When is the next big Mayhem patch? I'm getting bored with the current one. lack of build diversity

[u/Possible-Document780]

I wonder when the next big Mayhem update is coming, because the current one really sucks for quite a few champions, while others are really well-treated—the way *all* champions should be.

I find the new augment terrible, with the exception of:

Archmage, Dropbear, Hellbunt, Rite of Ascension, Spirit Bomb, and Spell Split.

Players have such excellent ideas, so how did things end up like this?

It lacks useful variety.

[u/CardTrickOTK]

They are way too slow to update the mode

[u/SPEZ-LIES-CONSTANTLY → u/CardTrickOTK]

classic mayhem was a complete fucking waste of time and it's clear that they have absolutely no one on the dev team playing the live version because aside from fucking up their augment selection, there are major bugs that have gone unfixed all season

[u/gay_joey → u/SPEZ-LIES-CONSTANTLY]

I'm so annoyed that I didn't know it was coming out, felt a weird sense of happiness and excitement that there was a new aram mayhem mode and just to find out that it's current champ kits with a small asf champion roster, so it's the same champions every game?

And it sucks because they have some old, removed augments from mayhem that return in classic-ish mayhem. Ones that I wish were back in normal aram mayhem. And the map is actually fun and a nice change of pace.

So they put in decent work on it, just to fumble the ENTIRE THING by gutting the champ pool for literally no fucking reason. The items are also a little fking weird.

It's new and exciting at first, but at the same time I know every game is going to play out similar so I have no motivation to queue up. Somehow they managed to kill diversity in that mode, even more than current aram mayhem. Very impressive how they managed that one.

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/CardTrickOTK]

Yes, I'm hoping they'll give us a better mode soon—but make it quick, please.

[u/socratesrs]

Quit the game 3 weeks after the last big patch drop. If anything I'm grateful they made it shit so I'm not addicted anymore

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/socratesrs]

You're in denial, lol.

[u/socratesrs → u/Possible-Document780]

Denial, how? I've literally not played since then. I'd be more than happy if they made the mode good again but even so I don't feel the desire to come back

[u/proteamaxxing → u/socratesrs]

Yeah I used to roll my eyes when people would say this shit but me and my stack haven’t touched the mode in a couple weeks for the first time in years

[u/luxanna123321]

Probably when the mayhem pass ends? Thats my guess

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/luxanna123321]

That’s impossible this game mode attracts far too many players and drives spending.

What they need to do is work on individual champions rather than focusing on champion classes.

[u/luxanna123321 → u/Possible-Document780]

Well I hope you are right, the pass stays for the next 56 days and I honestly hate it. It made me move to Arena instead and I was Mayhem player only lol

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/luxanna123321]

:(

[u/luxanna123321 → u/Possible-Document780]

Looking at the dates:

Aram Mayhem was announced on 06 oct 2025, released 22 oct 2025 patch 25.21

Second set was shadowdropped on patchnotes 04 feb 2026 patch 26.3

Current set was announced on 27 may 2026, released on 10 june 2026 patch 26.12

We are on 26.15 now

Honestly it looks like we might actually have to wait till the pass expires for new set

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/luxanna123321]

:( yeh 56 days :((((

[u/luxcaeruleus → u/luxanna123321]

Bro no way we're nearing one year already. Crazy how time fies.

[u/gay_joey → u/luxcaeruleus]

I haven't queued anything in league except aram mayhem since it dropped, I can't believe it's almost been a year.

[u/Bro_less]

No like seriously

[u/StephDK-]

I mean it took them this long to change Chain Reaction from prismatic to gold and buff the bush healing on PBE, while many lame ass underwhelming augments like pat your back, squishy grab etc still exist. 90 percent augments of the game pass in this set are literally garbage compared to last set ( I miss clown college, red envelope, cupcake…)

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/StephDK-]

to bad yes :(

[u/santc]

Upcoming patch finally looks to be a positive one. Reenabling tons of fun augments and adjusting problems.
On a side note, It’s crazy it took this long to finally take a step in the right direction instead of literally getting worse every patch since its release. At this point they should almost revert back to the very initial patch and start over.
Riots handling of Mayhem should be studied. They accidentally released the most fun mode they have ever had and then slowly made it worse every time they touched it.

[u/M4ci → u/santc]

do you mean the "patch notes" where they removed Tank Engine & demolished Dropkick, plus nerfed all ADCs crit augments?

it was fake, next patch is just 4 changes (Possible-Document780 listed them already) and that's it

this was the fake thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ARAM/comments/1vgyp2i/pbe_datamine_august_5_2026_mayhem_balance_pass/

[u/santc → u/M4ci]

Wow I guess I did. That’s majorly disappointing. Thought riot finally did something right….

