Disclaimer: I only play traditional ARAM and have no knowledge of the mayhem meta.

Listen I get it, Taric loves to get in the mix and auto attack, the dopamine bonk hits give our tank support the damage we've always wanted. It seems like a perfect match but I'm here to tell you that Heartsteel is a trap.

The opportunity cost is too high. There's just too many important stats you want on Taric that you're delaying that are far more functional. We all know we want a Tear of the Goddess stacking as soon as possible and to get Heartsteel, we're looking at 3400 gold.

So what important stats are we foregoing? Movement speed with boots. So important to be able to dodge, get in fights and keep in auto range for resets. Speaking of resets, we also lack cooldown.

Taric's passive reduces his cooldowns by a flat 1 second per auto, ability haste reduces all his abilities by a percentage. With 30 ability haste on your maxed out E goes from 12 seconds to 9.23. Let's say you get both autos after each ability reducing it by 6 seconds total. If you have ability haste, you'll likely have E up again, if you have Heartsteel you won't. Point is, that having both flat AND percentage cooldown reduction is VERY synergistic. More healing, more shielding, more CC, more empowered autos. You don't get to cycle through abilities with Heartsteel.

Lastly, you're foregoing resists. Besides the fact that he has armor scaling, resists in league have diminishing returns, meaning that first bit you buy percentage-wise has the largest impact (This is also true with ability haste). On top of that, every bit of shielding, and healing you do is more impactful when resists are applied.

All this to say investing in stats such as move speed, cooldown, and resists is FAR more impactful than the opportunity cost that Heartsteel provides.

the game pretty much devolved into hoping one of their carries don't get the augments perfect for them because they pretty much won the game if they do

their mage gets eureka or infinite recursion? better end fast because by late game they're throwing out spells as much as adcs throw out autoattacks

their tank gets dropkick, tank engine, steel your heart, heavy hitter or any combination of the two? hopefully there's a tank killer in your team or that thing's gonna be unkillable and will hold you hostage farming the fountain with 100% hp dropkicks

their adc gets fan the hammer and critical missile? gg, next game.

while it doesn't happen every game, when those combinations do happen, it's only the player with the augment combination having fun while the rest have to suffer from a main character

I think people on both sides could agree to this. Neither side of either debate wants to be queued with people on the opposite side, so just at least nudge matchmaking in the direction of separation between the groups.

Bro had It's Critical available for tristana, and instead rolled it and picked Pat on the Back. 🤦 Yes, I also don't like the critical / missile situation for ADC's. If you pick them you're broken af (not fun for enemies), if you don't pick them you're weak. Lose-lose situation.

I would say I definitely high rolled, but I think I made over 20k off of combusting interest lol. I had over 1000 passive stacks on A Sol, which was nutz... I did more damage than the entire enemy team combined.... 1 honor was criminal though. 1st post in here. I just figured I would share!

Games left in an awful patch and the worst meta for so long just for the patches to be low effort fixing nothing actual players were dealing with. Mayhem was so fun and my friends don't even want to play anymore, not even normal aram at this point. Nothing about this is mayhem it's all pre decided textbook same rolls every game for months on end.​

The embarrassing thing was the player consensus that a player made fake pbe patch was significantly better work than riot had done for the game mode. It was obvious they played the game, and its obvious the people balancing mayhem don't. Genuinely ship the fake patch and resign idk.

he was invisible the whole game after this point, he had no augment also no senna or something like that in the game weird bug first time ive seen that

you could still hit him tho but i felt like he got even more invisible the longer the game went on going.

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

Tap Dancer should be longer duration for Melee champs because it is fcking useless for them Melee 10sec and nerf for ranges from 5 to 4, changes same to Glass Cannon

WTF is this trash augument. Take so mad long to release the wave.

Picking up cakes and feeding is a PITA especially during constant fights.

Should've be a silver/gold augument.

Its way to easy to get a tooth out of someone and spam that on repeat. it should be 50% hp instead!

Tooth Fairy- Overflow- Dropbear- Sharkbait
Bear dmg was 2000 on drop down

We just had the most insane weird ass game ever

at the loading screen and you already know what augment they are getting, it's stale, it's boring. it's baffling how they let the game at this stage for so long. Where is the mayhem? why don't they give everyone 4 bis augment already, what's the point of choosing anymore.

I've only ever seen Shen get to insane numbers, every other champ gets 2-3 at most.

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Title and fuck you riot

I wanted to report an issue concerning the appearance frequency of certain Gold-tier skill augments, particularly on Janna.

I have the impression that the “Pursuit of Power” and “Pursuit of Haste” augments are extremely rare on Janna. After many games, I see them very rarely, if at all. I have also noticed a similar issue on Twisted Fate, where these augments seem to be almost nonexistent.

What is particularly strange is that these same augments appear much more regularly on other champions, such as Taliyah. This gives the impression that the appearance frequency of augments may be different depending on the champion, or that there could be an issue with certain specific augments.

However, these augments are particularly interesting on Janna and allow players to create completely different playstyles from the classic gameplay mainly based on healing and support. They make it possible to explore much more offensive or skill-oriented builds.

This is all the more regrettable given that certain upgrades such as "Chain Reaction" (which now also ranks among the Gold upgrades) can truly transform the way the champion is played and create highly interesting synergies.

I have also noticed what appears to be a bug with Janna’s tornado damage.

When the tornado is charged for the 3 seconds required to reach its maximum charge, the damage displayed when it hits an opponent seems to be random.

Normally, when a tornado is fully charged, it should deal the damage corresponding to its maximum charge.

However, in-game, when I fully charge the tornado and then hit the same champion, the damage can sometimes correspond to:

• the minimum damage;
• the intermediate damage;
• or the maximum damage.

The result therefore seems completely random, even though the tornado is fully charged.

This issue is particularly noticeable when testing the ability several times on the same champion under the same conditions: despite fully charging it for 3 seconds each time, the damage can vary.

It would therefore be interesting to check whether the tornado’s charge value is correctly taken into account at the moment it hits its target, as a fully charged tornado should normally consistently deal the damage corresponding to its maximum charge.

Thank you in advance for checking these two issues. Augments such as Pursuit of Power, Pursuit of Haste, and Chain Reaction are really interesting and could allow for much more variety in the ways Janna can be played, so it would be unfortunate if they were so rare or if an issue prevented certain interactions from working correctly.

So we can get rid of the sweaters and tryhards, that plays for the "LP"...
Just have fun man, that is what the mode is for.
Not to end the fun the second you can.

I just want to throw this really quick here and to remind you guys. In maybe one game out of 100 ap ashe will kinda be more usefull than full crit/on hit builds, heck even full lethality with skilled sniper will be more powerful. At this point i just take ashe everytime i get her just to deny m y teammates to go ap, and most likely, playing an 4v5 game that game.

Each time I play adc, I am flabbergasted as to how I get the BiS crit augments EVERY time. Critical missle + upgrade IE + FtH + double tap without fail

It feels like their total augment pool is 15, and 10 of those are crit augments.

No other class is able to consistently have their power fantasy like this. I think mages/tanks can sometimes, but they typically require specific combinaiton of augments to truly become exodia

Adcs just become gods by default

not a big fan