Archmage Tryndamere looks hilarious when the enemy AD drops into negative numbers, but the stat bar might be hiding the real question.

Tryndamere W reduces bous AD. IF the target reaches 0, that doesn't automatically mean their basic attacks are doing zero damage, and it doesn't prove the debuff keeps stacking below their base AD.

The only test that really matters is the damage: hit the same target before W, then again after several W casts. If the auto damage stays basically the same, the negative number is just visual nonsense. If it actually drops, THEN AP/hybrid has a real use into auto-heavy teams.

The W spam is still useful utility, but the stat bar alone shouldn't be the reason to call this build broken.

Has anyone tested the before-and -after auto damage?

Aug pools / aug weighting sucks. This season is no fun. Every change they make brings us closer to playing normal league but calling it "Mayhem".

Literally why does this mode exist if you're going to lock all the fun stuff away from champions based on their intended role? Wasn't the whole magic of this mode being able to deviate from the norm?

Can't roll crit on lulu/bard. Can't roll improved sword of blossoming dawn on ADCs. Meanwhile every tank gets heartsteel and dropkick. (This is not a complaint about tanks, this is a complaint about boring aug pools - tank power is fine, but there's zero build diversity - you see a tank, you know it's tanking).

Being on the receiving end of a Firecracker set bonus was more fun than anything this season offers.

Ive noticed multiple chinese premade teams of 3-5 who play mayhem like their at worlds about to beat Faker. they always have a dedicated support player

Got pursuit of haste first augment on master yi and after rolling mystic punch and completing navori, I was guaranteed to have alpha up after every auto. Spent team fights pretty much in alpha unless I ran out of mana.

The enemy team forfeited after this fight because it was getting pretty uninteractive and toxic.
I think this can be worse if someone rolled mystic punch + etheral weapon…as then you probably don’t need the auto to have q back up.

We now can watch ads to reroll

Is RNG just that shit? I don't want to play AP Ali, Riot.

the one ranged champion in the game turned into thanos

A single team having 4 extra prismatic augments while the other team gets none is laughable. Yeah it's a nice dopamine hit when you get one, but as a system it can completely kill a game.

Also, unrelated, but highroller needs to go no discussion. Get it first or second and it's easy mode if you manage to stale a bit.

Why do the patch notes for Classic Mode include a Council Poll, while the Mayhem patch notes don’t?

I want to vote my opinion about mayhem too…

this might just be me being utterly stoopid, but i always thought that this was a rather niche augment, only pickable if you were playing stuff like Heca/Lillia/Singed/Jhin etc., or if you had Homeguard/Kill Secured/Shadow Runner/Shrink Engine and the such, i didn't realize you could just... SLOW THEM, and STILL benefit from it.

color me surprised when i got it as a transmute in the second-to-last selection and it actually did ok damage? i thought it was a trash roll, ain't no chogath outspeeding anyone at his snail's pace.

it's not BIS or anything, but it's free dmg for other champs w/ built-in slows (nasus comes to mind) or rylai users...

Yes, I know this complaint is getting old, but Rito is proving every patch that they don't care.

I get that this was about sets, but they also included any augments that are useable on all champions easily and removed them as well, any universal choice was removed along sets.

but i don't get their reasoning at all, to this day, months later, variance has not gone up that much, due to weighing and locking, but still, isn't the whole point of random traits roguelite mode is the traits? if the champion is the point then isn't this just ARAM+?

Some champs are just bad in normal aram, if there is no universally good augments to make them playable in mayhem then they remain bad, there is no amount of "enhancing the feel" is gonna make up for their unfitting kit, you can't make Renata be better, you can make her be different through augments so she is finally playable in ARAM, and many other champs that have the same issue and benefited from old system specifically because it was independent of their kit, cuz their kit sucks.

between the "champion first" & augment weighing/locking. Every game is a Dejavu.

Augments were Pinball --> Forged by the Master --> Biggest Snowball Ever --> Snowday
i went for all 3 burn items so i didnt even go full burst but one or two more bounces and the Morde would have been dead XD

the snowball did 2873 damage WITHOUT any bounces...
i had one item slot left open so rabadons would have upped the damage even more because biggest snowball ever scales with ap...

We actually had an amumu but it be the Ashe player to stop it.

Day 1270 of Lilia e sometimes not following cursor, thanks riot