Jeweled Gauntlet ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Pearlescent Gauntlet: A Transmutation that allows all abilities to crit, with higher crit chance based on AP, maximizing burst with crit damage items, a T0 choice for ability-based champions.

Pearlescent Gauntlet: Core effect: All skill damage and non-lifesteal healing effects can critically strike for 145% total damage/healing. Base stats: +25% base critical strike chance. Bonus scaling: +4.5% critical strike chance per 100 AP (no cap). Critical damage stacking: Stacks with items like Infinity Edge and Lord Dominik's Regards with calculation of "145% + (additional crit multiplier / 2)". Limit: Skills with built-in crit mechanics cannot trigger Pearl Gauntlet effect. Damage over time: Each tick of DoT can independently crit.

Facet of Sol: All active skill damage (including AD and AP abilities) Non-vampiric healing effects (such as Soraka W, Karma R, Mundo R) Equipment skill damage (such as Luden's Echo, Morellonomicon, Ice Gauntlet) Each tick of damage over time skills (such as Brand passive, Lillia Q, Teemo shrooms) Pet skill damage (such as Annie's bear, Malzahar's Voidling) True damage skills (such as Sett R, Pyke R)

Pearl Rapier: Basic attacks (including enhanced, Draven Q, Gangplank Q), Abilities with built-in crit (Gangplank Q, Yasuo Q, Yone Q), Lifesteal (both physical and spell), Shield effects, True damage DoT (Ignite), Tower/minion attacks

Runaan's Hurricane: Healing Crits: Not only damage can crit, all non-lifesteal heals can crit, doubling heals for supports like Soraka or Karma Infinite Stacking Formula: With Infinity Edge (+30% bonus crit damage), Hurricane's crit damage becomes 145% + 30%/2 = 160% AP Conversion Priority: AP converted from AD benefits from crit chance, but AP converted to AD does not Multi-Skill Independent Judgement: Each tick of multi-hit skills can crit independently (e.g., Jinx Q, Viktor E) Extremely High Percentage Skill Returns: Skills with max health percentage damage (e.g., Viego R, Irelia R) deal exponentially more damage when crit

Pearl Handguard: Mages with large AOE skills (like Ziggs, Viktor, Ziggs, Brand) Champions with percentage-based skill damage (like Viego, Ornn, Kayn, Smolder) Champions with short cooldowns and high poke frequency (like Lux, Neeko, Viktor) Supports with high healing (like Soraka, Karma, Nami) Assassins with high burst ultimates (like Fizz, Zed, Qiyana)

Champions whose abilities can crit (like Gangplank, Yasuo, Yone, Draven) Pure auto-attack ADCs (like Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Pure tank supports (like Alistar, Leona, Braum) Heroes with extremely low ability damage ratio (like Olaf, Tryndamere, Udyr) Champions with extremely low sustained damage frequency (like Tryndamere, Volibear)

Pearl Handkerchief: Prioritize AP: AP increases ability damage and crit chance, making it core. Build Infinity Edge: IE significantly increases Pearl Handkerchief crit damage, core for all Pearl users. Use multi-hit abilities for crits: each multi-hit can crit independently, try to use multi-hit abilities. Position carefully if you're a healer: healing crits make you a mobile health pack, but watch your safety. Don't be too aggressive early: Pearl is mid-late game, crit chance is low in first 3 levels, be patient. Focus on AoE in teamfights: large AoE abilities have higher crit chance, instantly melting multiple enemies.

Jeweled Gauntlet + Soul Siphon: Jeweled Gauntlet enables ability critical strikes while Soul Siphon provides 25% additional critical chance and heals for 12% of critical strike damage dealt. This combination transforms every ability crit into massive sustain, allowing mages to spam abilities with built-in omnivamp-style recovery. The combined 50% crit chance ensures frequent procs in ARAM's constant teamfights. Jeweled Gauntlet + Eureka: Eureka grants ability haste equal to 30% of AP, which scales directly with the AP builds Jeweled Gauntlet demands. This enables near-spammable abilities that can critically strike, dramatically increasing both damage output and crit proc frequency. The synergy creates a self-reinforcing loop where more AP means both harder-hitting crits and faster cooldowns. Jeweled Gauntlet + Critical Missile: Critical Missile launches additional Firecrackers at enemies when landing critical strikes, with more Firecrackers per critical chance percentage. Jeweled Gauntlet provides 25% base crit chance scaling with AP, enabling consistent Critical Missile triggers. Each ability crit now deals the amplified damage plus bonus magic damage from the Firecrackers, creating devastating burst patterns. Jeweled Gauntlet + Double Tap: Double Tap causes critical strikes to apply on-hit effects an additional time while granting 25% critical chance. Combined with Jeweled Gauntlet's ability crits, this enables mages with on-hit synergy in their kits to double-dip on those effects. The total 50% crit chance from both augments ensures reliable critical strike activation on abilities. Jeweled Gauntlet + Critical Rhythm: Critical Rhythm grants stacking bonus attack speed on critical strikes and provides 25% critical chance. While primarily attack-speed focused, the additional crit chance synergizes with Jeweled Gauntlet's ability crits, reaching 50% total chance. Champions with hybrid scaling benefit from the attack speed for weaving empowered basic attacks between ability crits.

Avoid Jeweled Gauntlet + Vulnerability: Jeweled Gauntlet explicitly states that if both are equipped, only the critical strike chance of the augment with higher critical damage is rolled. This creates a direct mechanical conflict where the 25% critical strike chance from Vulnerability becomes completely wasted, offering zero additional value. Avoid Jeweled Gauntlet + Draw Your Sword: Draw Your Sword forces your champion to become melee with 200 attack range, which fundamentally conflicts with Jeweled Gauntlet's design for ability-based mages. The attack speed, life steal, and attack damage bonuses from Draw Your Sword provide poor synergy for a caster-focused augment. Avoid Jeweled Gauntlet + EscAPADe: EscAPADe converts all ability power into bonus attack damage, which directly undermines Jeweled Gauntlet's scaling. Jeweled Gauntlet grants critical strike chance that scales with ability power, so converting AP to AD severely weakens the critical strike chance bonus this augment provides. Avoid Jeweled Gauntlet + Back to Basics: Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability in exchange for increased damage and ability haste. This is a poor trade when Jeweled Gauntlet already provides a strong power spike for ability-based champions, and many mages rely on their ultimate for significant damage output.

Icathian Fingerbloom: Don't take on champions whose skills can crit: Champions like Gangplank or Yasuo have skills that can crit already Fingerbloom wastes a slot, only affecting ultimates. Don't ignore crit healing: Many players focus on damage crit but forget healing can also crit Soraka can heal to full with one W. Don't build too much crit: Fingerbloom already provides significant crit chance building three or more crit items causes stat overflow. Don't ignore DoT crit: Champions like Brand or Lillia with DoT deal more damage than burst mages with Fingerbloom. Don't force damage in losing lanes: Fingerbloom champions are squishy in losing lanes, build defensive items before damage. Watch enemy MR: Items like Force of Nature or Spirit Visage drastically reduce your spell crit damage build magic penetration. Don't forget true damage can crit: Champions like Sett or Pyke with true damage abilities melt tanks with Fingerbloom.