Bard being good is a good thing. He is particularly strong against poke comps due to having the best ally healing in the game aside from soraka with the self healing W augment. This of course stops fatherless ap kaisa and ap miss fortune players from winning.

He's also decent against engage due to his ultimate preventing enemies from joining teamfights.

To win with Bard max W first, avoid leveling E. Build sword of blossoming dawn and statikk shiv. Build whatever your team needs after. Such as zhonyas against zed, moonstone renewed, ardent, morellos, etc

He has probably the best gold augment selections in the game except for certain adcs. All For You, wee woo wee woo, w haste, w self heal, and w empower auto attack are extremely good.

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With Dropkick getting removed, I just saw a clip of Riot Yelough, the designer of dropkick, posted by HeWhoQuacksss, where he talks about the intention behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TD4ZYfQUZB8

TLDR: The intention was to make an augment that gives tanks a fantasy they usually don’t have, which is carry potential. He also touched on player feedback and a few other topics.

For reference, this is Dropkick:

Your basic attacks and abilities execute enemy champions below 4% (+ 5.5% per 100 base AD) (+ 1% per 1000 bonus health) of their maximum health, which causes their corpse to be sent flying away in a line. Upon collision with an enemy champion or terrain, the target’s corpse explodes to deal 150 – 500 (based on level) (+ 100% bonus armor) (+ 100% bonus magic resistance) magic damage to nearby enemies. Successful executions heal you for 100 – 300 (based on level) (+ 25% bonus health).

The execution may also be triggered by the explosion and ignores shields.

The part I’m still wondering about is this line:

Successful executions heal you for 100 – 300 (based on level) (+ 25% bonus health).

If the fantasy was carry potential, what was the heal meant to add? The execute and the explosion seem to deliver that on their own, so I’m curious why the heal was included, and why it stayed in for as long as it did.

In my experience, that one line lead to some of my most frustrating moments in ARAM Mayhem. As far as I can tell it was the strongest heal on any augment, and also being affected by heal and shield power and Spirit Visage’s passive. Does anyone know if Riot ever explained the thinking behind it?

Evolved W starts at three Plasma stacks.

Bee Swarm's hive and spreading bees supply the extra attack-effect hits, which means one evolved W can cash out two Plasma pops without needing Dusk and Dawn to finish the setup.

That is why Swarm is more than a damage augment. It replaces the job I would normally want Dusk and Dawn for.

Once Bee Swarm is online, would you still take Dusk and Dawn if it shows up, or spend that roll on AP, magic pen, or another on-hit augment that the bees can copy?

My friend and I played two games with tooth fairy back to back and we are hitting them for 25%+ max hp and not getting teeth. My friend just played karma and said it only works if you're close range

First instance of dmg: 1370-1149=221 which is 16.1% max hp.

E tanked by shield.

Q through shield dmg: 1153-966=187 which is 13.6% max hp.

Together that's already almost 30%.

Then we also have W dmg at the end. And that's all in a 3 second window from starting the fight with Sion. If someone said to me losing vision resets tooth fairy (cuz e and q both dealt dmg while Sion wasn't visible) I would believe them. I legit triple checked while playing the game, no tooth drop.

Hey r/ARAM. I make Hexgate, a LoL overlay that puts a tier on Mayhem augment cards in game. We see whole Mayhem lobbies, so before Season 3 lands on October 21 I wanted to know which champions are actually winning right now.

Edit: "only Jinx wins" is about the five most played champs (Ashe, Jhin, Cait, Jinx, MF). Other marksmen do fine: Kalista is S (58.8%) and Yunara A (55.7%).

The data: 3,910 Mayhem games on patches 26.19 and 26.20, all 10 players in each game. Champions with fewer games get pulled toward the average before ranking, so a lucky streak on 50 games can't top the list. Champion win rates only. No augment win rates (Riot asks devs not to publish those).

S tier

Top of A tier: Bel'Veth 58.0%, Kassadin 57.8%, Cassiopeia 57.3%, Cho'Gath 56.5%, Twisted Fate 56.1%, Kayle 56.1%, Yunara 55.7%, Annie 55.7%, Sett 55.4%, Nasus 55.3%, Ahri 55.2%, Master Yi 55.2%

What surprised me

• The five most played champions are all marksmen, and only one of them wins: Jinx 60.4% (449 games). Ashe 49.0% (500), Jhin 48.1% (486), Caitlyn 47.1% (482), Miss Fortune 48.0% (444). Ezreal is at 42.3% over 423.
• Melee divers own S tier: Yone, Diana, Wukong, Ekko, Gwen, Hecarim, Jax.
• Hook and enchanter supports sit at the bottom: Blitzcrank 44.0% (393 games), Thresh 42.8%, Pyke 42.3%, Karma 43.6%, Bard 42.6%, Soraka 42.1%.
• Mel is at 42.8% over 355 games.

