Smolder Abilities Rundown – The kit of the new LoL champion

Here is the kit and abilities rundown for the new upcoming LoL champion, Smolder. Let’s see what he looks like in Summoner’s Rift.

Smolder Abilities Rundown - The kit of the new LoL champion

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Smolder – LoL Abilities Rundown

Considering Smolder is a dragon, his kit is revolved around fire and the ability to spit flames. The cute creature will be an ADC with a great focus on its scaling potential, which can be seen by his stacks-based passive which has an interaction with his Q. While his kit doesn’t seem to be too hard to master, the champion will require great positioning like all marksmen. Below are his base stats and abilities.

Base stats

  • Health: 575 – 2275
  • Health regen: 3 – 13.2
  • Mana: 300 – 980
  • Mana regen: 8.5 – 20.4
  • AD: 56 – 98.5
  • Armor: 24 – 103.9
  • MR: 30 – 52.1
  • MS: 330
  • Attack range: 550
  • AS base: 0.638
  • Attack windup: 16.622%
  • AS ratio: N/A
  • Bonus AS: 0 – 68%

Passive – Dragon Practice 

  • INNATE: Smolder’s damaging abilities against champions and minion or monster kills with Super Scorcher Breath Super Scorcher Breath grant him a stack of Dragon Practice.
    DRAGON PRACTICE: For each stack, Smolder’s basic abilities deal bonus magic damage.

    • Super Scorcher Breath Super Scorcher Breath: Deal bonus magic damage equal to 50% − 65% (based on critical strike chance) Dragon Practice stacks.
    • Achooo! Achooo!: Deals bonus magic damage equal to 50% Dragon Practice stacks.
    • Flap, Flap, Flap Flap, Flap, Flap: Attacks deal bonus magic damage equal to 17.5Dragon Practice stacks.
  • ACTIVE: Smolder sends a fireball in the target direction, dealing physical damage to the first enemy hit and applying on-hit effects at 100% effectiveness and lifesteal at 50% effectiveness.
    If this hits at least one enemy, Smolder generates a stack. Super Scorcher Breath is empowered with new effects based on the number of stacks collected.
    • 25 stacks: The fireball explodes upon colliding with the first enemy or reaching maximum range, dealing physical damage to nearby enemies.
    • 125 stacks: The fireball sends forth 2 (+ 1% Dragon Practice Dragon Practice stacks) bolts of fire in an arc upon collision that explode when reaching maximum range, dealing physical damage equal to 75% of Super Scorcher Breath’s damage to enemies hit.
    • 225 stacks: Enemies hit are set on fire for 3 seconds, dealing true damage equal to 6.5% of their maximum health over the duration, capped at 300 against monsters. Enemy champions that fall below 2% (+ 1% every 40 Dragon Practice stacks) of their maximum health while burning are executed.
    • Cost: 23/26/29/32/35 mana
    • Cooldown: 6/5.5/5/4.5/4 seconds
    • Cast time: 0.25
    • Target range: 550 (+100% bonus range)
    • Range: 500
    • Effect radius: 285/150
    • Speed: 1800/900
    • Physical damage: 15/25/35/45/55 (+ 100% AD) (+ 15% AP)
    • Maximum: 19.5/32.5/45.5/58.5/71.5 (+ 130% AD) (+ 19.5% AP)
  • ACTIVE: Smolder lets out a sneeze, releasing a blast in the target direction that deals physical damage to enemies hit and slows them by 35% for 1.5 seconds. Hitting an enemy champion creates an explosion that deals physical damage to nearby enemies. Consecutive explosions on the same target deal 75% damage. Achooo! deals 140% damage against minions and monsters. The sneeze slows down after traveling 1200 units.
    • Cost: 60 mana
    • Cooldown: 14/13/12/11/10 seconds
    • Cast time: 0.35
    • Range: 1500
    • Effect radius: 385
    • Width: 125
    • Speed: 2000/400
    • Sneeze physical damage: 70/90/110/130/150 (+ 25% AD) (+ 35% AP)
    • Explosion physical damage: 25/40/55/70/85 (+ 65% AP)
  • ACTIVE: Smolder takes flight for 1.25 seconds, gaining Smolder Abilities Rundown - The kit of the new LoL champion 100% bonus movement speed and the ability to ignore terrain collision for the duration. While in flight, he automatically fires up to 5 − 10 (based on critical strike chance) bolts at the most wounded visible enemy, dealing physical damage with each hit.
    • Cost: 65 mana
    • Cooldown: 24/22/20/18/16 seconds
    • Range: 700
    • Speed: 1800
    • Physical damage: 15/20/25/30/35 (+ 10% AD)
  • ACTIVE: Smolder shouts for his mother to attack from above, causing her to exhale a wave of fire from behind him and towards the target direction, granting sight of the area it passes through, dealing physical damage to enemies hit and healing Smolder. Enemies within the center are dealt 30% increased damage and slowed by 40% for 2 seconds
    • Cost: 100 mana
    • Cooldown: 120/110/100 seconds
    • Cast time: 0.75 seconds
    • Range: 4250
    • Effect Radius: 1000
    • Width: 125
    • Speed: 1700
    • Physical damage: 225/350/475 (+ 110% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP)
    • Healing: 225/350/475 (+ 110% bonus AD) (+ 100% AP)
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Since we still haven’t gotten the numbers on his abilities, it’s tough to judge how strong the kit looks. Nonetheless, the champion should be able to reward mechanically gifted players with exceptional positioning while making it accessible to newcomers. Number changes will be updated in the upcoming days when new data is available.

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