Mel/Patch history
This page documents all known changes for 
Mel since the champion's initial release in V25.02.
Release version[edit | edit source]
Searing Brilliance
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to apply Overwhelm stacks against
Dr. Mundo's 
Goes Where He Pleases while its immunity is active.
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to apply Overwhelm stacks against
- Stats
- Base health increased to 630 from 600.
- Searing Brilliance
- Projectile base damage increased to 8 – 25 (based on level) from 5 – 20 (based on level).
Rebuttal
- Bug Fix: No longer fails to destroy projectiles if the barrier is hit from certain angles.
Solar Snare
- Bug Fix: DoT debuff no longer displays debug text.
- General
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused Mel's basic attacks to disable Nidalee's W.
- Spell indicators are now gold-colored.
Radiant Volley
- Cast range reduced to 950 from 1000.
- Bolt speed reduced to 4500 from 5000.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug that caused the cooldown to reset when killing enemy champions affected by
Twitch's 
Deadly Venom applied by Rebuttal.
- Rebuttal
- Duration reduced to 0.75 seconds from 1 second.
- Mana cost increased to 80 / 60 / 40 / 20 / 0 from 60 / 45 / 30 / 15 / 0.
- Base damage modifier reduced to 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60% from 40 / 47.5 / 55 / 62.5 / 70%.
- Bug Fix: Some critical strike attacks no longer bypass the effect.
- Bug Fix: No longer always incorrectly reflects projectiles from
Lulu's 
Pix, Faerie Companion back to Pix.
- Solar Snare
- Orb root duration reduced to 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 seconds from 1.75 / 1.875 / 2 / 2.125 / 2.25.
- Orb damage increased to 60 / 105 / 150 / 195 / 240 from 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220.
- Orb AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 50% AP.
- Bug Fix: Both the orb and the field now properly apply as area damage instead of spell damage.
Golden Eclipse
- Active per-stack AP ratio increased to 3.5% AP from 2.5% AP.
- Bug Fix: No longer illegally resets the ability's cooldown after reflecting
Draven's 
Whirling Death.
- General
- Adjusted facial expression.
- Bug Fix: Non-unique-event voicelines that trigger from
Ambessa no longer fail to play more lines than one per event.
Arcane Councilor Mel
- Dress is now whiter and brighter.
- Rebuttal
- Bug Fix: Reflected
Ashe's 
Hawkshot no longer additionally grants vision to the original user's team. - Bug Fix: Reflected
Dark Cosmic Jhin's 
Lotus Trap now plays the correct SFX. - Bug Fix: If
Qiyana's 
Edge of Ixtal is reflected and that missile would apply her 
Royal Privilege, Mel no longer receives the innate effects of Royal Privilege for the rest of the game.
- Bug Fix: Reflected
- Searing Brilliance
- Overwhelm first stack AP ratio reduced to 10% AP from 25% AP.
- Radiant Volley
- Damage per explosion reduced to 13 / 15.5 / 18 / 20.5 / 23 from 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25.
- Total damage reduced to 78 / 108.5 / 144 / 184.5 / 230 from 78 / 112 / 152 / 198 / 250.
- Damage per explosion reduced to 13 / 15.5 / 18 / 20.5 / 23 from 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25.
- Golden Eclipse
- Overwhelm first stack bonus damage reduced to 60 / 70 / 80 from 60 / 77.5 / 95.
- Active first stack base damage reduced to 100 / 150 / 200 from 125 / 175 / 225.
- Active first stack damage AP ratio reduced to 30% AP from 40% AP.
- V25.S1.2 - Added
- Searing Brilliance - Innate
- Innate: Mel's damaging basic attacks and abilities apply a stack of Overwhelm to enemies for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent applications and stacking infinitely.
- Overwhelm: Store 50 / 65 / 80 / 95 (based on Golden Eclipse's rank) (+ 25% AP) magic damage on the affected enemy with the first stack, reduced「 to 60% 」against
minions. For each stack, store an additional 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 (based on Golden Eclipse's rank) (+ 0.75% AP) magic damage on the target. If the total post-mitigation damage stored would deal 
fatal damage to the target (including through 
shields), the next stack will consume them all to deal the damage. - Innate - Searing Brilliance: Mel's ability casts each generate 3 stacks of Searing Brilliance for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent casts and stacking up to 9 times. Her next basic attack consumes all stacks of Searing Brilliance to additionally fire an equal number of blazing projectiles at the target. Each projectile deals 5 – 20 (based on level) (+ 1% AP) magic damage.
