Slow Cooker ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Simmer: Damage dealt to the same target gradually increases over time. Getting stronger as you fight. A core damage amplifying rune for damage-over-time champions.

Slow Cooker: Core effect: When dealing damage to the same target, damage increases by 5% per second. Max bonus: Up to 50% damage increase. Reset rule: Bonus resets when changing targets or failing to deal damage to target for 5 seconds. Effect range: Includes all damage over time effects (runes, items, abilities). Stacking rule: Multiplies with other damage increase effects.

Slow Cooker: When dealing damage to the same target over time All types of damage over time (burn, poison, bleed) Every tick of damage over time

Slow Cooker: Burst damage, When changing targets, When not dealing damage for 5 seconds

Slow Cooker: Bonus stacks once per second, max 10 seconds to fully stack. Also applies to true damage. Multiple damage-over-time effects share the bonus. Can trigger on minions and monsters

Slow Cook: Damage over time champions (Brand, Lillia, Teemo, Anivia) Multi-hit ability champions (Jinx, Viktor, Kennen) High attack speed auto-attack champions (Vayne, Jinx, Kassadin)

Slow Cooker: Pure burst assassins (Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure tanks (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Heroes with very long ability cooldowns (Tryndamere, Malphite, Ornn)

Slow Cook: Focus on attacking the same target, don't switch easily. Use continuous damage to maintain pressure on target. Damage increases significantly after stacking max stacks. Prioritize attacking front line in teamfights, melt them quickly after max stacks.

Slow Cooker + Goliath: Goliath grants 35% bonus health, which directly amplifies Slow Cooker's burn damage since it scales with maximum health. The additional adaptive force and increased size further enhance your ability to stay near enemies within the 500-unit burn radius. This combination turns you into a tanky damage-over-time threat that scales harder with survivability. Slow Cooker + Celestial Body: Celestial Body provides 1500 bonus health, massively increasing Slow Cooker's burn damage output. The 10% damage reduction is negligible since Slow Cooker deals percentage-based damage that scales infinitely. This combination creates a durable frontline presence that deals substantial area damage simply by existing near enemy champions. Slow Cooker + Tank Engine: Tank Engine grants stacking maximum health increases with each champion takedown, permanently scaling Slow Cooker's burn damage throughout the match. The growing size from stacks also makes it easier to maintain the 500-unit proximity requirement. This snowballing combination rewards aggressive play with escalating area damage. Slow Cooker + Soul Eater: Soul Eater grants infinite stacking health whenever you immobilize or ground enemies, permanently amplifying Slow Cooker's burn damage. Champions with crowd control abilities can rapidly stack this synergy. The combination creates a scaling damage threat that becomes increasingly difficult to kill while dealing more area damage over time. Slow Cooker + Vulnerability: Vulnerability allows damage over time effects to critically strike, enabling Slow Cooker's burn to deal 145% plus bonus critical damage. The 25% critical strike chance provides consistent damage amplification. This offensive combination transforms a tank-scaling burn into a burst damage threat that shreds grouped enemies in ARAM's narrow lane.

Avoid Slow Cooker + Scopier Weapons: Slow Cooker requires you to stay within 500 units of enemies to apply its burn effect, but Scopier Weapons grants 200 bonus attack range. This creates a fundamental conflict where your optimal positioning for auto-attacks keeps you outside the flame aura's effective radius, wasting the augment's core damage mechanic. Avoid Slow Cooker + Scopiest Weapons: Slow Cooker's flames only affect enemies within 500 units, yet Scopiest Weapons grants 250 bonus attack range. This extreme range increase forces you to choose between using your attack range advantage or maintaining burn uptime, resulting in significant anti-synergy that undermines the augment's value. Avoid Slow Cooker + Glass Cannon: Glass Cannon caps your health at 70% maximum health, which directly reduces Slow Cooker's burn damage since it scales with 0.66% of your maximum health per second. This pairing severely diminishes the burn's effectiveness while also removing the tankiness that helps you stay in flame range. Avoid Slow Cooker + Repulsor: Repulsor knocks back all enemies within 500 units when you drop below 35% health, which is the exact same radius as Slow Cooker's flame aura. This anti-synergy forcibly removes enemies from your burn zone when you need the damage most, completely neutralizing the augment's effect during critical moments. Avoid Slow Cooker + Slow and Steady: Slow Cooker benefits from building health to increase burn damage, but Slow and Steady converts all attack speed bonuses into attack damage while locking your attack speed. This pairing offers no synergy with the burn mechanic and wastes potential stat scaling that could enhance the flame aura's effectiveness.

Slow Cookin': Don't easily switch targets, resets damage bonus Don't ignore the 5-second reset time, refresh damage Don't take with pure burst, extremely low value Note time to max stacks, reaches max damage after 10 seconds