Smolder, but I build full lethality and my spells one shot you (WTF IS THAT DAMAGE?)

Smolder, but I build full lethality and my spells one shot you (WTF IS THAT DAMAGE?)
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[@ser7002]

For those who didn't know, you can check if Warwick used his W to track you or if its his passive. If its his W the debuff on your screen ticks down but if its his passive it doesn't.

[@dragomanbg]

Or also depending if you are lower than 50% hp. Or do you mean if are far away from him? 😮

[@Sinzari]

I mean, if you're under half hp his passive tracks you and if you're over it has to be his W, you don't need to check the debuff.

[@luckas221a]

@@Sinzari if he activated the W , it marks you and you’re under half HP, you can still check if W is active through this

[@KingTaltia]

@@Sinzari active W gives Warwick the passive component no matter the hp (move/atk speed) and buff it to 250% of it's value, so it's valuable to know if it's on/off/onCD/offCD.

[@OneHellofaDragon]

Is it not obvious because you'll be below 50% hp?

[@shinonomehakase2298]

I just had an 80 minute game as Smolder yesterday. One on our team rage quit. Two on enemy team rage quit. 4v3, and one of them was also Smolder. By the end, each of us executed at around 20% max HP (around 800 stacks)

[@youtubealt243]

Does it work with elder? Like let’s say you had elder and 800 stacks, would it execute at 40% instead of 20%?

[@AppleberryOjisan]

Probably doesn't stack. I think the one with the highest threshold activates first.@@youtubealt243

[@mop-kun2381]

@@youtubealt243 it doesnt stack, similar to The Collector, it will just execute at the higher value, if both are 20% then it will just execute at 20%

[@nahrikkon8355]

@@mop-kun2381asol e execute stacks with eldar

[@shinonomehakase2298]

@@ameliezhou8887 We did. Reason it took so long is because we were losing the whole game lol

[@mryous2543]

Now we just need the runaans with tiamat and zwag has done all the videos with smolder

[@kyleberts]

“Did Zwag Xerath get the first 6 CS?” Yes, he got all 6!! Win Streak: 2

[@DespotEtImperator]

He even got the next 6, I'd give him a double her3 fam

[@LOLKING-gi9wl]

Kyle what would the world do without you. Thank you for always being in every video without fail.

[@zacscudder8119]

Scrolled down specifically to see if you still do this. Respect the dedication

[@kyleberts]

@@zacscudder8119 🫡

[@kyleberts]

@@LOLKING-gi9wl

[@Crescendobro]

So Illaoi R already spawns tentacles that aren't attached to walls so I can't see why they wouldn't be able to adapt that to let her tentacles spawn in lanes without nearby walls since most of the lanes got a lot wider

[@beziik2357]

They could very well have her abilities spawn tentacles Yorick style. After all, a big part of her harassing power was using E in-between two tentacles, but now you can't cause one or even both of them don't reach far enough. It's kinda funny

[@Crescendobro]

@@beziik2357 the main issue with spawning Yorick style is his spawn on minion deaths and she has more AOE vs him so she can wipe out the casters with Q for like an instant tentacle. Zyra’s passive seeds would be more balanced

[@bigmeatpete69420]

That karma + maglinance build is strong af especially with new supp items

[@aidanvallee1458]

does maglinance work on ryze do you know?

[@bigmeatpete69420]

@aidanvallee1458 does his portal effect enemy champions? I don't think so

[@angbinh2043]

​@@bigmeatpete69420 Wait does the portal teleport the enemy ?

[@bigmeatpete69420]

@@angbinh2043 I haven't play4d league of legends in like 8 years so I'm gonna say yes

[@Morigren]

No only ally champions and ally minions@@angbinh2043

[@foxmaster1123]

Rapid fire cannon actually extends the range of your Q, so this build was cooking especially with the lethality slow item

[@Tuyangtudai]

@4:40 kinda easy fix to illaoi is to make her tentacles spawn not at the wall only but on the ground too (like when u ulti) they still can only spawn in a fixed distance from each othe.

[@AmyntaEU]

How do I get the "+ Stack" to display if I kill a minion e,t,c? Can't find anything in the options.

[@fynnion7253]

Hey Zwag. How do you get the notifcation of +1 Stack when lasthitting with ur q? I looked through the settings and cant find it?!