- Radiant Volley - Q
- Active: Mel launches a barrage of 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 luminous bolts at the target location over 0.7 seconds which distribute evenly in the area. Each bolt explodes upon landing to deal 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 (+ 8.5% AP) magic damage to nearby enemies, reduced to 75% against minions.
- The bolts momentarily grant
sight during their travel, while the explosions grant sight over their target area. Both can see through 
brush and terrain. - Cost: 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 mana.
- Cooldown: 10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 seconds.
- Cast Time: 0.25 seconds, Speed: 5000, Effect Radius: 220 / 100, Spread:
60.
- Active: Mel launches a barrage of 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 luminous bolts at the target location over 0.7 seconds which distribute evenly in the area. Each bolt explodes upon landing to deal 13 / 16 / 19 / 22 / 25 (+ 8.5% AP) magic damage to nearby enemies, reduced to 75% against
- Rebuttal - W
- Active: Mel forms a protective barrier around herself for 1 second, becoming
invulnerable to non-
turret damage and gaining 
30% decaying bonus movement speed. All hostile non-turret 
projectiles that collide with the barrier will be destroyed instantly before Mel fires the same projectiles as her own, either toward or in the direction of the original sources, or toward herself. - Replicated projectiles have the same features that the original ones do, but they retain 40 / 47.5 / 55 / 62.5 / 70% (+ 5% per 100 AP) of the damage that the original ones would deal, and all of their damage is converted to magic.
- Cost: 60 / 45 / 30 / 15 / 0 mana.
- Cooldown: 35 / 32 / 29 / 26 / 23 seconds.
- Cast Time: None, Effect Radius: 175.
- Active: Mel forms a protective barrier around herself for 1 second, becoming
- Solar Snare - E
- Active: Mel fires an orb in the target direction that grants sight of its surroundings for 0.25 seconds as it travels. Enemies hit by the orb are dealt 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 (+ 50% AP) magic damage and
rooted for a 1.75 / 1.875 / 2 / 2.125 / 2.25 seconds. - The orb emanates a field of solar radiation that additionally expands after a 0.5-second delay. Enemies within the field are dealt 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10 (+ 1% AP) magic damage and
slowed by 30% every 0.125 seconds, lingering for 0.75 seconds after exiting. - Both the orb and the field of Solar Snare deal 50% damage against minions.
- Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 mana.
- Cooldown: 12 / 11.5 / 11 / 10.5 / 10 seconds.
- Cast Time: 0.25 seconds, Range: 1050, Speed: 1000, Effect Radius:
80 / 80 / 260, Sight Radius: 400.
- Active: Mel fires an orb in the target direction that grants
- Golden Eclipse - R
- Passive: Overwhelm stacks store 15 / 30 / 45 (+ 1 / 2 / 3) more damage.
- Active: Mel unleashes a radiant blast on all enemies affected by Overwhelm, dealing magic damage equal to 125 / 175 / 225 (+ 40% AP) (+ 4 / 7 / 10 (+ 2.5% AP) per Overwhelm stack on the target) to each target. Enemies are also
revealed for 1 second from the start of the cast time. - An enemy champion affected by Overwhelm is required to cast this ability. The target does not have to be visible to be hit by this ability.
- Cost: 100 mana.
- Cooldown: 120 / 100 / 80 seconds.
- Cast Time: 0.75 seconds, Target Range: Global.
- Passive:
References
- ↑ X — League of Legends Dev Team (24 January 2025) 🚨MEL NERFS INCOMING🚨
- ↑ X — Riot Phroxzon (24 January 2025) Mel has made her debut on the Rift and we've been thrilled to see the player reception for her!
See also[edit | edit source]
MinionMinions are autonomous units that spawn periodically from their nexus and advance along the lanes toward the enemy nexus. They basic attack any enemy unit or structure they find in their way, but can be killed for 
gold.
There are four kind of minions: 
melee minions, 
caster minions, 
siege minions and 
super minions.
Death
health is reduced to zero, thereby being killed. The unit can no longer act and is removed or becomes a corpse.On player death, they can view the death recap and the shop to purchase items, and some item actives can be used while dead.
