрын
Too safe and too present in every lane
@Larky902 ай бұрын
this Ive seen him in all the content creators videos across multiple ranks, played in every lane building anything and doing atleast decent, which is not okay... We dont really need other champs if they keep pumping out champs who can be played in every role. Just unlock the one for all game mode and lock everyone in as smoulder lol
@Re1dy2 ай бұрын
Naafiri was meant to be assassin midlaner
@martinkaradjov61532 ай бұрын
he is
@xy24472 ай бұрын
you could especially notice his "long range bullshit" on urf
@xaedris2 ай бұрын
"The only peace i seek is death" of this cursed poorly designed baby faced over powered discount spyro.
@TarsonTalon2 ай бұрын
Spyro could give Smolder a swirly, and he wouldn't lose his good-guy reputation.
@basmaagr2 ай бұрын
I'm just sad his mom doesn't work for riot anymore
@Ronan-ht6jc2 ай бұрын
Nah bro, between this and Ksante, Rito did everyone a favor by firing her
@deadbeats56402 ай бұрын
The prob is she was one of the main people working on the skarner rework. So he’s prob broken on release or hard to balance.
@giulioceresini14352 ай бұрын
Which is great new. Smolder charcter design makes you throw up when you even glance at him. I am baffled how anyone would greenlight that shit.
@nikolastamatov72552 ай бұрын
They'll never do that but the smolder q problem can easaly be fixed by them just removing the stacks and tiying it to lvs like kayle. lv 6 its aoe lv 11 splash zone lv 16 execute (based off ad not stacks). If they make those changes theyll just need to fine tune some numbers and smolder will be in a ok spot as a champion but it'll never happen cuz riot is alergic to admiting mistakes
@danielfernandezromero682 ай бұрын
If you tie it to his levels he can't be played as an ADC
@Kwabsii2 ай бұрын
Great idea - make a champion that is intended to be played in a duo lane level reliant. Top laners surely will be happy if Smolder players go there to not be 2-3 levels behind.
@phoenixflamegames12 ай бұрын
@@danielfernandezromero68this is the problem sadly…
@mandoole2 ай бұрын
But that's still so.op
@navyblue18652 ай бұрын
nah, they just want to play Cait-Ezreal-Kaisa all games😔🙏🏿
@funloop2 ай бұрын
The way i see it, it was basically what the second comment said. Honestly, if he didn't have that E ability then i suspect that he wouldn't be that bad. Also, this feels weird that a new champion is still being talked about in a general term since most new champs get forgotten pretty quickly, especially when it isn't about their skins
@Braxtonkai2 ай бұрын
Rito hitting their late Blizzard arc
@tomasdolezan41482 ай бұрын
I think changing his Q to skillshot like Veigar got would make him little more fair, because at this point he has one skill that does insane dmg and you cant dodge it
@OCovilDoMarcos2 ай бұрын
that'd make it even stronger tho, because now he'd be able to kite back way more efficiently and safely. Just look at ezreal and how strong he is at chasing and kiting back because he can just throw skills instead of having to auto attack.
@ed765super2 ай бұрын
I was wondering where all this came from. I only ever really play events. I was lile "heartstone smolder is a little annoying, but he seems fine"
@paradoxwraith52752 ай бұрын
Should have added his mom.
@Dinglix2 ай бұрын
make never surrender a setting that can be checked by anyone, that makes it so the surrender popup never show up, if they want to surrender, they can go into the setting and uncheck it so next time the popup will show
@Khichira20122 ай бұрын
Well done necrit, it's nice to see these kinds of videos!
@amyw56912 ай бұрын
deathwing appreciation in 2024
@sayjii2 ай бұрын
4:17 shows it then proceeds to hide it just to show it again
@goldenboy56932 ай бұрын
the french "Mooom !" he says has to be the biggest Nerdy eerm akshually voice i have ever heard in my entire life
@LUNAT1C._2 ай бұрын
I love watching your vids baked as hell man also I alone am responsible for atleast 57% in that Smolder banrate chart
@WholesomeVolibear2 ай бұрын
Me a wild rift player watching this video: hmmm yes he sounds like a problem
@tedddenzel67692 ай бұрын
lmao same bro
@WholesomeVolibear2 ай бұрын
@@tedddenzel6769 😂
@holloworeo22332 ай бұрын
Same lol
@ZzShy2 ай бұрын
The other main issue which I never see anyone notice is that the ADC role only ever has a handful of good champs that fit the role, every other role has 10+ Meta champs at a time while ADC rarely even has 5, so pick rates for ADCs tend to be super inflated, just look at the top 10 most played champs at any time and at least 6 or 7 of them, and often even more, are ADCs
@skeley67762 ай бұрын
ADC mains literally cried last time we made something that isnt a adc meta remember vlad adc and how Rekkles and other adcs cried and RIOT quickly nerfed it. Meanwhile Jg has every class in the game and we had Ezreal Jg... So tldr ADC mains are the reason why the ADC line up is so boring.
