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Mel Build

Mid Tier 4

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 35,385 gamesUpdated

45.9%win rate1.6%pick15.5%ban

Who counters Mel

Every Mid matchup for Mel, ranked →

How to build Mel

Spellslinger's Shoes→Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spellslinger's Shoes → Luden's Echo → Shadowflame → Zhonya's Hourglass

46.4% win rate 19% of games 4,751 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind46% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport79%
Skills
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Radiant Volley
14578
Rebuttal
314151718
Solar Snare
29101213
Golden Eclipse
61116
StartDoran's RingHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's Ring, Health Potion, Health Potion
Full Mel build →
45.9%win rate
Patch 26.20: 46.1% over 91,934 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.9% over 35,385 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
46.2%at Emerald+
1.6%pick rate
15.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
50.4%under 22 min
45.4%over 32 min

Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.

Recent games

Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.

Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitM MelvsKatarina champion portraitM Katarina
12 / 9 / 8

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Archangel's Staff→Hextech Rocketbelt→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRW
Loss 30–35m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitM MelvsYasuo champion portraitM Yasuo
4 / 8 / 6

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Blackfire Torch→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

TeleportFlash|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR
Loss 25–30m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitM MelvsTwisted Fate champion portraitM Twisted Fate
10 / 4 / 2

Build

Spellslinger's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWR

Runes

The full page most players run, not just the keystone.

Most popular 45.8% win rate · 46% of games · 16,312 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 44.1% win rate · 15% of games · 5,241 games
DominationDark HarvestCheap ShotSixth SenseUltimate Hunter
SorceryManaflow BandScorch
Shards Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health

Summoner spells and early items

What people bring, and which ability they max first.

Summoner spells
pickwin
  • FlashTeleportFlash + Teleport79%45.9%29,585 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite11%45.5%4,297 games

Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.

Boots
Spellslinger's Shoes87%Crimson Lucidity10%Chainlaced Crushers4%
Spellslinger's Shoes most often · 46.7% win rate

Mel build

The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.

  1. Zhonya's Hourglass1st
  2. Luden's Echo2nd
  3. Shadowflame3rd
10% of games that reach a third item take this path47.2% win rate2,439 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Mel →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 36,991 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Spellslinger's ShoesSpellslinger's Shoes
83% · 46.7% win rate
Crimson LucidityCrimson Lucidity
10% · 44.6% win rate
Chainlaced CrushersChainlaced Crushers
4% · 40.9% win rate
BootsBoots
1% · 28.9% win rate
SwiftmarchSwiftmarch
1% · 44.3% win rate
No bootsNo boots
1% · 45.7% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes9% of games · 42.5% win rate · 3,156 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes5% of games · 41.1% win rate · 1,984 games
  3. Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 40.5% win rate · 1,477 games
  4. Zhonya's Hourglass›Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 47.3% win rate · 1,432 games
  5. Zhonya's Hourglass›Shadowflame›Luden's Echo+Spellslinger's Shoes4% of games · 47.6% win rate · 1,313 games
Where these numbers come from

We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.

Matchups compare Mel against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Mel's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number.

Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.

Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.

Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.

Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.

Built from real ranked games this patch. We keep the running totals, never the games themselves.

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