Mel Build Guide for Wild Rift

How to play Mel

Mel is a tactical mage who can play in the Mid Lane. She specializes in controlling fights with her abilities, poking enemies and crowd controlling them to keep them at bay. Unlike other mages, Mel has incredible burst damage with her combos, making her a constant threat throughout the game. Mel's Rebuttal makes her very unique. It not only makes her immune to damage for a second but can also reflect incoming projectiles back to their caster. This allows you to play mind games with your opponents.

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Mel's Abilities

Searing Brilliance

(Passive)

Mel's attacks and abilities apply and refresh stacks of Overwhelm for a few seconds each time they deal damage.

Overwhelm stores damage per stack of magic damage. When applied, if the stored amount exceeds the target's combined shields and current health, they are executed.

After Mel uses an ability, her next attack fires 3 extra projectiles. Each projectile deals magic damage and can be stacked up to 9 extra projectiles.

Mel's passive is key to her damage output. Keeping stacks of Overwhelm is key to winning fights. Sometimes using her Golden Eclipse after hitting her basic abilities is better since you'll keep the stacks of Overwhelm on targets.

Radiant Volley

(1)

Unleashes a barrage of 7 projectiles that explode in the area around a target location. Each explosion deals magic damage.

Radiant Volley excels in both wave-clearing and in skirmishes, helping her control the laning phase and poke enemies from distance in teamfights.

Rebuttal

(2)

Mel forms a barrier around herself that reflects projectiles from enemy champions, makes her invulnerable for a second and gives Mel bonus movement speed.

Rebuttal is perfect for catching out projectile-cashed champions like Jhin and Ezreal, or even deflecting ultimates like Nami's Tidal Wave back to the enemy team. If the enemy team doesn't have any projectiles to deflect, you can always use Rebuttal to block high-damage abilities like Jhin's 4th shot.

Solar Snare

(3)

Mel fires a radiating orb, rooting enemies at its centre for a few seconds, dealing magic damage. The orb builds up an area around it that slows enemies and deals more magic damage.

Solar Snare is great for setting up kills and creating crowd control opportunities in both the laning phase and teamfights.

Golden Eclipse

(Ultimate)

Passive: Overwhelm's damage from Mel's Passive Radiant Volley is increased.

Active: Mel strikes all enemies marked with Overwhelm regardless of range, dealing extra damage for each stack of Overwhelm. As Mel scales, the damage boost from Golden Eclipse becomes deadly, making her an unstoppable force in the late game.

Mel's Build Breakdown

Boots of Mana

Blackfire Torch

Liandry's Torment

Rabadon's Deathcap

Void Staff

Infinity Orb

Blackfire Torch adds a burn effect that adds extra damage every time her abilities hit. Since Mel can consistently damage multiple enemies and stack her Overwhelm, she keeps the burn active while also gaining Ability Power.

Liandry's Torment adds significant damage to Mel's abilities, especially against high-health or tanky champions.

Rabadon's Deathcap gives Mel a massive boost of Ability Power, which scales incredibly well into the mid/late game. It's an essential item to have in your build.

For runes we have:

Arcane Comet

Arcane Comet synergises well with Mel's kit, ensuring her poke abilities hit harder. Radiant Volley's slow and Solar Snare's root help guarantee Comet lands, giving you more damage throughout the game.

Botanist

Botanist gives Mel health and mana through Honeyfruit, which helps with Mel's sustain during the laning phase, and it also gives a little bit of gold.

Transcendence

Transcendence gives Mel the Ability Haste she needs so you can use her poke abilities more often to be a threat throughout the game. The Ability Haste also helps reduce the cooldown of Rebuttal to boost Mel's survivability.

Nimbus Cloak

Nimbus Cloak gives Mel extra movement speed after using a Summoner Spell, allowing her to chase enemies or escape from any danger.

Cut Down

Cut Down helps Mel deal more damage to tankier targets, which she normally struggles to burst.

Flash

Barrier

Flash is the most important Summoner Spell for Mel. With Rebuttal being the only defensive tool when it's on cooldown, Mel needs another way of escaping enemy ganks.

Barrier helps with Mel's survivability as someone who has no mobility. It can also be used to win early game duels and skirmishes.

Early Game

In the Early Game, Mel wants to focus on poking enemies with Radiant Volley and Arcane Comet. Try to save your Radiant Volley for when the enemy walks up to hit last hit minions so that you can guarantee more damage on the enemy. If this is not possible, focus on farming with Radiant Volley and use Solar Snare when in range to root enemies before Radiant Volley to guarantee damage. Rebuttal matters a lot. It can be used to reflect key abilities or combos, or more importantly, it can be used to be immune to damage. Try to save Rebuttal to absorb the most damage possible.

Late Game

In the Late Game, Mel wants to group with her team and focus on teamfights. When it comes to teamfights, you want to stand behind your front line and deal as much damage as possible. Even with your long-range poke abilities, sometimes it's best just to hit the first enemy that's in front of you. Focus on crowd controlling the front line with your Solar Snare. With your ultimate and crowd control, you can focus on executing an individual target when you have enough Overwhelm stacks, but if a squishy target walks too close, you have enough burst damage to kill them instantly.

Conclusion

Overall, Mel is a unique mage that has the outplay potential to turn a teamfights and with her poke and burst damage she can carry every fight during the game.

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