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Singed Guide

the Mad Chemist

Tank

Mage

Tier S Top

Singed, the Mad Chemist, is a tank and mage champion of medium difficulty. Across our 367 analysed ranked games, Singed is mostly played in Top (82% of its games), and more rarely in Mid (18%), with a 52.6% win rate in that role: tier S among Top champions (#5 of 48, ranked by win rate). Singed's damage is mostly magic (92%): magic resistance items are therefore effective against this champion. Win rate stays steady whatever the game length (51.2% to 55.1%): a reliable pick in every phase of the game.

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Average KDA

3.8 / 5.8 / 7.8

ratio 2.0

Damage / min

701

CS / min

8.0

Gold / min

404

Kill participation

37%

Vision / min

0.76

Averages measured over 302 Top games played with Singed, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Written guide · based on the official ability texts

Singed is a tank-mage who leaves a poison trail behind him and gains speed when passing champions. Mega Adhesive slows and grounds, Fling knocks the enemy behind him (rooted if they land in the adhesive), and Insanity Potion improves his stats and makes his trail apply Grievous Wounds.

The capture

When: An enemy is within Fling range.

Mega Adhesive slows and grounds the enemies in the area; Fling knocks the enemy behind you: if they land in the adhesive, they are rooted.

The chase

Q AA AA

When: You are chasing a carry.

Insanity Potion improves your stats and your trail applies Grievous Wounds.

See all 3 Singed combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Your poison trail damages the enemies who follow it. Fling on a target who lands in Mega Adhesive roots them.

Common mistakes

Chasing without using your trail.
Casting Mega Adhesive without an enemy trajectory.
Using Insanity Potion too early: it has a limited duration.

Riot's official tips for playing Singed

Poison Trail is very effective at farming and harassing, allowing Singed to dominate the flow of whatever lane he's in.
Use Insanity Potion to trick your opponents into chasing you through your Poison Trail.
Flinging enemies into your tower can deal heavy amounts of damage to them.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Protoplasm Harness, Rylai's Crystal Scepter, and Liandry's Torment (57 games, 63.2% win rate).

Protoplasm Harness

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Liandry's Torment

57 games · 63.2%

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Riftmaker

Liandry's Torment

25 games · 68.0%

Rylai's Crystal Scepter

Dead Man's Plate

Liandry's Torment

25 games · 64.0%

Skill order

Max order : Q > E > W47.6% · 42 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q	●			●	●		●		●
W			●											●	●
E		●						●		●		●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 46 games).

Starting items

Doran's Ring

Health Potion

Health Potion38.2% · 34 games

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3730 gold, 79 CS, 4629 XP. At 15 min: 5682 gold, 124 CS, 8082 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost56.9% · 153 games

Flash + Ignite47.7% · 107 games

Ghost + Teleport50.0% · 20 games

Most-played runes

Deathfire Touch + Precision

54.6% · 108 games

Primary tree · Sorcery

Nimbus Cloak99%

Celerity83%

Scorch89%

Secondary tree · Precision

Triumph94%

Last Stand72%

Shards

Adaptive force99%

Adaptive force64%

Health scaling41%

Deathfire Touch + Resolve

50.0% · 60 games

Primary tree · Sorcery

Nimbus Cloak98%

Celerity97%

Scorch53%

Secondary tree · Resolve

Overgrowth52%

Unflinching45%

Shards

Adaptive force98%

Adaptive force53%

Tenacity and slow resist47%

Conqueror + Sorcery

55.1% · 49 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph100%

Legend: Alacrity82%

Last Stand96%

Secondary tree · Sorcery

Nimbus Cloak98%

Celerity80%

Shards

Adaptive force98%

Adaptive force51%

Health scaling51%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Singed's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team55.1% · 89 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 54.2%

Liandry's Torment 56.3%

Protoplasm Harness 60.0% ▲

Force of Nature 46.2%

Riftmaker 53.8%

Jak'Sho, The Protean 33.3%

The item that stands out most is Protoplasm Harness: 60.0% win rate, +3 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team44.2% · 86 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Liandry's Torment 47.0% ▼

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 48.1% ▼

Protoplasm Harness 47.4%

Dead Man's Plate 61.1%

Randuin's Omen 33.3%

Riftmaker 50.0%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team56.7% · 127 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Rylai's Crystal Scepter 58.0% ▲

Liandry's Torment 63.5% ▲

Protoplasm Harness 59.5%

Riftmaker 59.1%

Hextech Rocketbelt 58.8%

Jak'Sho, The Protean 53.3%

The item that stands out most is Liandry's Torment: 63.5% win rate, +7 points versus its usual win rate.

Counters and matchups

How to play against Singed

Keep your distance to avoid being Flung back into Singed's allies.
Singed needs to run close to your team to be effective. Try to take advantage of this by using crowd control effects on him while attacking his allies.
Be careful when chasing Singed. He's very difficult to bring down, and can leave his Poison Trail to damage you in your pursuit.

Riot's official tips.

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed.

Singed Top: what our games say

Laning phase against the Top average

Measure	Singed	Top average	Gap
Gold at 10 min	3730	3580	+150
CS at 10 min	79	71	+8
XP at 10 min	4629	4754	−126
Gold at 15 min	5682	5655	+27
CS at 15 min	124	111	+12
XP at 15 min	8082	8297	−215

Measured over 46 Singed games with a timeline; the average covers 82 champions played Top in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

short under 25 min55.1 %89 games

medium-length 25 to 35 min51.8 %170 games

long over 35 min51.2 %43 games

Best result: short (under 25 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.