[@DJMcRey]

They really have to do something with his e either on-hit triggering or attack speed after landing just anything

[@Crescendobro]

if they buffed the range of the E shots it would probably make it feel better, also if they front load the damage like Ahri W

[@RomGomLP]

I dont think they have to lol, its meant to be a movement ability

[@DJMcRey]

@@RomGomLP the problem is that its a bad movement ability in terms of duration and since it doesnt have a Mini dash before flight its worse then others like corki w schmolder is already pretty 1 Button like with his q would Just love the Other spells to be usefull and fun to use aswell even if it Comes at the Cost of a worse q. 1 Button delete Champs got removed for a reason and they gotta tweek it no matter what ^^

[@Crescendobro]

@@RomGomLP spells can fulfil dual purposes, look at Ahri W when they added the MS boost it became a defensive tool for juking enemy skill shots easier or Pyke R: some Pyke mains late game use it as a positioning tool since it blinks him to the X if it hits an enemy champ so he can land a clutch E in a fight. Smolder E seems to me to be a kiting/escape and chase tool since it gives 100% MS, lets u hop walls and gives u auto targeting shots. Akshan E is pretty similar in purpose to Smolder E tbh since they both give alternate movement methods while auto targeting enemies that are close to u while dashing

[@chronoarms4821]

@@Crescendobro but akshan E procs onhits like PTA and also resets after takedowns. I really thought smolders would work similar since then you could use it to engage with the lockon hits for PTA then use other abilities

[@andreapisano4913]

I think that they should make illaoi that the far she is from the wall bigger/longer the tentacle will be. This way she will have short and long tentacle to make it balanced but can still be effective in toplane

[@vexilvenom2562]

Ive been sayin this forever, but they need to just make it where they can spawn in the middle of the lane. just like how they do with her ult. but they are actually killable.

[@MrMagicRman]

better yet just leave her useless and toplaners everywhere will cheer

[@justinroylance4941]

Thanks for the great vid Zwag!

[@atomicbetrayal1]

Cait: Uses R Zwag: Best I can do is flash Q

[@AlryFireBlade]

I must confess that I am exited for SMoled. He is cute, voicelines that make me smile and gameplaywise he seems fear? I mean maybe his number are too high, but after balancing him a bit, i think he is fine. I see nothing frustrating in his Kit... The execute seems to be OK, and the E is not a Fizz E. I can't belive it isn't like Fizz E, because so it is fair.

[@HighPhoenix1754]

I think his numbers seem high because, well, offense is about all he's got. He starts off pretty weakish, and his passive rewards you for farming well. If you can't last hit, Smolder is useless to you, because he doesn't have any utility, defenses, and barely has short-term mobility or cc for that matter. He's all damage, and pretty straightforward as Dragons be, but I wouldn't mind if he got toned down -just- a bit.

[@islixxn]

He might be trash

[@tolmir2929]

what high numbers, for a very fed smolder he did not seem to be doing a lot of dmg, even more so in this meta where burst is king, he does not have the dps of a pure ad carry and he does not have the burst of a midlaner , his range his pretty bad too, honestly from what I have seen outside of his ult he seem pretty meh. Ap assassin are broken right now too and there is no way smolder has a good matchup against akali,fizz and diana

[@BRT73749]

How did you add the “+1 stack” visual after killing minions?

[@Nobody-hc1rw]

30:00 that was a pretty good combo for blind pick.

[@dominicluptak]

i had one where i played briar ADC with a bard, a i was at 300 hp, so i charge e to stay alive and knock yas into a wall, a enemy kayn comes flying over that same wall, bard ults me, so my e goes off while in bard ult stuns them both, my gnar flys in while they're stunned and extends it by ulting them into the same wall and i get a double kill and live it was insane lmfaooo

[@thegoodyearlimp6643]

27:49 i had a similar bug the other day where my Garen R just decided to do zero damage 🙄

[@user-um7bd2tf9y]

bruiser Jungle Smolder would be neat. The ganks would be quite cool. First clear in the jungle would probably be hell.

[@seungjinpark8609]

lol still find it funny “he calls his mom” hahah love this champ

[@thomasdoncieu]

You can probably get a bunch of stacks on the grublings if you go help your jungler on the grubs! 12 of them spawn every few seconds so if you get a good Q you could get 30-40 stacks while helping

[@Wolfboy607]

I don't think this works, because Nasus cannot stack off them, however Sion can, so it does need testing to verify. I assume he is more like nasus, since it's spell stacking as opposed to passive stacking, so keep your hopes moderated.

[@shinonomehakase2298]

Tried this recently and I recall seeing each give me 0.25 stacks each

[@melissaroberts4444]

I was surprised when he didn't do it cause of that I mean PekinWolf did it in his video of Smolder and it helped a lot as even the mini's work for it

[@uHasioorr]

@@Wolfboy607 Does Overgrowth stack on them? Edit. It does every little grublings count as 1...

