Mel
Figures on this page are from League of Legends patch 16.18.1.
The win, pick, and ban rate figures here are a third-party League of Legends statistics provider's aggregation of match data that originates with Riot Games — Riot doesn't itself publish win-rate statistics. See how it works for the method, including the per-tier noise-width (σ) calibration Should I Dodge publishes on top of that raw data — how far a rate actually sits from meaningless, not something the provider itself measures.
| Role | Win Rate | Pick Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Mid | 46.5% | 3.7% |
| ADC | 47.3% | 2.2% |
| Support | 44.7% | 2.1% |
About 25.0% of games at this tier see Mel banned before anyone even picks a role — one number for the whole champion, not something that genuinely differs lane to lane. It's shown here alongside Mel's Mid numbers, the highest-pick-rate role, purely because that's the row this page leads with. Why isn't this broken down by role?
Mel's Mid win rate is 3.5 percentage points below an even 50% — Should I Dodge's win-probability model varies by about 4.8 percentage points of standard deviation from lobby to lobby across all ranks, purely from which champions get drawn, so this gap is smaller than that noise, not solid evidence the champion is unusually strong or weak right now.
Mel is tracked in 3 roles at this tier scope; the per-tier, threat, and counters reporting below all use its highest-pick-rate role, Mid — its numbers in ADC (2.2% pick rate) and Support (2.1% pick rate) stay visible in the table above but aren't carried into the rest of this page.
Mel's Mid Win Rate By Tier
| Tier | Win Rate | Pick Rate | Edge (noise-widths) | Clears 0.5σ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron | 46.8% | 7.5% | 0.43σ | No |
| Bronze | 47.4% | 5.9% | 0.43σ | No |
| Silver | 47.2% | 4.8% | 0.48σ | No |
| Gold | 46.4% | 3.9% | 0.66σ | Yes |
| Platinum | 46.1% | 3.1% | 0.78σ | Yes |
| Emerald | 45.4% | 2.3% | 1.02σ | Yes |
| Diamond | 44.7% | 1.8% | 1.21σ | Yes |
| Master | 44.3% | 1.5% | 1.20σ | Yes |
| Grandmaster | 50.9% | 1.3% | 0.12σ | No |
| Challenger | 47.6% | 1.1% | 0.19σ | No |
Mel's Mid win rate ranges from 44.3% at Master to 50.9% at Grandmaster across the 10 of 10 ranked tiers with published data for this role — a 6.6-point spread. Measured against each tier's own noise floor, that's 0.12σ at Grandmaster and 1.20σ at Master, with only the Master figure clearing the 0.5σ bar Should I Dodge itself requires before calling a reading anything but Neutral. See how noise-widths are calculated and what they mean for each rank.
Should I Dodge's curated read has Mel's power curve as no strong lean either way — a community-consensus judgment about where the champion's power peaks, not measured win-rate-by-duration data (the stats source doesn't publish that).
Mel's kit doesn't flag any of the seven threats Should I Dodge tracks for counter-building — healing, hard crowd control, burst, poke, sustained auto-attack damage, shielding, stealth — and that's a real verdict, not a gap in the table.
Should I Dodge maintains Mel's scaling lean and kit-threat reads above by hand, one champion at a time, across the whole roster — not generated from the win-rate numbers on this page, and not refreshed automatically when those numbers move.
Who Counters Mel?
Matchups below are for Mel's Mid role -- its highest-pick-rate lane, played in 3.7% of its recorded games at this tier.
Champions That Counter Mel
| Champion | Win Rate vs Mel | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
 Gwen |
60.9% | 2.27σ |
 Xerath |
59.3% | 1.95σ |
 Fizz |
59.0% | 1.87σ |
 Aurelion Sol |
58.9% | 1.86σ |
 Nasus |
57.2% | 1.51σ |
Champions Mel Counters
| Champion | Win Rate vs Mel | Edge (noise-widths) |
|---|---|---|
 Smolder |
46.3% | 0.78σ |
 Vex |
48.6% | 0.30σ |
 Ryze |
48.8% | 0.26σ |
 Ahri |
49.6% | 0.08σ |
 Morgana |
49.8% | 0.04σ |
The stats source lists at most five champions in each direction for Mel: 5 listed as countering it here, 5 it counters back, with a tight, 4-point spread — none of them stand out much from the others among them — most matchups you could actually face in a real game simply aren't covered.
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Learn more: what a champion win rate actually means and why the same win rate means different things at different tiers.