Shield health that absorbs the next instances of damage in place of actual health. This can be improved by various items and effects depending on the type of shielding.
Incoming shields can trigger bonus effects from 
Shield Bash. Outgoing shields can trigger bonus effects from 
Summon Aery, 
Ardent Censer, and 
Staff of Flowing Water. Shield reduction effects, exclusively 
Serpent's Fang, reduce all incoming and outgoing shields.
Sight center range. A line of vision cannot extend beyond terrain or an unrevealed brush.
Sight can also refer to an effect that makes a unit visible regardless of the fog of war or brush, allowing them to be targeted. Standard sight cannot see 
stealthed units, but 
True Sight can.
Nearsight is a 
crowd control debuff that inhibits sight; allied vision is lost in addition to a reduced sight radius.
Obscured vision is similar to sight in a way that it can observe units, but does not render units targetable, rather it exposes their position and informs of their presence.
Unobstructed vision is a form of sight that allows a unit to be able to see their full vision radius, ignoring any obstructions that would otherwise restrict visibility.- All effects that use
unit-targeting require sight of the target. Delayed unit-targeted attacks and spells can cancel if sight of the selected target is suddenly lost.
BrushBrush is a common terrain feature that obstructs sight for any unit outside of it.
Centered rangeCentered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.
- Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
- It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.
InvulnerabilityA unit that is Invulnerable reduces all damage taken to 0 and prevents effects that trigger from damage.
TurretA turret, also called a tower, is a fortification that defends a part of territory. It provides vision of the area and autonomously fires homing bolts at nearby enemies, establishing a defensive ground for allies.
Turrets are most notable in 
Classic, defending against waves of enemy Minions from their ultimate goal of destroying the nexus. Champions work to destroy enemy turrets to push their assault into the enemies' territory. Turrets visually fall apart as they take damage.
ProjectileA projectile or missile is any entity not classified as a unit (
champion, minion, 
monster, etc.) that travels at any given velocity.
- Moving units are not considered projectiles under any circumstance (including
dashing units, 
airborne units, or units thrown by some abilities such as 
Force of Will or 
Roar of the Slayer.). 
Braum's 
Unbreakable, Mel's Rebuttal, 
Samira's 
Blade Whirl, and 
Yasuo's 
Wind Wall can block, destroy and / or stop projectiles.
- Some abilities will
destroy all currently incoming homing projectiles.
Root
knockdown a target that is already performing a dash. Rooted units can still be displaced.Root is an
immobilizing effect.
Moving includes movement commands. Movement spells include all dash and 
blink abilities - including 
Recall / 
Empowered Recall and the 
summoner spells Flash, 
Teleport, 
Hexflash, and Dash, plus a number of additional cases.
| Interrupts: | Interrupts  movement channels unless otherwise stated.
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|---|---|
| Reduction: | The duration is affected by  Tenacity.
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| Resist: | Resisted by  crowd control immunity and Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases.
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| Removal: | Removed by  Cleanses.
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Crowd control applied by one's self or an ally cannot be countered in any way, neither reduced in duration, resisted, nor removed unless special cased to do so.
Slow movement speed for the duration. Slow percentages cannot reduce a target below 110 movement speed. Some slows will instead modify the target's movement speed to a static value, which may not be further reduced nor increased.Only the slow with the highest value is taken into movement speed calculations. All additional slows are ignored until the higher-valued slow wears off. The strength of slows may amplify or decay over their duration. Slows of the same debuff cannot stack and will instead refresh on each application unless otherwise stated.
| Interrupts: | Does not interrupt any actions. |
|---|---|
| Reduction: | The duration is affected by Tenacity. The strength is reduced by |
| Resist: | Resisted by crowd control immunity and  slow immunity.
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| Removal: | Removed by Cleanses,  Garen's  Decisive Strike,  Master Yi's  Highlander and  Nunu's  Biggest Snowball Ever!.
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Edge rangeEdge range is calculated from the edge of a source unit's hitbox to the edge of a target unit's hitbox.
- Edge range is mostly used for basic attacks; skill shots; and point-blank areas of effect (including auras).
- These become more effective against large champions, as the source gains more reach against them. This may be favorable or unfavorable: durable champions tend to be larger and thus easier to hit, and frail champions tend to be smaller and more difficult to hit.
Standard sightStandard sight reveals units through Fog of War and brush, but not stealth. It does not bypass nearsight effects.