@hello_mr.yomi66272 ай бұрын
@@skeley6776 The Duality of adcs People say adc is useless People say ADC is overpowered
@MalevolentDivinity2 ай бұрын
@@hello_mr.yomi6627 And I say they're terribly designed, toxic, and boring.
@hello_mr.yomi66272 ай бұрын
@@MalevolentDivinity I think the biggest problem with ADC is that a lot of them can be a mage as well because the have small AP scaling Obviously there are some that are balanced like Ezreal and twitch But the whole point of an ADC is for them to be a hypercarry with the drawback of being very squishy and reliant on other teammates but there are a few adcs that break that mold and become absolutely overpowered
@MalevolentDivinity2 ай бұрын
@@hello_mr.yomi6627 No, that's the theoretical point of a character like Kayle or Karthus. Ranged AD's just scale off three multiplicative stats that only really work on autoattacks, causing them all to basically play the exact same way and have idiotic scaling that makes them suck midgame while being wildly overpowered lategame. It's shit design, and the game would be better off if they deleted crit.
@chaseclason66082 ай бұрын
Love the videos! You should hang the script near the camera so it looks like youre speaking to us while reading. Keep up the great work
@snieddjamal46492 ай бұрын
Video about smolder Everyone: naafiri 🤓
@ISituationHD2 ай бұрын
2:14 ??? "We never once advertised her as a jungler. We consistently and quite strongly communicated she was a mid lander many times" Riot
@undyne12 ай бұрын
I can't be the only one who swears Naafiri and a few other champs were meant to be junglers before release, due to teasers.
@amandaslough1252 ай бұрын
Naafiri was announced to be a midlaner though.
@sgtspring36632 ай бұрын
All my homies hate Smolder.
@sarvashaktimaan71062 ай бұрын
If they remove the execute and heavily nerf E mobility he would be fine. The biggest issue is that he is a late game hyper carry that completely 1v9s if he gets to late but also has incredible escape because of his range + E.
@Lostenoch2 ай бұрын
Free execute, slow, escape and the playstyle of sit on the back lines shoot out giant fireball durring teamfight then run away as your teams deals the dmg/ dies.
@colossaldonut51902 ай бұрын
Riot's latest disaster and the champion is meant to be simple. I don't understand how they fucked up this bad in all honesty.
@merok42912 ай бұрын
I mean he is simple. Simple+overtuned+garbage design both kit and character vise=Smolder
@magical5712 ай бұрын
simple champions will always be above average in win rate, they are meant to. Smolder is overtuned for sure, but this is the kind of shit you ask for when screaming for simple champs. Don't believe me, listen to riot's patchnotes or dev insight. If a simple champ isn't on average winning around or more than 52% of their matches, they are failing by nature of their simplicity. They exist to win reliable and easily. No niche trick, no nothing. They win, or they fail by concept.
@skeley67762 ай бұрын
@@magical571 if their pick rate is low that could be true but Smolders pickrate is insane he should be 47% maybe 48% wr + he is pretty much a must pick in Pro.
@GigaLigma2 ай бұрын
They should take all the annoying parts of his kit out (like the execute on Q) and make it so for his ult, he temporarily switches places with his mom who has all the passive upgrades instead of him. Like a ranged Shyvana ult. Give people the dragon they wanted and balance it by tying it to the duration of an ultimate. They could make his mom more of an auto attacker too while keeping Smolder himself as more of a siege caster.
@lebalduino2 ай бұрын
Pls don't. If you want to make something similar to Shyv, use it on her rework. Make something different with him. A lot different
@GigaLigma2 ай бұрын
@@lebalduino It wouldn't be that similar because Shyv is still a melee champion and not a ranged siege/ADC champion. The only similarity is the concept of a transformation ultimate, which is by no means a signature to Shyvana as there are plenty of transformation champions in the game already. Moreover, the transformation would be nothing like Shyvana's since it would just be upgraded Smolder. And like it or not, Smolder is already thematically similar to Shyvana. You may as well just accept that instead of rejecting a way to make the champion better because it's "too similar" to something else. I'd rather him be similar to Shyvana than similar to Asol like he currently is.
