Lissandra vs Smolder Counter Pick

Identical attack ranges make this an unusual mid matchup. Both Lissandra and Smolder operate at 550 units, so neither spaces the other out and the exchange reduces to what each does with that shared distance. She wins 59.0% of 117 games on patch 16.13.1 because her version of a trade is immediate and his is conditional.

• Dragon Practice needs stacks before Super Scorcher Breath becomes a threat, and stacks come from hitting champions and finishing kills, both of which a root and a stun deny.
• His damage is physical, which puts her 22 base armor under pressure, while his own 24 armor and 575 health face magic damage; he is also the frailer body at 2,275 health by level 18 against her 2,490.
• Flap, Flap, Flap ignores terrain and bombards the lowest-health enemy, making it an escape as much as an attack, and Frozen Tomb answers it directly.

The practical line treats every level before he stacks as the window. Once MMOOOMMMM! is available his contribution to a fight arrives from off-screen, and a mage moving at 325 has no way to reach the caster. The two sit level on difficulty at 6 apiece, and their base attack damage is nearly identical at 55 against 58, so the early autoattack exchange is closer than a mage against a marksman usually gets. Neither outpaces the other either, 325 against 330.