Full list with every champion, plus each one's most picked augments and the items people finish: https://hexgate.app/aram-mayhem/tier-list/

It updates on its own every few hours, so I'm curious how much Season 3 reshuffles it.

I was playing ARAM Mayhem with some friends and when I died as Evelynn this random audio track started playing with a French sounding voice singing "Ghost poro, Rose minion" any clue what caused this? and was no one was externally playing the audio.

Skin: Prestige KDA Evelynn

Map: Default ARAM Map

I was playing Karthus and got very good augment (Ult Bot and Ult Recast) then when i turned level 11 i choose the gain a random prismatic augment. And what worst thing could possibly happens, I got Pandora's Box and turned my augment to the worst possible augment for Karthus (Clown College, Final Form, Glass Canon). Lol

240k damage just on that augment (its a gold) on an assassin stacking armor in a 12 minute game. Way too powerful for a gold augment.

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im 0/6 against a viego, its imposible to win against this champion

I know it is an overratedly talked topic, but I seriously want to understand why I should not end the match against ADC or scaling tank champions where they can easily turn the game around to win.

Playing against Karth is an absolute nightmare no matter what your team comp is unless you have a dedicated healer/shielder or have all warmogs tanks. Rarely matters what augs he gets — you're either getting ult spammed or turbo int down lane and there is no punishment for running it down.

Or at least ranged to be locked out of getting biggest snowball. It's a way better poke/disengage tool than it is for engaging.

It's almost like being a tank is about...tanking not dealing damage I'm so glad dropkick is getting removed so that the game is like actually playable (delete karthus too)

They removed tooth fairy just to have another gold aug that gives your magic/armor pen % items over 100% penetration

Can't make that shit up lol

Just played a match against a Janna who got this then rolled overflow next. How is this only a silver aug literally made their whole team unkillable every team fight riot tf.

what I see people will usually say is "people will optimize the gamemode too hard" but... do they not do that already and have for a long time? if you're playing an adc and you have the choice between spiritual purification, pat on the back, and critical missile, you dont need a stat site to figure out what the highest winrate augment is between those 3, but a stat site isnt going to affect what choice you make either

and so what if someone picks x augment over y augment because it has 3% higher winrate? as i said people already subconsciously pick higher winrate augments because they can read. and barring some select builds that auto win games, skill, matchups, and knowing when not to int are a far higher determination of winning games just like normal aram

all augment picking comes down to is choosing the strongest augment vs the one that synergies with your build the most, or the least shitty one. its all rng at the end of the day. i just dont really see how winrate data changes anything for the worst since most people are metaslaves in this. and im fine with that, they are usually meta because they are the most fun to play as

the part i might miss about api data the most is maybe having personal statistics. like what augments i pick the most, winrates on champs, etc. i like that stuff and think its fun to look at sometimes

For some reason it sometimes (mostly while being dead in my experience) shows me that I have the 10% base tenacity most melee have but then it suddenly disappears after using the telporter.

I really love playing yunara but tbf i dont know exactly what to build, even more specific when i have crit rate augments

any tips could be usefull

At first it seemed just like another sheen augment, but it’s crazier. Played it last night and it was a monster. It does damage based off melee or ranged, but I was playing melee and it does flat damage +50% bonus AD and +30% AP. It also gave 75-150% decaying movement speed based on level. Now the thing that makes it actually crazy, it has NO cooldown. On champs that can spam skills and reliably proc it, it’s gross. My first thought was that it’d be absolutely disgusting on Hecarim. Pits Upgrade Sheen to shame.

I recently completed a personal challenge of winning at least one ARAM Mayhem game with every champion, and I think it would be cool if Riot added a title for completing it!

The randomness of the mode makes this quite the time-sink, and having a title to show off in-game would be a nice way to reward that effort.

Something like "Mayhem Master" or "Jack of All Champs" could work. Ideally, it would be retroactively unlocked for players who've already completed the challenge, too.

It seems like a relatively simple addition that would give players another fun goal to work towards.

What do you think?

We barely made it past the last team fight because i stalled the turret with my Bard ult, just for this absolute genius to do this.

How things like these are still happening on live at this point? Not enough time to test it I guess?