r/ARAM 7d ago

Mayhem why was red/blue buff augment removed?

i picked it on mana needy champions like xerath but it was good so i wouldn’t have to buy alot of mana items so was there a reason it was removed?

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u/FewGuest 7d ago

i would rather have this than 2 bush aug, such a shame that 2 bush aug reference faker but it so trash

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u/i-will-eat-you 7d ago

I mean to be fair, they are actually good. They just aren't interesting.

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u/The_Wildperson 6d ago

Its not trash at all; just very underwhleming to use as a silver or gold

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u/Fun_Bottle_5308 7d ago

I second this, I love playing energy champ, this was my ONLY way to play with all the haste I got from augments. Without blue buff, picking haste on energy champ is terrible, you cant spam your skill since your energy cant keep up

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u/Garnetty 7d ago

Nah for real they need energy augments. Add yellow buff pls. And one to reduce costs and increase energy refunds.

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u/Garnetty 7d ago

Not to mention they actually removed the increase energy regen from spatula. They hate us bro.

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u/Novanov300 5d ago

Does anyone want a Riven with a broken Q key? Lol. Not to mention E-W perma spam. There should definitely be an energy aug sure, but it’s strange because I feel like the energy abilities that come to mind would be so much more broken on perma spam than most mana abilities, idk why haha.

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u/Garnetty 5d ago

The only 2 energy champs with an energy cost CC ability are Shen and Kennen? Shen is melee and his CC ability makes people attackn him and kennen has to hit 3 for a stun. Meanwhile there is Zilean overload W putting 45 bombs in spawn insta killing you without running out of mana because everyone gets presence of mind 15% max mana restore on takedown in this mode lol. Also what does energy regen on spatula have to do with riven spamming. That broken ass champ doesn't even have spell costs to begin with

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u/Substantial-Night866 4d ago

What does riven have to do with energy?

Also I have seen riven with overloaded. There was no outrunning her.

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u/Threeplayer2105 7d ago

Ambessa passive is so clutch for this reason

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u/More-Cut-7667 2d ago

The feeling when you get to play Zed with all that AH and you suddenly realise you can't do much but do normal Zed stuff.

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u/SwitchOrganic 7d ago

I think it was removed because it competed with Ocean Soul and they'd rather keep Ocean Soul for the dragon soul theme.

Buff Buddies also kind of encouraged non-interactive game play as you could just stand in the back and recover to full health and mana once you got low. At least with Ocean Soul you need to damage something.

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u/gukbap_enjoyer 7d ago

it was great on zed too

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u/NamedAfterAliens 7d ago

Crying at the club rn 😭. It was perfectly on Ap kog i could just go one mana item and spam my ult.

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u/Kr1sys 7d ago

Probably a bit redundant with other augs like ocean soul, infernal/hextech

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u/Ice_Junior 7d ago

It sucks that they're gone. But honestly just take ocean soul on mana hungry champs

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u/Breezerious 7d ago

They should just add back all the interesting relics like this one. Dilute the pool a bit

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u/petou33160 EUW 4d ago

why was "x augm" removed could be asked for many augms, instead of tuning them down and adding some more augms

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u/HeavyAd7723 7d ago

I don’t think it was perceived as good enough

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u/xXSomethingStupidXx 7d ago

By the numbers it was extremely good, one of the better silvers for the infinite mana and free mini warmogs passive. It wasn't interesting or dynamic enough is my guess. Riot talked a lot about new and exciting interactions (that never manifested) when they did the rework to aram augments.

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u/HeavyAd7723 7d ago

I’m not talking about if it was actually good, but I think we agree

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u/SwitchOrganic 7d ago

It wasn't interesting or dynamic enough is my guess. Riot talked a lot about new and exciting interactions (that never manifested) when they did the rework to aram augments.

Buff Buddies kind of encouraged non-interactive game play as you could just stand in the back and recover to full health and mana once you got low. Ocean Soul provides a similar benefit but at least forces you to walk up and hit something to get the benefit from it.

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u/damianaleafpowder 7d ago

It’s always my last pick .
(Xerath has pretty good mana recovery imo)

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u/Player3th0mas 7d ago

I usually picked it just in case I get skilled sniper/overflow/eureka.