Courage of the Colossus ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Colossus's Resolve: Gain a shield based on the number of surrounding enemy champions when you root an enemy. An exclusive rune for tanks and control champions.

"Colossus's Resolve: Core effect: When you root an enemy champion, gain a shield Base shield: Each rooted enemy provides a 100-400 shield (scales with level) Scaling: Shield value receives 10% maximum Health scaling Duration: Shield lasts 3 seconds Cooldown: Each root ability can only trigger a shield once, regardless of number of hits Range limit: Only affects enemies rooted by you

Stun effects: knockup, suppression, stun, taunt, fear, charm, polymorph Root effects: all effects preventing enemy displacement Equipment-provided root effects (like Iceborn Gauntlet, Righteous Glory) Pet-provided root effects

Slows, knockbacks, pulls (unless root) Enemy champion roots Minion/monster roots Healing/shield effects

Colossus's Courage: Multi-target stacking: when hitting multiple enemies, shield values from each enemy stack Shield refresh: reapplying root effect refreshes duration and stacks shield value Highest priority: Colossus shield calculates before all other shields Size bonus: +5% shield per 10% increased size Control synergy: consecutive roots keep shield active

"Colossus's Resolve: Tanks with hard CC (Alistar, Leona, Braum) Control fighters (Darius, Jax, Riven) Initiators (Leona, Garen, Malphite) Jungle tanks (Sejuani, Zac, Gragas)

Colossus: Champions without CC Pure damage champions (Vayne, Draven, Zed) Pure support (Soraka, Karma, Nami) Ranged champions

Colossus's Resolve: Hit multiple enemies with CC in fights: thicker shield Initiate fights: use CC on enemy carries to get shield and absorb damage Stack health: higher health increases shield value Use shield duration to output or retreat Use CC abilities continuously: refresh shield duration

Courage of the Colossus + Goliath: Goliath grants 35% bonus health, which directly amplifies Courage of the Colossus's shield value since it scales with 4% maximum health. The increased size and adaptive force make you a more imposing frontline presence in ARAM's narrow lane, while the larger health pool ensures each immobilize trigger creates significantly stronger shields that stack for sustained teamfight durability. Courage of the Colossus + Celestial Body: Celestial Body provides 1500 bonus health, dramatically increasing Courage of the Colossus's shield strength through the 4% maximum health scaling. The 10% damage reduction is a minimal trade-off for becoming an unkillable frontline tank in constant ARAM skirmishes, as the massive health pool generates shields that can exceed 600 damage per trigger. Courage of the Colossus + Slap Around: Slap Around synergizes perfectly by triggering on the same condition as Courage of the Colossus—immobilizing or grounding enemies. Each crowd control instance grants both a protective shield and permanent adaptive force stacks, creating a snowballing tank that grows stronger throughout the match while remaining durable through stacked shields. Courage of the Colossus + Soul Eater: Soul Eater triggers alongside Courage of the Colossus on every immobilize or ground, granting permanent bonus health stacks. This creates a scaling loop where more health increases shield strength, and more crowd control triggers both effects simultaneously. Over extended ARAM games, this combination transforms into massive durability through infinitely stacking health. Courage of the Colossus + Adamant: Adamant grants 10 bonus armor and magic resistance per immobilize trigger, stacking up to 100 total resistances. Combined with Courage of the Colossus's shields, this creates a dual-layer defensive system where each crowd control ability provides both immediate damage absorption and lasting damage mitigation for extended teamfight survival.

Avoid Courage of the Colossus + Back to Basics: Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which severely limits your champion's access to crowd control on many kits. Since Courage of the Colossus triggers only on immobilizing or grounding enemies, losing a major CC tool reduces shield proc opportunities, wasting the prismatic value and leaving you with a defensive augment that cannot fully activate. Avoid Courage of the Colossus + Glass Cannon: Glass Cannon caps your maximum health at 70% and prevents any means of exceeding it. Courage of the Colossus grants shields scaling with 4% maximum health, so artificially capping your health pool directly reduces shield strength. This anti-synergy undermines the defensive scaling purpose of the shield augment. Avoid Courage of the Colossus + Vampirism: Vampirism sets your health regeneration to 0 and prevents ally healing, forcing reliance on omnivamp for sustain. Courage of the Colossus provides shields for damage mitigation, but the playstyle conflict is clear: Vampirism demands aggression for healing while the shield augment rewards crowd control. The defensive utility is partially wasted when you cannot receive allied heals. Avoid Courage of the Colossus + Scopiest Weapons: Scopiest Weapons grants massive bonus attack range, pushing your champion to fight from long distance. Courage of the Colossus requires you to immobilize or ground enemies to trigger shields, but extreme range often means fewer crowd control opportunities and less need for close-range defensive shields, creating a positional and role mismatch.

Guardian: Don't give it to champions without crowd control abilities, as it cannot be activated. Don't ignore multi-target stacking hitting multiple enemies with one ability grants a thicker shield. Don't build too much damage stack health and resistances to increase shield value and survival. Don't waste crowd control on minions save it for enemy champions. Watch shield duration retreat or use crowd control again after the shield expires.