One of the attractive factors of the 2024 season, is a series of generals launched at the end of 2023 – the 2024 season will officially appear. And to satisfy the audience, the first name and also controversial design when launched – Smolder had offerings at every professional playground of the world League of Legends village. Of course, the results may be different, but in general, Smolder has brought the first reviews of a little maneuvering gunner, extremely powerful late game – the definitions of the old gunner general of League.
Smolders are showing strength in the new season
Up to the present time of season 14, on all large and small tournaments worldwide professional League of Legends, Smolder has been used 125 times and banned 113 times. That is, on average, each match will have at least times the teams ban this champion. At the same time, the current win rate of Smolder is up to 55.6% – an impressive figure for a new champion. The winning rate of this small dragon is the highest for the gunner position (by the number of matches) and the lowest is the top lane (about 33.3%). In addition, Smolder is also popular in the middle line and also proved very useful, with 57.1% of the win rate.
Smolder possesses an impressive win rate of more than 55%
In the match between KT Rolster and T1 recently, Gumayusi used Smolder and can be said to be maximized. Although not a mobile champion, Gumayusi was not defeated at any time. Not to mention, according to a statistics, within 23 minutes, Smolder in the hands of Gumayusi owned the number of stacks up to 229. In other words, within 23 minutes, Smolder had enough stacks to deal with damage equivalent to a normal damage equipment.
Gumayusi accumulated 229 internal stacks after only 23 minutes
And the fact also proves that, in the hands of the leading gunners of LCK, Smolder is extremely beneficial. This general was originally a Late Game general, so the longer the match time, the more Smolders benefit. Especially the teams owning the world's leading gunner today such as T1, Gen.G, Smolder is more useful.
In the hands of the top gunner, Smolder is proved to be extremely useful
However, in other areas, this is probably not really reasonable, or rather there are many areas that own the gameplay that is not suitable for smolders. For example, VCS when this is a place to play fighting. Smold itself can be considered a pure gunner general, need to stack high and equip enough – similar to Aphelios. Therefore, there are many ideas that if “taking care” of Smold is enough, a team can completely “shut down” the ability to increase the power of this dragon general.
Many viewers also have to admire the power of Smolder
Perhaps, Smolder will be an extremely powerful general, even about Late Game can win all gladiators like K'Sante. But Smolder also shows that itself requires many factors to be able to achieve the threshold of strength. And therefore, this champion will be balanced, or Riot's “200 years of experience”, it is necessary to see if the player uses and the opponent finds a way to overcome or not.