mel demon

Runes

Sorcery

• Arcane CometDamaging a champion with an ability hurls a damaging comet at their location.
• Manaflow BandHitting an enemy champion with an ability permanently increases your maximum mana by 25, up to 250 mana. After reaching 250 bonus mana, restore 1% of your missing mana every 5 seconds.
• TranscendenceGain bonuses upon reaching the following levels: Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level 8: +5 Ability Haste Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.
• Gathering StormGain increasing amounts of AD or AP, adaptive over the course of the game.

Precision

• Presence of MindRestore a small amount of mana or energy when damaging an enemy champion. Takedowns restore mana or energy.
• Legend: HasteTakedowns on enemies grant permanent Basic Ability Haste.

Stat shards

• Ability hasteOffense
• Adaptive forceFlex
• Health scalingDefense

Summoner spells

• Teleport
• Flash

Skill order

Which ability to level at each of the first 18 levels.

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
QRadiant Barrage	Q			Q	Q			Q		Q
WRebuttal			W									W			W	W		W
ESolar Snare		E					E		E		E			E
RGolden Eclipse						R							R				R

1. Max order:
2. Q
3. ›E
4. ›W

Items

The core items cost 9,200 gold.

Full build

• Seraph's Embrace
• Actualizer
• Rabadon's Deathcap
• Sorcerer's Shoes

Damage profile

Stats from the full build (10,300 gold)

• Ability power290
• Mana1,300
• Move speed45

Matchups

How Mel fares against these champions, with the author's tips.

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  CaitlynEven

The most-played build for this champion and role: 1,022 games on patch 26.22, 48.5% win rate.