[@Workman-rs3sc]

Man smolder is neat. Its always nice to see infinitely scaling champs. I feel like he needs a bit of a tuneup later on. Also, i wanna see a syndra video one of these days please.

[@daveayers2815]

Man i LOVE your background song!

[@giovannidox2444]

I think for fixing Illaoi they should add the same mechanic that fiddlesticks has with boa wards, like they are his clones, in her case, It would be her tentacles.

[@thisguyknowsball]

i want more champ lore related to bard, smolder, a sol, and gragas

[@bloodfox567]

your videos have a chokehold on my youtube auto play. No matter what im watching 2 or 3 vids into auto play your stuff comes up. Congrats.

[@ElKoalaGaming]

Day 211 asking for a gnar video

[@UNS4NE]

I support you on the way❤

[@smacksauce3586]

I second this

[@ArcLight-broke]

😂😂you are motivated

[@kimsteen8185]

NOO. MORE SMOLDER. NOW.

[@BlueJI234]

Come on zwag

[@CptnCardboard]

yayyyy more smolder content!!

[@fadeddragon123]

They might just make illaois tentacles have more range and make them visually bigger As for the “I wish you could fly over abilities” that’s one thing smite does better. Because you can jump over abilities and dodge them that way (note that dashes do not count as leaps)

[@TheAstyanii]

How does Runaan's work on Smolder? Does it make his E split, or cast extra bolts when Q is used? If either work, do they carry across their on-hit/on-kill properties? I hear they made it work on Ez Q, so it seems like it should absolutely work with Smolder in some way. Smolder Q seems to grant a stack on any kill, champs included. It doesn't show the stack generation (+1 stack when it gives +2), but watching the video shows that it's giving 2 stacks for killing with Q. Can you check if the voidmites spawned by void grubs count as valid stacking targets for Smolder? I know they're valid for Bel'veth empowered ult form, causing them to respawn as melee voidlings after the voidmites die, so they're probably closer to minions than jungle mobs. Then again, they only do that when spawned by 5-6 stacks of void touched or from using herald's charge. Smolder E seems incredibly underwhelming. It only gives 1 stack per unique champ hit on cast, it deals no damage, and the way trait calculates damage (added damage over the full duration) makes it seem like stacking crit actually makes it deal less damage. It's interrupted when any opponent displaces or controls Smolder and is cancelled if Smolder uses any abilities. It seems to even be disproportionately affected by slows for being +100% movespeed. There's a lot of space to make it more useful without increasing damage output, hope they figure something out.

[@kidnumber1ormaybenot]

still can't get over the ssj3 theme in almost every single video of Zwag.

[@SirCherryg]

1:05 insert "SHADOW WIZARD MONEY GANG! WE LOVE CASTING SPELLS!"

[@sergiolagunilla770]

I’m loving the Smolder videos and Smolder as a champion! I think you should try maxing E second, so you have more kiting capabilities by reducing the cooldown, and I don’t think W is so important for his kit. Try it if you want!

[@oezdemirofficial5245]

Hey zwag love your Videos brotha keep going 🎊

[@wlnlax14]

Regarding Illaoi, they buffed her mana to compensate for more Qs to push wave past middle. It doesn't affect seasoned illaoi players because if we fight af the center even before this season it's not ideal. Push all the way up or freeze and distance aren't an issue. Plus, next patch, I think they are increasing tentacle slam reach to help further

[@kirliyapag1641]

Zwag be checking if his e hits turrets each game.

[@TheTolnoc]

Seeing turret in the actual middle of a lane is so cursed.

[@smartarded]

5:52 Dynamically lengthened tentacles depending on map [X,Y] coordinate spawn location @Zwag

[@plasant8408]

Still suprised I haven't seen a single smolder with manamune, if it fits ezreal it surely fits him

[@BinxyBrown]

Wonder if you could go full move speed, ghost yomous crit and the rest cdr and just q people a ton

[@abzollozdol251]

The playlist you use for these videos I need it

[@pp8455]

Sorry for my english. how do you get the “stacks” to appear please ?

[@thanatsdarkbourne458]

I know that you explained early in the video why you used Press the Attack on a leth build, but still, why this and not electrocute?

[@jeffraunec]

You get 2 stacks for cannons dog Great videos man 💯

[@Ramingor]

Cozy video man

[@FeelsGoodClap]

So what happens when you get elder on top of the elder do you have double execute damage?

