LoL Patch 14.7 buffs aren’t enough to return Smolder to his former glory
Patch 14.7 for League of Legends went live on April 3 and introduced a number of tweaks to more than a dozen champions, including Smolder. The newest AD carry was slightly buffed, but so far, it hasn’t been enough to make him dominant once again.
In Patch 14.7, the developers decided to increase Smolder’s basic armor from 24 to 26 and increase his bonus physical damage based on critical chance on Q from zero-to-30 to zero-to-50 percent. While such minimal changes are enough to bring champions back to the top of the leaderboards on some occasions, that doesn’t seem to be the case with Smolder this time around.