How does this review work:I'll be going into four 'main' topics: Cheatsheet, Content, Presentation and What can be Improved?. All of these topics alone can turn a great guide into an even better one. Just knowing the ins and outs of your champion alone won't be enough if you're not able to properly convey said information. The end goal is always to make it easier for the readers that come to your guide of course.I'll specify these main categories with purple text within this review, as well as some subcategories which will mostly depend on your guide chapters and for that I'll use the following rating system:

Cheatsheet

>Runes: Decent

I feel like the notes here could be made much shorter. There are a lot of wording that isn't really needed I think. For example, the Vanguard Path is essentially just "The attack speed, movement speed and tenacity shards followed with Magical Footwear & Jack of all Trades will allow you to hit the 10 stacks you need as early as your fourth item." - at the same time this page isn't really used for perfect kiting distance, it's mainly used for sustain, you want Fleet Footwork and similar to survive in lane, you can reach 225 stacks and kite perfectly with all rune page options.

Same goes for Arcane Comet - you can sum this up with: "the purpose of this rune page is for the early game and scaling. coupled with Treasure Hunter, you'll have an easier time reaching your 1st item."

I feel like these rune pages should explain the purpose of needing to pick them, as a reader these "paths" don't really tell me too much. When should I pick Fleet? When is Comet good? When is such a low usage keystone like PtA actually used?

>Summoner Spells: Adequate

Barrier has no notes. I know they're the standard spells, but why? Why is this spell good on this champion, or on most ADCs? Why should I pick Barrier over other options? Your other notes explain this better.

Ignite's notes could be shortened, from your description it more or less just explains: "This spell is best used combined with Arcane Comet/ Press the Attack. If used with PtA, you'll have a very aggressive lane. If used with Comet it'll ensure you have proper kill threat as Hubris relies on you getting early kills to be useful. This spell is also very good for the healing reduction it provides".

"Standart" should be -> "Standard"

>Items: Decent

I feel like the notes for the different builds could also be made a bit better. Even after reading them all I really got out of it was mostly that 1st build with Essence Reaver & Spear of Shojin is for mid-game stages fully reliant on stacking Jack of all Trades. 2nd build with Hubris & Essence Reaver is a high-risk high-reward build that should only ever be used if you're already ahead and feel confident in your inability to die or get caught. 3rd and last build is mainly for the late game scaling if you're not confident in the 2 builds prior.

When it comes to the item descriptions themselves after the full build, none of the notes really explain to me why these items are picked. Yes Serylda's Grudge, Lord Dominik's Regards or Maw of Malmortius is for situational situations, but why? Why should I as a reader pick these items? You can explain this pretty easily, for example Serylda is great for slows and armor pen, LDR is more specifically tailored towards armor pen and only if the enemy team has a lot of tanks and/or stacking a lot of armor. As for Maw, you only buy this item against enemy AP with burst, so champs like Fizz, Syndra, LeBlanc or Evelynn - champs that would 1shot you without this item.

>Ability Order: Exquisite

Note: The notes here are much better!

>Threats & Synergies: Exquisite

Note: Ideally you could include more synergies, there are definitely more supports for Smolder than just 10, but otherwise this section is great.

Content

>Introduction: Exquisite

>General: Exquisite

>Pros & Cons: Exquisite

>Playstyle: Adequate

I think the "Early game is no longer just about survival; it's about stat-stacking." for Jack of all Trades is wrong, or at least misleading. As Smolder you're always stat-stacking, the purpose of you as a champion is to constantly be stacking, you don't have to run JoAT just to be able to stack properly. This description could use some changing.

Phase 2 summed up could probably just say "Focus on farming and reaching item goals, if skirmishes or teamfights break out you should always look to partake and be with your team. Your core philosophy is to stack and get closer to 225 stacks, you're not much of a champion until that goal is achieved."

Phase 3 I believe could be reworded. The "infinite reset loop" isn't making much sense. Yes at 225 stacks you get an execute, and can continue to burn targets, but it's not a reset loop, you're still required to put in the effort, it's not handed for free. After all executes are only when enemy HP is below 6.5%, never otherwise.

At the same time your E and Q aren't effectively permanent, 3.5s for his Q at highest rank and 16s for his E. More stacks increases the damage of your abilities, but they still have cooldowns.

"At this stage, your Q cooldown is practically nonexistent." The cooldown is not nonexistent, 3.5 seconds. You can say with the help of some items & the ability haste from them, it could get closer to not having a cooldown, but in the end it's still gonna be there. So if this section is based on that, it might be a little confusing.

