Mystic Punch ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Secret Technique: Gain an empowered basic attack every 8 seconds dealing high magic damage and knocking back enemies, with 2 stacks. A versatile rune for kiting and burst.

Secret Fist: Core effect: Gain 1 Secret Fist charge every 8 seconds, max 2 charges. Charge effect: Next basic attack becomes Secret Fist, dealing 120-360 magic damage and knocking enemies back 200 range. Stat bonus: Receives 60% AP scaling and 40% attack damage bonus. Special rule: Knockback effect is halved against large and epic monsters. Cooldown: 8-second cooldown after each use.

Basic attacks (consuming charges) Enhanced attacks (Draven Q, Gangplank Q, etc.) Equipment-triggered attacks (Triforce, Divine Sunderer, etc.)

Skill damage Damage over time Healing/shield effects Tower/minion attacks Minion attacks

Pulsefire Fist: Can trigger all on-hit effects (BotRK, Black Cleaver, Nashor's, etc.) Can trigger skill crit from Runaan's Hurricane Knockback interrupts all enemy casts Can store 2 stacks for consecutive knockback and damage

Arcane Comet: High attack speed auto-attack champions (Vayne, Kai'Sa, Ashe) Kiting champions (Ezreal, Jayce, Akshan) Hybrid damage champions (Kennen, Akali, Quinn) Champions with enhanced auto-attacks

Arcane Punch: Pure AP mages (Ziggs, Vel'Koz, Annie) Pure tank frontliners (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Heroes with very long ability cooldowns (Tryndamere, Malphite) Ability-reliant mages

Secret Fist: Keep 2 charges before team fights, enter and burst first Use the knockback to interrupt enemy key abilities (like Kat R, Malphite R) In poke fights, throw one punch and retreat, wait for cooldowns Combine with on-hit items to increase overall damage

Mystic Punch + Deft: Deft provides 60% bonus attack speed, enabling far more frequent basic attacks to trigger Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction effect. This combination allows abilities to come off cooldown dramatically faster during extended fights, creating a spell-weaving playstyle where auto-attacks rapidly reset all abilities for near-constant ability spam in the narrow ARAM lane. Mystic Punch + Dual Wield: Dual Wield causes basic attacks to launch an additional bolt that applies on-hit effects at 40% effectiveness, effectively granting bonus on-hit procs. Each attack triggers Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction multiple times, accelerating ability cooldowns significantly faster than normal attacks alone would allow. Mystic Punch + Tap Dancer: Tap Dancer grants bonus attack speed equal to 10% of total movement speed and stacks movement speed infinitely on-hit. The increasing attack speed from movement speed bonuses enables progressively faster attacks, which continuously trigger Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction more frequently as the fight extends. Mystic Punch + Twice Thrice: Twice Thrice causes every third basic attack to apply on-hit effects at 150% effectiveness. This empowered attack triggers Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction with bonus value, creating burst windows of cooldown recovery that align with the stacking rhythm for optimized ability cycling.

Avoid Mystic Punch + Back to Basics: Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which severely limits the value of Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction. Since Mystic Punch reduces all ability cooldowns on-hit, losing access to your ultimate wastes a significant portion of the augment's power, making this pairing fundamentally anti-synergistic for most champions. Avoid Mystic Punch + Slow and Steady: Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static value and prevents all attack speed bonuses from affecting your attack rate. Mystic Punch requires frequent basic attacks to reduce cooldowns, so being locked at a low attack speed drastically reduces the number of on-hit triggers you can generate. Avoid Mystic Punch + Skilled Sniper: Skilled Sniper reduces basic ability cooldowns by 80% when hitting enemies from long range, which heavily overlaps with Mystic Punch's cooldown reduction effect. Both augments compete to accomplish the same goal of ability spam, resulting in redundant diminishing returns rather than stacking power meaningfully. Avoid Mystic Punch + Recursion: Recursion grants 60 ability haste, which provides passive cooldown reduction across all abilities. While not strictly conflicting, this creates significant overlap with Mystic Punch's on-hit cooldown reduction. The passive haste diminishes the relative value of actively attacking to reduce cooldowns, resulting in wasted scaling potential.

Secret Technique: Don't waste charges on minions Don't ignore the displacement's defensive utility, can create distance when chased When enemy has Mercury's Treads, displacement duration is greatly reduced Don't force engage with only 1 charge