[@KaptynPierug]

doesnt he already have collector built in? doesnt the execute passive get wasted? wouldnt other lethality items be better?

[@stevenreed9441]

Naming the dragon smolder was amazingly creative.... How did they come up with that??

[@mobilityrp3888]

screw creativity when you could just have a really cool name. smolder is cool

[@johnzt8020]

I think his ult gonna be use like Rumble's ult, use it first to burn some hp and controlling the enemy's path

[@frustratedsquirrel]

Smolder's cooldowns are pretty large for a stacking/spamming character, with the exception of Q. I think that's the main thing that's going to prevent lethality/AP builds from being effective. That and he just doesn't stack very fast compared to someone like Veigar or Nasus or even Asol. His scalings aren't crazy either even with the added damage from his passive and his Q's range is low enough that he needs to get into danger every time he wants to poke with something other than his W (and his E has such a long cooldown that he can only escape every 2nd attempt or so.) Overall, they really did design him in such a way that he kind of feels like an Ezreal spam champ or Kogmaw cheese but just doesn't have the ability to really pull it off. Also, most games are going to end before he even gets to use the fun part of his kit.

[@stevenspecht001]

Don't forget that Smolder gets stacks for just simply hitting enemy champs with his abilities.

[@BladeZlayer]

The Q works as an Annie Q, You get your mana back. That's really cool

[@luisalvarez878]

Say I think exchanging the collector for something else after Q get the execute factor would be better for this item build... Love thy videos, Zwaggy 😊

[@mrt5386]

11:02 the stack text only counts q stacks, stacks obtained from hitting champions aren't counted

[@PedroWills]

Wanna a fix for Illaoi? Play her support! Here's a silly build: Bloodsong, Dead Man's, Hullbreaker, Sterak's, Sundered Sky and Boots (yeah, it plays around her high Base AD, the highest in the game not counting Mega Gnar).

[@Finn_Gottlieb]

Zwag bro, pls use you R in conjunction with your ult to either extend the range and gap close to use your other abilities or run away from a fight. Really busted when you learn to do it

[@TheLegend-oi8pc]

i wonder if smolder jungle can be a thing looks really playable on that lane

[@Nomi_901]

Smolder on National Appreciate A Dragon Day too!

[@Bagrieru]

Alright, now that talk about the Illaoi made me think of my Poppy, Camille, Gnar (wich I don't really play) and lastly… poor Mordekaiser having less places where walls limit his ult space to land more skills

[@darcychurchill]

I feel like Smolder's passive is a bit dull, I think it should also give your other abilities effects as well as just his Q, like more duration on his E flight, greater radius for W, etc.

[@Mearad90]

They are gonna give Illaoi's tentacles 125 range so they can attack from the walls, but that feels like it's gonna be busted in jungle fights

[@ethannguyen5594]

how do you show stack on hit ? i turned on everything but no luck

[@mctankles3730]

when Illaoi ults it doesn't care about map terrain it will just spawn tentacles within a radius of her.

[@Wolfboy607]

Very occasionally they spawn outside of range of the targets that spawned them. It's pretty rare, but has happened. I guess it's still a better system than now, tho.

[@tobysimmons4139]

I think you’ll find that all the dragons scale :)

[@just_another_bot0110]

This is actually hilarious. I was in Nashville.. the year there was a tornado i think 2020? Every woman there would ask my friend (older gentleman in his 60s) how old i was and if i was seeing anyone but would never speak to me directly. The gun club, bars, steakhouse, grocery stores (Im 31 now but am always told I look around 22) Women pretend to have so much confidence but the truth is they need a man to engage because theyre deathly afraid of rejection or acknowledging the man is the prize.

[@andrewbryant4259]

30:00 lmao 4 enemy ults just for you

[@antoreowithmilk]

Does smolder E proc manamune on each hit? if so that could be kinda busted

[@robakabob22]

@27:50 your ability did not land but the auto followed the ez through his arcane shift, which did minimal damage

[@nickholden585]

I reckon it'd been cool if riot made the champ age as the game progresses. He starts of like a tiny little dragon then scales into elder drake late game lol

[@nicklindberg90]

Last time i was this early we still had mythics

[@Sporomaniacos]

Wouldn't a tiamat help facilitate for faster Q stacking early?

[@hoveringgoat8061]

That might be a good move. It is an auto.