>Runes & Builds: Exquisite

Note: Here you explain way better WHY each rune page & keystone is picked. Why isn't this your notes? These descriptions are perfect. Against high-treat divers or heavy poke? Go Fleet Footwork. Got a reliable frontline and want to shred targets (more notably tanky team comps) right infront of you? Go Press the Attack. Are you playing Mid or against mages that play very safe? You should go Arcane Comet. This section explained to me way more why this is picked than your cheatsheet did.

>Detailed look for Abilities & Skills: Exquisite

>Armory: Adequate

Spear of Shojin is no longer optional, yet it's only bought in 2 of the 3 builds where in one build it's built so late you could almost make the argument it's pointless? Kinda feels like a very optional item if you're not running the complete standard build.

I believe some item descriptions could be made a little better, instead of reiterating the tooltip, think more like "This is the main reason you build this item" "Maw against AP-burst that can 1shot you" "LDR into tanky champions where the armor pen is required" "Bloodthirster for healing and sustain" "GA for teamfights where you dying or living is a big deal" "Essence Reaver to combat potential mana sustains you'll have to deal with throughout the entire early game" etc. etc. descriptions like these are so much more useful to me as a reader, it tells me exactly why this item is good on Smolder.

>Combos: Exquisite

>Tips & Tricks: Exquisite

>Final Words: Exquisite

Presentation

> Execution: Adequate

Presentation wise it's very well made. You can definitely see that effort has been made to format information cleanly and they're not too difficult to read through or to understand. Each section feels like it stands on its own and is unique. If anything I think more could be done here as the formatting is so well made, if you decide to expand the guide further I would definitely keep this formatting style.

There are however a lot of grammatical errors present in the guide, excluding some descriptions or notes that could just be shortened, they use so many sentences to explain something that could have been explained in maybe a sentence or two.

Biggest example is again: "The Vanguard Rune setup is engineered for ultimate utility and mid-game scaling ... to navigate Smolder's early game vulnerabilities while securing the mana needed for constant stacking. The core innovation lies in the specialized shard selection ... This synergy allowes smolder to complete the 10stack threshold as early as his fourth item." etc. - it's way too long and all to really just say: "The Vanguard Rune setup is really good against heavy poke lanes or difficult matchups where the sustained healing is required to be able to stay in lane and stack effectively while still allowing you to complete your 10-stack threshold as early as your 4th item." Because that's what this rune page is mainly for, lane sustain against matchups that suck - so anything from a Draven to a Syndra.

>Theme of guide (color scheme): Exquisite

I really like the color theme used, it's very Smolder like. The orange is very fitting. If you do expand upon the guide then I urge to keep this color palette going.

What can be Improved?

Making guides more extensive takes a very long time and a lot of dedication. With that said, I do believe that your main focuses aside from what you've already got going should be placed on:

- Gameplay clips / images to visualize stuff that you're explaining, these go a very long way
- How to Play when you're getting ganked, both by your own & opposing jungler, how does that 2v3 work?
- Vision Control - You're a ADC after all, you're constantly and forever one bad ward away from instant death, regardless if you're ahead or behind.
- Wave Management - ADCs have them as well, these come in the form of Freezing, slow pushing & fast pushing. How are these done? Why are they done? What do you achieve from each one?
- Lane Priority - What is this concept and how is it used, as a laner your jungler is at full mercy to you, whoever is able to comfortably push their lane can help their junglers faster whenever they intend to do something
- Gameplay in general! How do you play the early game? What about the middle game? Late game? Right now you've explained the core playstyle, but you haven't explained how you play these game phases. How is the laning phase played dependant on who you face? Mid-game is almost dominantly about sitting in Mid & farming, or sidelaning. Late game is all about being with your team and securing objectives, play around your strengths.
- How do you play Smolder during teamfights? Who's your target and why? Do you have to play differently depending on who you're facing or which champion on the enemy team is extremely fed? Does your playstyle change if there's an 8/0 assassin on the enemy team vs an 8/0 Ornn?
- How do you play Smolder when ahead or behind? Do you have to play differently if you're going 0/5/0 and the opposing botlane is winning vs going 10/1/5 and you're winning?
- Jungle Tracking - a big part of playing ADC is tracking the opposing jungler, if you know where the jungler is you can play accordingly. Aggressive if they're nowhere near you, safer if they are.
- Tempo - what is this concept? and how is it used? why is it used? what does it aim to achieve?
- Kiting - what is kiting? how does one actually kite properly? what does it achieve?
- Warding - how to ward, where, why?

Overall Thoughts

This is a pretty good guide. Like I already mentioned, if you continue to work on expanding some gameplay concepts of your guide, making the cheatsheet a bit more consistent and fixing some of the grammar issues, I'm very confident this guide can become a solid resource for anyone hoping to pick up Smolder in the Botlane. I hope this review is of help and I wish you good luck on your journey. :)