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Mel Build

Top Tier 3

Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 966 gamesUpdated

45.0%win rate0.0%pick15.5%ban

Who counters Mel

How to build Mel

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

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

42.0% win rate 10% of games 69 games
RunesSorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorchPrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind50% of games
SpellsFlashTeleportFlash + Teleport64%
Skills
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Radiant Volley
14578
Rebuttal
314151718
Solar Snare
29101213
Golden Eclipse
61116
StartHealth PotionHealth PotionDoran's RingHealth Potion, Health Potion, Doran's Ring
Full Mel build →
45.0%win rate
Patch 26.20: 44.9% over 2,313 gamesPatch 26.21: 45.0% over 966 gameswin rate, 26.20 to 26.21
0.0%pick rate
15.5%ban rate
Holdingsame as last patch
44.8%under 22 min
45.3%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.

Loss 15–20m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitT MelvsOlaf champion portraitT Olaf
0 / 1 / 0

Build

Boots|

Spells & runes

FlashTeleport|

Skills

QWEQQRQEQ
Win 35–40m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitT MelvsTeemo champion portraitT Teemo
13 / 6 / 14

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Blackfire Torch→Liandry's Torment→Shadowflame→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

EQWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW
Win 30–35m
MASTER+
Mel champion portraitT MelvsJayce champion portraitT Jayce
18 / 6 / 3

Build

Sorcerer's Shoes|Luden's Echo→Shadowflame→Zhonya's Hourglass→Rabadon's Deathcap

Spells & runes

FlashIgnite|

Skills

QEWQQRQEQEREEWWRWW

Runes

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

Most popular 44.1% win rate · 50% of games · 413 games
SorceryArcane CometManaflow BandTranscendenceScorch
PrecisionCoup de GracePresence of Mind
Shards Ability Haste · Adaptive Force · Health Scaling
Runner up 42.1% win rate · 17% of games · 140 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 + Teleport64%44.2%663 games
  • FlashIgniteFlash + Ignite20%47.3%207 games

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

Boots
Sorcerer's Shoes80%Ionian Boots of Lucidity13%Boots of Swiftness5%
Sorcerer's Shoes most often · 44.5% 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
6% of games that reach a third item take this path44.2% win rate43 games
Every slot, boots and full build for Mel →

Every slot, boots and full builds

Patch 26.21 · 1,034 games with a finished item

Slot by slot

Boots

Sorcerer's ShoesSorcerer's Shoes
74% · 44.5% win rate
Ionian Boots of LucidityIonian Boots of Lucidity
12% · 45.2% win rate
Boots of SwiftnessBoots of Swiftness
5% · 52.8% win rate

Most common full builds

  1. Luden's Echo›Shadowflame+Sorcerer's Shoes5% of games · 35.2% win rate · 54 games
  2. Luden's Echo+Sorcerer's Shoes4% of games · 39.5% win rate · 43 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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