@tonysmith99052 ай бұрын
"keeping Smolder himself as more of a siege caster." He's not a sieger though, he doesn't have the range for it on his best ability. Caitlyn and Ashe and Kog are siegers. Smolder is not.
@GigaLigma2 ай бұрын
@@tonysmith9905 Smolder's Q hitbox becomes longer than the primary abilities of the champions you mentioned actually, making it easily cover an entire minion wave as well as any champions behind it just by hitting one of the melee minions in the front; not to mention Rapid Firecannon, one of his statistically best and most popular items, increases its cast range further. As for his W, it's just longer range to begin with. If you think Smolder's range is low, you must be really bad at bouncing his upgraded Q off closer targets to hit further-away ones. Think of it like Miss Fortune's Q except aoe and significantly harder for people to dodge. And aside from that, long attack range is not the sole definition of a sieger. Waveclear is just as important to this role so that you can destroy enemy minion waves and build up your own minions, and there's almost nothing in the game that has better waveclear than Smolder once he's upgraded.
@CrescentWolves2 ай бұрын
My problem is that as a support main. Even if I engage him good he can just E away after the CC and be safe again and punish. Then ofc you eventually reach the point where he has enough stacks to just carry and you can't do anything against him anymore.
@Nevermind4452 ай бұрын
I kept playing smolder a lot because to me it seemed like his kit wasn't figured out yet, like you could play him in more ways than the average player did. The fact I got to 'cook' whenever I played him was really fun to me. What gave him this versatility was the fact he didn't really rely on items. Your power spikes were your stack milestones. This kind of makes it so you can build anything on him
@ponglenis92732 ай бұрын
People have forgotten how the pre reverted rework kogmaw was. Smolder is nothing compared to 5.0 AS on a 10 seconds cd with the press of a button combined with mixed damage.
@Aris-zw5lj2 ай бұрын
Exactly, a fucking kog or Twitch late games completely annihilate smolder's DMG and teamfight potential
@RaulHernandez-fn9zl2 ай бұрын
I also do indeed hate smolder
@bencebakoczi64682 ай бұрын
Easy to pick up, infinite scaling, can be played as on hit against low range enemies, can farm with spells like Ezreal. You play a different style almost every game. Sometimes you are just fed and enjoy the item lead and if you were to lose lane, you try to survive till late. I haven't played the champ but it has so many options, ofc many people want to play him.
@runeserpent14492 ай бұрын
He’s also so resident sleeper watching In pro play, enemy team tries to dive him and he just ults the wave and they got nothing. Can even fly off the freaking map to stall longer
@argumentumadhominem39772 ай бұрын
Pro play is Resident sleeper in general.
@bthsr71132 ай бұрын
I hate Smolder for making Shyvana even less likely to get attention for lore and a visual overhaul.
@Disambiguous2 ай бұрын
She's already been confirmed as next visual update after skarner
@PerfectZeroMusic_2 ай бұрын
I love the spoiler block when you can literally see the popularity history in the exact previous screen xD
@QuocHuyTa-wl4sg2 ай бұрын
Easy fix. Just add 1 passive that all the passive now became ready stage, that's mean that he have to auto atack to active his passive or it'll only deal normal dmg. But the Q is the way around, Q will start his ready stage and auto does the passive and no longer stack when hiting enemy champion but only when you kill them during the ready stage. Use W, E or R will end the ready stage.
@frenchi02 ай бұрын
my life flashed before my eyes after seeing Naafiri release date
@deejayf692 ай бұрын
I mean, low key, Smolder is so fortunate to have the circumstances line up for him. If I were a champion I'd rather be ded than building crit in the current season. I want this return to classic Smolder that weaves in auto attacks, but dear god, are crit items terrible.
@yasugoi122 ай бұрын
I think the only reason why Zeri's play rate was consistent was because the bottom lane only has fewer champs unlike other roles, and in Slmorder's case, adc players got tired of kiting in every other auto attack.
@pettermiranda46512 ай бұрын
His E should scale with atk speed, and maybe his Q should auto reset, but that part would mean some of his numbers would have to go down drastically
@AngryShark1052 ай бұрын
The thing is that every new Champions in the league now is SAME Faces & bad Lore, the art of the models of each skins are like the same position, they are pretty bad now no kidding. Looks A. I
@xxred_riot102 ай бұрын
Well its true though the new champions are kinda sucks
@romainrondeau42422 ай бұрын
Yeah when you've got Smolder+Millio in comp they have the same face.
