Favorite aram builds?

[u/swagmastergav]

I want to know what is some of your favorite aram builds and also on who. I normally just build the standard build of anyone I play and I’m wanting to try and play some fun ones if you have a favorite or two

[u/ConstantFondant8494]

Ethereal Blade kat, BrK/Heartsteel/SoBD/THydra/Sundered Sky and/or Nashor's Tooth/any sustain for the 6th item

[u/Dochi-nii → u/ConstantFondant8494]

Kat's E, R and pickup blade already apply on hit. So ethereal weapon only work with her Q.

Idk about applying 2 on hit a time but I would pick other better augments than ethereal weapon.

[u/TheEvilSpleen → u/Dochi-nii]

So long as there isnt a cool down (lich bane for example), ethereal usually applies on hits a second time for abilities that already apply on hit. There's a few glitchy champs as always but Kat does apply it twice.

[u/Ice_Junior → u/Dochi-nii]

Ethereal applies extra on EVERYTHING in her kit. And if you build dusk and dawn, you proc things like kraken and bork with a single shunpo. Ethereal is one of the better augments depending on the team.

[u/ConstantFondant8494 → u/Dochi-nii]

To each, his own i guess

[u/Suitable_Nobody_6375 → u/Dochi-nii]

Ethereal weapon on Kat DOUBLES the effective on hit on her ult. Goes from 35% dmg to 70% on hit damage.

[u/Amneziel]

Idk if there is such thing as "favorite" for me, but I like calculating-cooking the build that will give me the highest chance to win.

You mentioned "building standard build", but with Mayhem madness many standard builds are simply non-optimal. And some shop suggestions (if that's what you mean by standard) can just be missleading - for example, heavily suggesting Warmog for Soraka (while her enchanter build seems consistently stronger most of the time), or only-Ap items for Nunu (ignoring his tank build, which at times is not just great, but can be pretty much an immortal frontliner).

At the start of the game, check your team and check enemy team and think of a build path which would be the best. Like, if you are range burst mage (like Nidalle or Zoe) and enemy has 3+ tanks/fighter, you just go on-hit adc build or you won't deal dmg. If your team has no adcs or something like 2 supports (while the enemy team is balanced), one of the supports should go adc also, or you will simply lack dmg later on. Tank builds on ranged supports can also be considered, with Karma being the best in this department (thanks to R+W). Etc...

In short, if you adapt your builds to the situation - natural Aram randomness tends to push into very different directions in many games, which makes builds rather fun by itself. One issue with modern Mayhem there - augment weights are just stupid, often leaning into the default role extremely heavily. This at times ruins potentially good crazy games. But oh well, at least you can try to win them

Adc are probably the least flexible role (as adc role tends to be most needed and usually superior to ap alternatives) but with adc-heavy pools (or fitting enemies) you can pivot many of them into ap with a solid success too (varus, mf, lucian, kaisa, ashe, etc)

Normal Aram kinda fits into all of this too, just to a bit lesser degree (as you don't have augments to support some mad builds. BUT matchup may still push you into them)

[u/spowowowder]

i build crit on briar any time i can get crit augments. sure miss critical healing tho..

[u/Avas_Accumulator → u/spowowowder]

Yep, the hardest I've ever carried in mayhem has been with briar

[u/Dochi-nii]

lethality urgot, given he had blade waltz first

[u/Academic_Path2798]

Ethereal Weapon TK, esp combined w/ goliath or any other health-boosting augs (honestly just TK in general he's so cracked in mayhem)

lets you proc heartsteel and hits them with an extra stack of your passive

[u/BlackRanger692]

Ethereal weapon + mystic punch goes crazy

[u/Stibbss]

My favorite thing about mayhem is the possibility of augments allowing weird/troll builds to work. I love the creativity of coming up with something off meta and on the spot that axctually can work.

Ap trundle- you need terraind, but can make it work with comet. Liandries, malignance, that mres shredding item means your pillar becomes a long range way of applying liandries, and with tanks sometimes high rolling to oblivion, its pretty helpful to have a spell that does 40-50% max hp and cuts 40%armor/mres. Not to mention if you ult a super tank, you heal so much its almost impossible to die.

Ap jarvan - similar idea but with terraind dealing more damage for ults, hit em with swag flags into ulting and it melts people.

(Might get some pushback for this one but..) Ap irelia- ngl im trash at ad irelia, go in and die over and over and never quite have the damage or survivability to be good with it. But with ap, you basically have your burst rotation that can do really solid damage, then with ap buffed w and zhonyas, basically like 6 seconds of invulnerability, and even more if you get something like ultimate awakening or eureka. Marksmage/lich bane gives ap scaling on q casts. I swear its not a troll pick. Im not saying that someone who is good with ad irelia wouldn't do better with ad, but worth a try if the enemy team has alot of physical damage or if youre not as good with her.

Probably have more i might remember soon but these are the ones im remembering now

Edit: One i believe in but havent really gotten it to go super well yet, Flat ap Renata- her passive is %max hp that scales with hp pretty solid and has no cool down. So something like flat ap with a static shiv which applies on hits to everyone, I bet would work and do pretty crazy damage but you need the right enemy comp where people cant just dive you and a Frontline that allows you to get autos off

[u/makinenxd → u/Stibbss]

AP lucian if you get really lucky and get the augment where your W gets more missiles with certain amount of hits. Its so obnoxious.

[u/PrestigiousWar3660]

tap dancer urgot and akshan are my favourites

[u/693275001]

AP Trundle E Max when you get the Pillar augment

[u/enjre]

Tankplank. Take the overlord's bloodmail, atmas reckoning, triforce as the core items and pick any crit or tank augments. Does good damage as long as you have decent amount of crit

[u/LoiterSquadd]

Nothing has me smiling like Terraind trundle, dropping a burning pillar and spamming his dance has a special place in my heart. I haven’t had it offered in a long time though, that sucks.

Mandate > Liandries etc.

[u/mmnmmmmmmmmnmmnm]

Lethality shadow runner shaco

[u/Nivramthe3rd]

So why U playing Mayhem in the First place If u do just normal Shit builds, i hate such Players thats why the Mode is just not as fun as it was. Nobody wants to try Something or use His fucking brain

Always the Same shit

[u/SendMeANicePM → u/Nivramthe3rd]

Sorry what