Mel
Patches 16.19 to 16.21 · NA- Pick
- 5.2%picked in 152 of 2,915 games
- Ban
- 6.1%129 bans over 2,127 games, against 6.3% in soloQ
Amateur: 2,915 games from amateur tournaments, last 60 days, NA. SoloQ Master+: 232,510 games on the same patches. An amateur figure in gold clearly differs from soloQ.
At a glance
Four answers, each one opens its chapter.- What changes in tournaments2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.Win rateDraft
- How to play itArcane Comet, then Luden's Echo, Shadowflame, and Rabadon's Deathcap: the most played build in soloQ.
- In a compCrowd control (CC) first: more CC than 77% of mid laners.CCDamagePoke
- With / againstNo opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
- In draftFallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
What changes in tournaments?
2 clear gaps between soloQ and amateur tournaments as Mid.
- Win rateWins less in amateur play
- Amateur
- 36.1%
- SoloQ
- 46.0%
- DraftPicked more often in amateur play
- Amateur
- 1.2%
- SoloQ
- 0.6%
How to play it?
Arcane Comet, then Luden's Echo, Shadowflame, and Rabadon's Deathcap: the most played build in soloQ.
RunesArcane Comet80% · 2,529
SpellsFlash + Teleport84% · 2,645
SkillsQnot collected in soloQ- Luden's Echo
- Shadowflame
- Rabadon's Deathcap
Not collected in soloQ: starting items, 4th item, and skill order.
What does it bring to a comp?
Crowd control (CC) first: more CC than 77% of mid laners.
- Crowd control (CC)top23%1 · mid laners: 0.7
- Team damagetop24%24% · mid laners: 21%
Read on tournament games from 2026-04-15 to 2026-10-12 (44,638 games) · same reading as the draft review · compared with other mid laners
What marks it
- CC
- Damage
- Poke
Like other mid laners
- Damage in lane
- Damage in mid game
- Damage in late game
- Gold at 20 min
- Map pressure
- Absorbs damage
- Plays teamfights
- Takes its kills in duels
- Lets allies carry kills
What it is not
- No split-push
Damage / min by phase · at equal gold
Rank 39 in lane, 34 in mid game and 26 in late game, out of 100 mid laners.
Gold vs. direct opponent
At 20 min, ahead of 70% of mid laners against the direct opponent.
Where it stands among mid laners · every measure
0 ← less · median · more → 100- Damage in lane · rank 39 of 100 among mid laners515 · median 528
- Damage in mid game · rank 34 of 100 among mid laners860 · median 899
- Damage in late game · rank 26 of 100 among mid laners1,122 · median 1,179
- Gold at 15 min · rank 83 of 100 among mid laners+297 · median +25
- Gold at 20 min · rank 70 of 100 among mid laners+311 · median +71
- Map pressure · rank 52 of 100 among mid laners3.5 · median 3.2
- Absorbs damage · rank 26 of 100 among mid laners361 · median 489
- Plays teamfights · rank 56 of 100 among mid laners56% · median 55%
- Takes its kills in duels · rank 46 of 100 among mid laners22% · median 23%
- Lets allies carry kills · rank 60 of 100 among mid lanersrank 60 of 100
- Crowd control (CC) · rank 77 of 100 among mid laners1 · median 0.7
- Team damage · rank 76 of 100 among mid laners24% · median 21%
With whom, against whom?
No opponent with a clear gap to expected in amateur play: win rates remain ranges.
Best results
Ranked by the gap to expected in amateur play, at the lower bound of its interval, at most 5 per role. The other source is a reference.
Against
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
With
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
No positive gap in amateur play.
Matchups and allies
One group per role of the other champion, five cards first. The bar is the win rate range, the tick marks 50%; the colour of the gap gives our reading, it sorts nothing.
Ban it or pick it?
Fallback pick: comes out late in the series, once the pool has emptied.
Pick rate as Mid
Amateur tournaments, compared with soloQ- SoloQ Master+0.6%2,826 picks of 465,017ban 6.3% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Amateur tournaments1.2%54 picks of 4,328ban 6.9% · patches 16.19 to 16.21
- Pro0.6%13 picks of 2,214bans not published · patches 16.17 to 16.20
Presence by patch
6.8% on 16.21Within the series
Fearless series only · as Mid- 2.1%G117 games of 817
- 3.2%G226 games of 817
- 4.2%G3+15 games of 354
Not enough series yet: published from 30.