[@lefuriosnoob4565]

Kinda surprised you didn’t do this yet, but why not try mid lane Pyke with new lethality items? Especially hubris and the new lethality hydra

[@theunexpectedua]

Wow, your team was playing really good, jungler helping lanes, doing objectives.. playing the game :D Whenever I play, it's 20 games of afk or solo farming players that complain. I don't know if I want to play this game anymore, 14 seasons later, I'm just tired) But I'll watch)

[@Sunless1337]

Wonder how they'll address Illaoi catching the stray from map resizing. Just give her bigger numbers? Rework some of how her tentacles are placed?

[@_Kubcaa]

Hi (sorry for bad england)

[@pokemon100200]

illaoi ult spawns tentacles away from walls.

[@sinfulwrath666]

Can you try giant Smolder with Heartsteel? Like Smolder wants to be a grow into a big powerful dragon so turn him into a giant dragon.

[@EnnePlaysGames]

Ya gotta farm those early grubbies when playing smolder. Not killing the big ones, but alll the little ones

[@splitinfinity8550]

So wait is smolders mom the elder dragon? Would make sense since he has a mini elder execute built in

[@frsteemid]

The execute is a dragon thing in general, it seems.

[@kenneththomas1047]

Elder would canonically be his dad if were going by LoR canon, but one quote zwaq got this game made me curious, smolder said something about his aunt being a snake lady... possible reference to the deity that cursed cass? Edit: it was grandmother viper

[@fizito_]

​@@kenneththomas1047 The elder is not smolder's dad. Smolder and his mom are both camavoran imperial dragons, the elder dragon is a different species altogether.

[@baianojogano7607]

what i think about the poor illaoi, is that they should make her passive spawn with skill landed instead of spawning at walls, like, one enemy get hit with Q, 1 spawn on their back, get hit with E, one spawn at the soul not the champion, w makes them last longer and attack faster each cast of it

[@Zant3n]

Remplace one lethality item to rapide fire canon will help a lot to poke at decent range no ?

[@trewise3822]

i love the ssj3 theme

[@mattmourad601]

illaoi being bad might be the most fun change possible

[@MrHamsterpudding]

Illaoi is still super strong. Tentacles schmentacles. She spawns them like crazy

[@drag838]

Are you noticing that you get 15+2 ad per kill on hubris? Idk why its like that but thats why you should buy it first so you can end up with 60+ stacks?

[@leonarctus7342]

Collector works with passive execute?

[@lament8719]

Pretty sure Illaoi is better Mid at the moment because the of the distance between mid walls and tentacles

[@simonnguyen692]

?

[@Morphos_XL]

Does an on-hit build work with his E?

[@gianfrancofont1582]

For your ask: 11:00 . yes, you did. thats so good

[@stevenvlcek3454]

I watched all your smolder videos multiple times, you were one of the first tank smolder. I have been looking at everything. He gains damage from every stat but health. One item first that. He stacks, and with grasp He tech, double stacks dmg with the hp. His Q applys all on hit and ability style effects. The three main weapons he needs, in my opinion. Titanic, BoTrK, mask, stacks botrk, his natural burn, the mask...%hp damage, then he stacks hand dmg...oh I forgot it has sustained because of the life steal, everything after that is situational based. Ice rod, all slow cc on all abilities

[@cosmicthanos]

crazy that he almost lost that 1v1 27:55

[@raa9756]

maybe a tri force cleaver bork build on smolder could work

[@joeldanielsson2355]

The small chickens give stacks right? You could get them from lane..

[@AmelliaKyusei]

11:00 it did say +1 but you actually got 2 for killing "and" hitting a champ

[@dunkelgram3465]

Thank you for showcasing lethality Smolder, Mr. Zwag. Im actually a bit dissapointed of the W. It seemed so promising on paper, but i guess it was designed mostly for slowing and as a tool of disengagement. Im looking forward to Tanksmolder. Bye!

[@xknol2523]

Hey ZWAG pls can u try this kai'sa build i thought of it and tried it it's amazing so u go:1-eclipse/2-nashor's tooth/3-stormsurge/4-kraken slayer/5-rabadon's death cap and for boots u can go berserker's or star shoes Hope u see this and try it

[@dragonroarr5787]

When you get stacks from hiting champs with smolder Q it doesnt show plus 1 but you do get the stacks so if you last hit a champ with his Q you get two stacks

[@dragosmilea9691]

Whats the option that shows you how many stacks you get for each Q?

[@kabukijo3148]

YEAOWCH !

[@brentwells6802]

Since he has good mobility with his e do you think he’d make a good jungler?

[@syahidirhassan4846]

Nope...his early game dmg is pretty garbo... Unless u want to suffer for the first 15 min

[@togspi05]

It really feels like the game is in fast pace but it is actually 35 minutes