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Tips & Tricks
- Rare treat is good when it upgrades your ability, but is not good once your Smolder is fully upgraded. Make sure to go for another Power Up once your Smolder reaches level 30. Note Rare Treat can only get offered on Stage 4 or later.
- Three main versions for Smolder Reroll: Protector, Juggernaut, or Mentor. Currently Protector and Juggernaut are the most common ways to play Smolder – play whichever version you hit more units for early game.
Strong Conditions
+2 Tier Conditions B → S

+1 Tier Conditions B → A










Openers
Protector Smolder





Juggernaut Smolder










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Economy Strategy
- Level to 4 if strong.
- Level to 5, unless on 3 loss streak.
- Level to 6, unless it places you below 30g.
- Stay level 6, unless you can stay above 50g on 7 or you are below 40 HP and can stay above 30g on 7.
- Level to 7, roll until board mostly upgraded. Never go below 10g even if missing tank or carry.
- Build up to 50g, slow roll to 50g until 5-1.
- If below ~25 HP, sometimes you must roll until you hit here. Not ideal.
- Roll until you hit 3-star carry and tank. Can go to 0g. Only greed gold if you are above ~60 HP.
- If you hit, you can level to 8. Otherwise stay 7. Holds true for every round for the rest of the game.
i had a crazy double db (with the augment) + guinsoo early game and smolder was doing 30k
Strictly worse than kogmaw in 15.3 after nerfs, borderline unplayable without radiants or artefacts and caps VERY low, don’t get baited
Does Bludgeoner stack with Smolders level 30 ignore armor passive?
Dawncore not good?
Answering myself after playing it, absolute dogshit
Over 9000> Hat Trick
if you roll bad stats on over 9000 you just get rid of it for hat trick, over 9000 can be super trash
Been loving this comp lately, if I can get Smolder by 2-3 and go uncontested it’s an easy top 4, and with full BIS + lvl 9 comp it’s usually a top 2. Just had a game with 3 star Smolder with 3x Radiant items in Giant Slayer, Shojin and IE, easily 30k damage every round and smooth sailing to a win. (Prismatic Augment game hitting Pandora’s III, Radiant Refactor, Radiant Relics).
Is heavyweight smolder strong?
Heavy is the crown! drop strikers flail for heavy is the crown and he goes super hard aswell.
Played smolder with Fishbones, Manazane, and Snipers, regular build somehow cleared all of these
Would like to know if Kog’maw is a better monster if I have Pandora’s augment and artifact chest? I was able to get flickerblades, but I was using smolder instead. Well, it didn’t make a difference, but I would be curious who is better as a monster in an artifact pandoras situation.
kog’maw definitely has more useable artifacts, but smolder probably is easier to play around in general due to being stronger early
Does pyromance increment the dmg of smolder due to being a burn? Is it OP?
it does, and no it’s not OP
Yo. Just put a mundo with regen item and a gargoil first lane, a good tank power up, or specificaly the -30 damages for all the karmas, smolder behind and you’re good to go. except against kata, but everything has a weakness
i play around lulu every time i get her in an orb / carousel before stage 3, and for smolder i’ve had the most success with the precision power snax and just building him like jhin, just with more emphasis on infinity edge. it’s usually ie with two other crit items, i just slam what i get, whether that’s last whisper / striker’s flail / quicksilver. ie + 2 crit items gives 100%crit and works super well. just played a game with it (protector front line) and had a 20 winstreak
the worst reroll comp this set. everyone will just rush karma or yuumi to make this bleed out
Could this be played with neekos aug?
Try this with luden and guinsoo, disgusting
If you can make it to Lee Sin 2, IE HOJ +1 feels very good for juggernaut version and gives a reliable duo carry dealing roughly equal damage to Smolder. I priod fruit on him over sett when he was fully itemized. Also wanted to note that Demolitionist power up on Smolder felt really good late game because his spell splash also stuns. If you have an attack speed item on him it completely disrupts the enemy frontline and spreads to backline. Apparently it’s one of the rarer power ups, no stage requirement. I can recommend Warming Up power up for Lee if you wanted to include that. Also the Smolder build+powers aren’t correctly shown on the Juggernaut page.
Oh also Smolder information for the Mech variation also isn’t correctly shown
Fixed the bugged Smolder info. For Jug version, you’re not going to hit Lee 2 most of time so just going to leave that up to exercise of the people who do. As for Smolder Power Ups, don’t think those are optimized yet. Also seen ramping rage do quite well, so will wait to see more games with it. I know Efficient and Rare Treat before level 30 are good, not sure about rest.
The augment Heavy is a crown can be a condition for smolder re-roll ?
Is Sunfire really needed?
It’s not — fixed. I just defaulted same build on every Sett build when rapidly creating the PBE comps, didn’t account for Smolder. Thanks for pointing out!