Lightning Strikes ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Lightning Strike: Basic attacks and abilities have a chance to trigger a lightning chain, striking multiple enemies for bonus magic damage, a waveclear and teamfight tool.

"Lightning Strike: Core Effect: Your basic attacks and skills have a 25% chance to trigger a lightning chain\nLightning chain effect: Deals 50-200 magic damage to the target and 2 nearby enemies (scales with level)\ stat scaling: Lightning chain damage receives 25% attack damage and 25% AP scaling\nCooldown: Lightning chain can only trigger once per target per second\nLightning chain can critical strike

Lightning Strike: All basic attacks (including empowered attacks) All active skill damage Equipment skill damage Damage from pets

Lightning Strike: Tick damage from DoT abilities, True damage, Healing/Shields, Tower/minion attacks

Lightning Strike: Lightning chain prioritizes lowest health enemies Lightning chain can trigger on-hit effects (e.g., Blade of the Ruined King, Black Cleaver) Multi-hit skills hitting multiple targets have independent chance to trigger lightning chain per target Lightning chain damage benefits from magic penetration

Lightning Strike: High attack speed auto-attack champions (like Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Multi-hit skill champions (like Ziggs, Viktor, Brand) Mixed damage champions Champions weak at waveclear

Pure burst assassins Pure tank champions Champions with extremely long skill cooldowns Champions focused on sustained damage

Lightning Strike: Prioritize Attack Speed and AD: higher attack speed increases lightning chain frequency Use lightning chain to clear waves: extremely fast wave clear Attack frontline in team fights: chain will jump to backline enemies Combine with multi-hit abilities: increase chain proc chance

Lightning Strikes + Deft: Deft grants 60% bonus attack speed, which Lightning Strikes amplifies by an additional 20% for 72% total. This instantly meets the 1.75 attack speed threshold, activating the 40 bonus magic damage on-hit immediately from the start of the game, providing consistent enhanced auto-attack damage throughout all fights. Lightning Strikes + Tap Dancer: Tap Dancer grants bonus attack speed equal to 10% of total movement speed, creating a scaling loop where movement speed directly increases attack speed. Lightning Strikes amplifies this bonus attack speed further, helping reach and maintain the 1.75 threshold while the infinite movement speed stacking keeps you mobile and damaging. Lightning Strikes + Symphony of War: Symphony of War grants Lethal Tempo, which provides stacking attack speed during combat that synergizes perfectly with Lightning Strikes' 20% amplification. The combination ensures rapid threshold achievement for the on-hit damage, while Conqueror provides additional adaptive damage scaling for extended ARAM teamfights. Lightning Strikes + Gash: Gash grants 50% bonus attack speed, which Lightning Strikes amplifies to 60%, bringing you closer to the 1.75 threshold. The on-hit true damage from Gash combines with Lightning Strikes' magic damage on-hit, creating a dual-damage on-hit profile that shreds through both squishy and tanky targets. Lightning Strikes + Critical Rhythm: Critical Rhythm grants 25% critical strike chance and stacks up to 60% bonus attack speed on critical strikes. Lightning Strikes amplifies this stacking attack speed, accelerating threshold achievement. The synergy creates a snowballing attack speed curve during sustained combat, maximizing on-hit damage output.

Avoid Lightning Strikes + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady completely nullifies Lightning Strikes' core mechanic. Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static value and prevents all attack speed bonuses from functioning, which means the 20% increased bonus attack speed from Lightning Strikes provides zero benefit, and you cannot reach the 1.75 threshold for the on-hit damage. Avoid Lightning Strikes + Purist - Caster: Avoid this pairing because Purist - Caster converts all bonus attack speed into ability haste, directly conflicting with Lightning Strikes' purpose. Lightning Strikes amplifies attack speed gains and rewards reaching 1.75 attack speed with bonus on-hit damage, but Purist - Caster removes the attack speed entirely, wasting both the multiplier effect and the threshold trigger. Avoid Lightning Strikes + Back to Basics: Avoid this pairing because Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which severely limits synergy potential for attack speed builds. While Lightning Strikes provides attack speed scaling and on-hit damage, losing your ultimate removes a significant power source, and many attack speed champions rely on their ultimate for crowd control or damage amplification. Avoid Lightning Strikes + ADAPt: Avoid this pairing because ADAPt converts all bonus attack damage into ability power, which creates a stat mismatch for Lightning Strikes. Attack speed builds typically scale with attack damage for basic attack damage, and converting AD to AP wastes the on-hit magic damage synergy that Lightning Strikes provides for auto-attack focused champions.

Lightning Strikes: Don't ignore the mixed damage bonus of the lightning chain both AD and AP increase its damage. Don't build too much crit lightning chain has a fixed proc chance, unaffected by crit rate. Don't forget the lightning chain can trigger on-hit effects items like Blade of the Ruined King or Black Cleaver increase overall damage. Note target cooldown lightning chain can only trigger once per target per second.