r/SmolderMains • u/Real_Company_4617 • 6d ago

Gameplay Post patch smolder

Is it only me or is smolder even stronger now.
I only played him after the 1st dft patch and I have about 60ish % wr on him and climbed from p4 to p1.
Since I’m a oneshot adc main(draven, mf, cait)
I rarely ever built bruiser on him because I don’t like that class… most of my games were hubris-Er-rfc-ie-ldr and whatever for 6th.
I know that his crit got buffed but i just played 3 games where i was totally melting everyone with that build post 26.11 patch. I still can’t see his winrates on u.gg
is anyone else feeling that he is still super strong(stronger) or I just got paired against dogs 3 times in a row so i solo carried.

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u/Vladxxl 6d ago

Well if you only played crit before (which was kind of bad at the time especially IE) and now it got buffed why would you not think its stronger?

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u/Real_Company_4617 6d ago

Well I was suprisingly good with it considering I litteraly picked up the champ for the first time for the sake of him being broken. It felt stronger than the champs i mained and played for the whole season so I tought that he is getting nerfed in multiple ways.

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u/DucktorLarsen 6d ago

He was like 50-50.8% winrate on crit and bruiser was 51.5-53%~ish but barely anyone played it, then the DFT stuff happened which is a better rune for bruiser and it also had a broken interaction with Black Cleaver, all that combined with the normie sheep finally realizing that Bruiser is good started all playing Bruiser build which shot his winrate up to 54-55% for bruiser build specifically.

So as you were building crit you weren't even experiencing what was broken about Smolder, crit was only "okay" and you must've just been playing very well that's all. In general his crit build was not strong overall, that's why he needed this adjustment helping crit build.