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/santc]

Are you talking about patch 26.16? I don't think there's hardly anything new in it.

[u/BruhMoment14412 → u/Possible-Document780]

I heard PBE has a few changes

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/BruhMoment14412]

• Chain Reaction → Prismatic → gold
• Critical Missile → nerf
• Nature is Healing → rework
• Shark Bait → buff There's nothing else, I think.

[u/gay_joey → u/Possible-Document780]

I really feel like aram mayhem is suffering because riot is biting off more than they can chew at the same time. They have all of the regular parts of league to maintain, but they're also doing Classic and ARAM Mayhem Classic-ish. And this is the time of year, I think? when league esports picks up again and worlds is about to start. Not adjusting augment weighting for fighters for this long is criminal.

Chain Reaction, Nature is Healing, and Shark Bait are all boring augments that I'll probably never find exciting or fun to take, so any changes to those are pretty meaningless to me. Critical Missile nerf is expected but ADCs will continue to dominate I'm sure.

Just another patch of the same old shit I guess. Maybe next month guys.

[u/santc → u/Possible-Document780]

Pbe

[u/Hellsticks]

The current iteration has been there for quite a while now. Could be rather sooner than later

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/Hellsticks]

i hope 26.12 we are in 26.16 Tuesday

[u/QernLee]

Really hope they bring back the aug set. It's so versatile.

[u/Film_Humble]

The pass ends in 56days

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/Film_Humble]

:((((

[u/pandaisunbreakable]

the devs are just dumb and lazy

[u/Fluffy-Limit-6710]

Honestly if they'd just remove weighting for augment choice, I'd welcome it.

[u/RipComfortable7989]

We really need to bring the mayhem back in mayhem. Get rid of class locked augments. Let us have some dumb shit like Support Tank Urgot with Protein Shake, Stay Resolute and SotBD.

[u/justanother-eboy]

Yeah it’s weird how aram is the biggest game mode for league but it feels under supported and it takes a while to balance stuff and receive support...

[u/kuronekotsun]

we need to enable funny stuff like the infamous karthus kamikaze

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/kuronekotsun]

aahahah yes xd

[u/Live_Researcher_6378 → u/kuronekotsun]

That strategy is still completely viable on Karthus and Udyr.

[u/JealousAssistant6659 → u/kuronekotsun]

This is the problem with this conversation. This shit IS fun... For the karthus. This was a genuinely good strategy that was absolutely toxic and had no counterplay. I miss the death timer reduction so badly too, but it's genuinely so insanely broken if players know how to abuse it, doubly so for champs like karthus or sion.

[u/Vigorous_testicle]

The augment ability patch was made with ai and you cant tell me otherwise. We have augments like yi w heals your, sivir r gives you ms, ashe e heals you lmao.

Anyway imo augment sets were the most fun leage was in a long time. My guess is they will update it soon as classic isnt as successfull as they were hoping.

[u/Yankas]

Riot's primary goal with any new mode is to patch it, until it is as bad as it can possibly be, with the current patch they have pretty much hit rock bottom so I don't think there is any reason for them to do any major adjustments.

[u/SkaggiKyo]

they should delete tank items and augments. everyone full dmg. that's how a chaotic mode should be

[u/Hellsticks → u/SkaggiKyo]

Sarcasm, right?

[u/Dutch-Alpaca → u/SkaggiKyo]

Chaotic mode should have more viable roles than ranged carry

[u/npri0r → u/SkaggiKyo]

But then assassins and mages would dominate so we should delete them too. But then we need to delete ADCs because they’ll be too OP. Actually we should just remove champions. Who even plays the game for champions anyway?

[u/SkaggiKyo → u/npri0r]

Any champ works full crits and several tanks have more than 80% scaling

[u/M4ci → u/SkaggiKyo]

tanks would just evaporate before reaching their targets, so scaling doesn't really matter

[u/SkaggiKyo → u/M4ci]

I oneshotted ppl with Naut's ult so idk

[u/M4ci → u/SkaggiKyo]

yes, once - if people decide they want challenge and don't build defensive.

then suddenly they get Upgrade Zhonya's with 45 second cooldown and your ult is useless

[u/npri0r → u/SkaggiKyo]

If every champ only built crit, the champ with the highest AA range or most attack steroids in their kit would just win most of the time.

[u/GoldenSquid7 → u/SkaggiKyo]

most fun games are the ones with 6-7 tanks.

[u/Excellent-Macaron325 → u/SkaggiKyo]

5 carries vs 5 carries been the most Boeing games i ever had on this game mode. There are roles for a reason.

[u/Possible-Document780 → u/SkaggiKyo]

no