@Hajsa9992 ай бұрын
He scales in game, he also scales in meta. Thats why charts go up haha
@gingeroxide29732 ай бұрын
It being 8 years since an adc got released that wasn't overly complicated, lived on a knifes edge, or got gutted because of pro play has certainly influenced play rate.
@animalxing86972 ай бұрын
If Riot literally just replaced Smolder with Spyro the Dragon, and reworked his snot bubble into actual fire breath, that would fix 90% of the problem
@Braxtonkai2 ай бұрын
smolder is akin to dragons as edward cullen is akin to vampires
@animalxing86972 ай бұрын
@@Braxtonkai nice profile pic
@Braxtonkai2 ай бұрын
@@animalxing8697 haha you too
@rosestemss2 ай бұрын
"we have never had a cool dragon that can actually speak human" Aurelion Sol: Am I a joke to you???
@magical5712 ай бұрын
that was the intended irony
@alexcat66852 ай бұрын
@@magical571 and he's a god who takes the form of a dragon not is.
@gedaun43452 ай бұрын
I appreciated the goat story joke, even tho no one other than the Czechs got it.
@zsomeone89212 ай бұрын
He's popular judt becouse they add the most powerful things to an adc , the infinite scaling, and they remove the most difficult mechanics to an adc, the kiting
@dreamweaver41832 ай бұрын
They fr just had to add a Zoe part 2
@urielmarles70362 ай бұрын
zoe? what does smolder have to do with zoe? XD. Their design problems are quite different.
@phoenixflamegames12 ай бұрын
@@urielmarles7036they’re aiming at the cutesy design.
@merok42912 ай бұрын
@@urielmarles7036 Disney characters.....Same as lillia "vomits"
@wanyshu16712 ай бұрын
Hasn't that always been the case? Why not play Dota, last time I checked they weren't scared to have a champ be ugly.
@meow-24112 ай бұрын
All i can say is watch T1 vs NS game 2 😅
@anormaluser57502 ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure part of the high ban rate is exactly bc he is either extremely OP or extremely useless, and you don't know if the OP Smolder is gonna be on the enemy team or if the useless smolder is gonna be in the ally team, it's annoying both ways
@bingh43092 ай бұрын
Bro, I swear half of those bans are my teammates banning him when I hover him...
@tjschewy2 ай бұрын
I love Smolder! He's just a little dude don't bully him! D:
@cayoticsgaming23282 ай бұрын
I love when ever i ban smolder he asks "What did I do?" And i reflexively say you were born XD
@TheDragonshunter2 ай бұрын
Because the only way to make an adc good is making it broken because normally tanks with full tank items do more damage...
@Noah_Morrieh2 ай бұрын
Damn you must be really bad
@janablom8232 ай бұрын
If radiant virtue was still in the game Varus would be 54% winrate right next to kog maw. The issue is dmg being way too high, so the good AD carries are the ones who can build tanky or have insane range.
@Broestablette2 ай бұрын
People don't ban new champs because they don't know how to play against them. They ban them because their teammates don't know how to play them, yet still pick them
@BoneWalker2 ай бұрын
8:50 Riot laying out their intentions and them never being true? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
@tartipouss2 ай бұрын
I like how everyone first thought his Q would be a skillshot like Ezreal's Q... and then it turned out to be a point and click ability and it was just so disappointing
@Dr.Junk.2 ай бұрын
Love the win before 30 min or you auto lose design. Love the perma elder buff, very fun to play vs
@murillomesmo81892 ай бұрын
I just came back to ocasionally playing league on the weekends two weeks ago, mostly aram or quick qeueq with friends. Still didnt see a single smolder, thank god. I still have everything about his existance I know of so far (visual design, voice lines, the whole character concept), imagine if I was playing against him them
@Khalys.2 ай бұрын
I love this channel, keep it up bro
@urbanrip74772 ай бұрын
they really combined just combined the best parts of asol and ezreal
@MrDuck-vn2fs2 ай бұрын
I had a game where me and my friend were two heavily fed melee champs. Problem was they had a smolder who was remotely fed and the game went on for 50+ minutes because his whole team would peel for him and his Q would just zone us out from inhibs and shit.
@dorians21382 ай бұрын
Just make his E thingies scale with attack speed, and give him some sort of attack effect, for example his w marks people with dragon snot and his attacks deal more damage to them and done. He'd be building attack speed and be played like an ADC
@warzone8222 ай бұрын
He even sucks to have on your team, cause you're never getting a kill near him once he gets the execute PASSIVE.