Back to Basics ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Back to Basics: Significantly increase basic attack damage, with each auto reducing all ability cooldowns. A core rune for auto-attack champions.

"Back to Basics: Core effect: Basic attack damage increased by 25%\nBonus: Each basic attack reduces all ability cooldowns by 1 second\nSpecial: Enhanced attacks also benefit from damage bonus and CD reduction\nLimit: Each ability can have its CD reduced by at most 2 seconds per second from basic attacks\nBonus: Attacking minions and monsters also triggers CD reduction

All basic attacks (including enhanced attacks) Equipment-triggered attacks Attacking enemy champions/minions/monsters

Skill damage Healing/shield effects Tower/minion attacks Minion attacks

Back to Basics: CDR reduction also affects ultimate Enhanced auto-attack bonus damage gets 25% bonus Multi-target autos trigger CDR reduction for each target Attacking towers also triggers CDR reduction

"Back to Basics: High attack speed marksmen (Vayne, Jinx, Kassadin, Draven) Champions with empowered autos (Gangplank, Jayce, Kennen) Auto-attack fighters (Darius, Jax, Riven) Jungle champions

Back to Basics: Pure AP mage (Ziggs, Vel'Koz, Jinx) Pure tank frontline (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Low CD mage (Lux, Neeko) Pure assassin (Zed, Talon)

Back to Basics: Prioritize attack speed to increase auto attack frequency Use auto attacks to reduce ultimate CD 配合攻击特效装备提升伤害 团战中尽量多普攻保持技能 CD 转好

Back to Basics + Jeweled Gauntlet: Back to Basics provides 35% increased damage and 70 ability haste, but seals the ultimate. Jeweled Gauntlet allows abilities to critically strike, converting the raw damage amp into massive burst potential. The 70 ability haste ensures frequent spell rotations, maximizing critical strike opportunities. This turns any mage into a high-damage nuker who spams empowered, critting basic abilities. Back to Basics + Magic Missile: Back to Basics grants 35% increased ability damage and 70 ability haste. Magic Missile fires tracking Firecrackers on ability hits, dealing percent health true damage. The ability haste from Back to Basics enables constant spell casting, which triggers Magic Missile frequently. The damage amp applies to the triggering ability, while Magic Missile adds reliable percent health damage. Back to Basics + Infinite Recursion: Back to Basics provides 70 ability haste and 35% increased damage. Infinite Recursion grants 60 ability haste, scaling infinitely on takedowns. Together, these provide 130 base ability haste, pushing basic ability cooldowns to near-minimum. The damage amp remains intact, creating a spell-spam playstyle with exceptional uptime on all basic abilities during extended ARAM teamfights. Back to Basics + Glass Cannon: Back to Basics provides 35% increased damage and 35% increased healing and shielding. Glass Cannon caps health at 70% but grants 15% bonus true damage on all pre-mitigation damage. The healing amp from Back to Basics helps sustain through Glass Cannon's health restriction, while the true damage conversion stacks with the raw damage increase for devastating output.

Avoid Back to Basics + Can't Touch This: Avoid this pairing because Can't Touch This grants invulnerability when casting your ultimate ability, but Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate, making the trigger condition impossible to ever fulfill. This results in a completely dead augment with zero value. Avoid Back to Basics + Ultimate Revolution: Avoid this pairing because Ultimate Revolution resets your ultimate ability's cooldown after casting, but Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability entirely. The reset mechanic has no ability to interact with, rendering this augment completely worthless. Avoid Back to Basics + Ultimate Awakening: Avoid this pairing because Ultimate Awakening grants massive basic ability haste and cooldown resets when casting your ultimate, but Back to Basics seals your ultimate permanently. You can never trigger the powerful empowerment effect, wasting this augment entirely. Avoid Back to Basics + Ultimate Unstoppable: Avoid this pairing because Ultimate Unstoppable grants crowd control immunity for 3 seconds after casting your ultimate ability, but Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate. The trigger condition is impossible to meet, providing zero benefit. Avoid Back to Basics + Fey Magic: Avoid this pairing because Fey Magic polymorphs enemies when you damage them with your ultimate ability, but Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate. The crowd control effect can never activate, making this augment provide no value whatsoever.

Back to Basics: Don't only stack Attack Speed while ignoring Attack Damage, resulting in insufficient auto-attack damage. Don't forget attacking minions also reduces cooldowns. Don't take when skill cooldowns are already very short, as the benefit is minimal. Don't ignore that empowered auto-attacks also receive bonuses.