Smolder Unranked to Diamond #1 - Smolder ADC Gameplay Guide | Best Smolder Build & Runes

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[@marieermolina4828]

my heart melts every time someone says "protect adc"

[@sliceofsivir]

was waiting for this one! he's honestly felt super smooth and satisfying to play once i figured him out, looking forward to seeing your gameplay:)

[@TeoWeber]

Great video! Was expecting a Smolder series soon xD

[@TLGaby]

Nice video and explained regarding multiple interactions.

[@Cazone27]

Enjoying your gameplays!😀

[@FlaminVictini]

The thing about the hybrid build with the Riftmaker and Liandry’s is that it is so much more consistent and late game oriented. Mid game your damage is ass but you’re so tanky you can int for stacks. Once you hit 225 and 3 core your burn fucking hurts and you are duoubling up on that with liandry’s as well, you get omnivamp on your burns and aoe, you can now go with cheap tank items and basically be unkillable while your ult and W do ridiculous aoe damage and given the way the ability damage ramp scales with your burn you effectively have a ~25% health execute on champions it’s insane. So despite building no crit and very little AD this is actually his best scaling build because you become unkillable late game and your damage sky rockets as soon as you hit 225, that’s when the build synergy really comes together. Worth noting that even though your mid to late transition feels weaker, smolder is really good at stalling games and still impacting fights with aoe damage so it’s not all that bad and the more stacks you get the sooner you become god mode 1v9 machine. I also prefer taking Manaflow band and transcendence later secondary page, fixes mana and CDR issues.

[@littlemikasa3439]

Nice! Love to see you added a N1 on your video picture, I remember seeing someone write a critique about how it could’ve been better and the fact you listened makes it so nice bc it was rlly constructive :>

[@orion3223]

i was waiting thsi

[@ItsAllCulturalMarxism]

Smolder looks great for solo queue! Farm and poke don't need to rely on your support as much to scale.

[@miro5052]

9:50 mother son duo

[@Airsoft92]

The most difficult part of this video would have been picking Smolder. I played it 10 times on 25. Because everybody picks him or ban him lol

[@tiffschannel]

Nice vid

[@dylankoch627]

Love the content and awesome to see the different builds showcased! Am I going crazy or are the last 2 games the same game?

[@VaporaDark]

Yeah they probably are, sometimes I add the same game twice by mistake 😭

[@ioannishussein8038]

Time for some new Smolder gameplays.

[@BirdStalker32]

Your teammates on that third game were so toxic. U literally carried them so hard and they still blame everything on you. Great to see that it didn't bother you that much.

[@ogyfive]

Finally a new video

[@VaporaDark]

Videos will be more consistent now, I took some time off to work on my Aphelios guide that will be released soon.

[@mkupka1]

I’ve been enjoying Dorian’s ring start, into Spear of Shojin, Riftmaker, then RFC. And some games I’ll get a dark seal on my first back

[@simhanssens7331]

Think riftmaker is very overrated. Feel like Liandries is better in all aspects on smolder and the only ap item he should buy

[@verkran6312]

What does everyone think about Smolder as a solo queue carry? With his stacks guaranteeing good damage with proper stacking. That being said what’s the average time you should be hitting that 225 stacks mark? If it’s faster than the large power spikes on normal adc’s but not one shot power we normally see

[@user-ru5tp4gb5d]

Finally! Corki rework unranked to diamond!

[@alphaunitedtv551]

i'm having alot of issues when playing smolder right now my team always hard feeds early game and it feels impossible to do anything? and what build do you recommend, the crit one?

[@VaporaDark]

Crit is probably better into tankier comps, tank builds better into squishies.

[@OriginalNeimo]

Here before title change.

[@VaporaDark]

YOU SAW NOTHING.

[@Daniel-dz2pj]

What was it :o

[@VaporaDark]

@@Daniel-dz2pj Smolder Unranked to Diamond #1 - Smolder ADC Gameplay Guide | Best Smolder Build & Runes

[@rauchendeRaucher]

can you making saying the right ✌🏽😞

[@marieermolina4828]

that line about afk Yumi, lol))

[@mateivlogs9924]

isnt ad smolder better? i played both and i have more dmg on the ad

[@Liquidskwid]

Any change of build now that smolder W got nerfed early? I find it's still better to go ring for the mana sustain.

[@VaporaDark]

I think you may as well skip Doran's Ring if you're going to be rushing Essence Reaver anyway and just use Doran's Blade instead. But all other builds, I agree that Doran's Ring is probably still best. It got nerfed slightly (DBlade has basically the same winrate now), but the other buffs Smolder got ensures that it's still just as strong as before, just not as stronger than Doran's Blade as it was before.

[@scottmadsen9964]

I'd like to see a updated guide after they really hit him hard with the nerfs

[@VaporaDark]

Getting a new Smolder video will be one of my biggest priorities when I get back home. Who knows, maybe it won't take an average of 5 dodges to get a video now that his banrate isn't so high!

[@scottmadsen9964]

@@VaporaDark I'm glad because I really love smolder but right now he feels really weak as with the FF culture in norms and his weaker then normal early game since the nerfs hit I just can't get him to max stacks before the game ends usually it is 20-25 minutes smolder gets his stacks by about 30 on average

[@Alextinto28]

N I C E

[@kamrenrasmussen9671]

did you put 2 of the same match in at 2 hours 55?

[@VaporaDark]

Yes I did, my apologies.

[@Drtimahoh]

would love to see you do a Twisted fate to diamond

[@VaporaDark]

I don't currently plan to. I may eventually do an indepedant 4 hour video on him, but aside from this Smolder one I'd like to focus on completing existing series before starting any new ones.

[@Chergiras]

How strong you feel smolder currently is? Do you feel a nerf in the future?

[@VaporaDark]

He will definitely get nerfed I think, his lane phase wasn't intended to be as good as it is with the 3 W points + Doran's Ring start, currently he scales far too well while his laning is far too good.

[@skyjayq1944]

I find it so ironic theyre calling you too bronze in one of the matches, if they only knew lmao

[@Cloverfield187]

I am currently a silver 2 Xayah main, and I really struggle into smolder. I feel like I should be able to win early but between his W and support damage, I am never afforded the right to match him.

[@VaporaDark]

I doubt Xayah's any good into Smolder, at least not with a strong lockdown support. His W spam greatly outranges her and he's too slippery with his E to get caught by her root.

[@Alextinto28]

Imagine complaining about your 20 2 adc while you are like 3 10 Peple these days are crazy

[@Alextinto28]

Like, you wouldn't be better if you participated in those fights and died because of it, would you? damn, that vi with anger problems or something

[@andyprezeau4876]

what are the runes

[@VaporaDark]

You can see them on the left of the HUD.

[@Shootermcgav1n69]

That vi was so annoying. She feeds 2 kills to your aatroxes laner. Gives her first tower and then blames him for losing in a counter matchup thay she made impossible. Junglers smdh

[@Philip-bf1fi]

Gzu geht h.

[@TLGaby]

Btw check 2:49:02 something Sus happend here

[@VaporaDark]

I'm not sure what you're referring to.

[@Credible0.0]

Lol ofc hard inting Vi gets triggered over 1 raptor camp 🥱😂, the level of anger was so unnecessary