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Smolder has been soaring over League of Legends<\/em>\u2019 Summoner\u2019s Rift for little over a month now, and he\u2019s already on track to becoming one of the most hated champions.<\/p>

According to Lolalytics<\/a>, Smolder is comfortably sitting at 53.26 percent win rate, with his pick rate being at 19.42 percent. That being said, Smolder doesn\u2019t even make it to Summoner\u2019s Rift in 40 percent of cases, since players frequently ban him. <\/p>

League <\/em>Patch 14.5<\/a> introduced a ton of changes to Smolder<\/a>. Even though Riot Games intended these tweaks to be small nerfs, the changes will actually help this small dragon to become more oppressive in the mid-to-late-game. The devs tinkered with all abilities except Achooo! (W). Their idea was to preserve the option for players to lean into tankier builds while making the trade-off more prominent, as a tankier Smolder will deal less damage.<\/p>