Recursion ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Recursion: Reduces all ability cooldowns after participating in takedowns, allowing more frequent ability usage, a core Rune for sustained teamfight damage.

Cycle: Core effect: After participating in a takedown of an enemy champion, reduce all ability current cooldowns by 30%. Assist effect: Assist reduces cooldowns by half (15%). Cooldown rule: No internal cooldown, triggers on every takedown. Stacking rule: Additively stacks with other cooldown reduction effects. Scope: Includes ultimate abilities, basic abilities, and item active abilities.

Cycle: Killing enemy champions Assisting enemy champions (dealing damage or control within 10 seconds before kill) Participating in killing heroes controlled by summons Participating in killing enemy heroes in clone mode

Rinse and Repeat: Killing minions, monsters, towers, Killing allied champions, Enemy champion suicide, Unassisted kills

Cycle: Reduces current remaining cooldown time, not total cooldown time. Also applies to active item abilities (like Zhonya's Hourglass, Luden's Tempest). One multi-kill triggers multiple effects (e.g., pentakill = 5 CDR procs). CDR effect does not reset after resurrection.

Cycle: Champions with long cooldowns (Ziggs, Viktor, Annie) Teamfight carry champions (Katarina, Samira, Master Yi) Champions with large area AOE (Jinx, Brand, Kassadin)

Infinite Loop: Basic attack reliant champions (Draven, Olaf, Tryndamere) Pure tanks (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Champions with already short ability cooldowns (Lux, Neeko)

Infinite Cycles: Prioritize killing low-health enemies in teamfights to trigger cooldown reduction Try to get assists: reduces CD even without kills Immediately use key abilities after kills: maximize cooldown benefit Pair with high-damage abilities: make full use of cooldown reduction

Recursion + Infinite Recursion: Recursion provides a strong base of 60 ability haste, and Infinite Recursion adds another 60 while scaling with takedowns. This combination enables near-cap ability haste early, allowing abilities to be cast extremely frequently in ARAM's constant teamfights. The stacking nature of Infinite Recursion means the synergy becomes even more powerful as the game progresses. Recursion + Ultimate Awakening: Recursion's 60 ability haste accelerates all basic abilities, while Ultimate Awakening resets them on ultimate cast and grants 300 basic ability haste for 15 seconds. Together, these create windows of near-instant ability cooldowns, transforming any champion into a spell-spamming powerhouse during critical teamfight moments when the ultimate is deployed. Recursion + Mystic Punch: Recursion reduces ability cooldowns directly, while Mystic Punch reduces remaining cooldowns by 1.25 seconds on each basic attack. This dual reduction system allows abilities to come off cooldown through both time and attacks, enabling casters with attack speed access to maintain near-permanent ability uptime during extended fights. Recursion + Back to Basics: Recursion's 60 ability haste combines with Back to Basics' additional 70 ability haste and 35% increased ability damage. Though the ultimate is sealed, the total of 130 ability haste fundamentally transforms basic ability champions, allowing them to spam their core abilities with dramatically increased damage output in ARAM's confined space. Recursion + Bread And Butter: Recursion grants 60 ability haste across all abilities, while Bread And Butter adds 100 ability haste specifically to the champion's Q ability. This focused investment allows the primary damage or utility spell to reach extreme cooldown reduction, enabling champions reliant on their Q to cast it nearly twice as often.

Avoid Recursion + Infinite Recursion: Infinite Recursion grants 60 ability haste and scales with takedowns, making the flat 60 ability haste from Recursion completely redundant. Taking both wastes an augment slot since the base effects are identical. Avoid this pairing because you gain no additional benefit from the second copy of the same stat bonus. Avoid Recursion + Bread And Butter: Bread And Butter grants 100 ability haste specifically to your Q ability, which heavily overlaps with the general 60 ability haste from Recursion. This is a low-value pairing because ability haste has diminishing returns and you are investing two augments into the same stat category for one ability. Avoid Recursion + Bread And Jam: Bread And Jam grants 100 ability haste specifically to your W ability, creating significant stat overlap with the general 60 ability haste from Recursion. Avoid this pairing because you are doubling up on ability haste effects without gaining meaningful new mechanics or damage output. Avoid Recursion + Bread And Cheese: Bread And Cheese grants 100 ability haste specifically to your E ability, resulting in redundant ability haste stacking when paired with Recursion. This pairing offers poor value because ability haste suffers from diminishing returns and you sacrifice an augment slot for overlapping stats. Avoid Recursion + The Brutalizer: The Brutalizer grants 10 ability haste alongside minor attack damage and lethality, causing partial stat overlap with Recursion's 60 ability haste. While not strictly conflicting, this is a weak pairing because the small additional haste provides diminishing returns and wastes potential for more impactful synergies.

Infinite Recurrence: Don't think only kills trigger, assists also work. Don't forget ultimate also benefits from cooldown reduction. Don't force teamfights without participating in kills. Note stacking limit with other cooldown runes.