Sonic Boom ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Sonic Boom: Hitting an enemy with a spell triggers a sonic blast, dealing AoE magic damage and silencing surrounding enemies. A mage's teamfight control tool.

"Thundercrash: Core effect: Each time an ability hits an enemy champion, trigger a Thundercrash dealing magic damage to enemies within 250 units\nBase damage: Thundercrash deals 40-160 magic damage (scales with level)\nScaling: Thundercrash damage receives 60% AP scaling\nSilence effect: Enemies hit by Thundercrash are silenced for 0.5 seconds\nCooldown: Each ability cast can only trigger one Thundercrash, regardless of number of hits\nRange falloff: Damage decreases with distance from explosion center, minimum 50%

All active ability damage (including AD and AP conversion abilities) Equipment ability damage (like Luden's Tempest, Liandry's Torment) Pet ability damage (like Annie's bear, Malzahar's Voidling) First hit from damage over time abilities

Basic attacks (including empowered) Pure AD skill damage True damage skills Healing/shield effects Subsequent damage in multi-hit skills Tower and minion attacks

Thundercrash: Silence stacks: Multiple Thundercrashes on same enemy stack silence duration to 2s max Penetration effect: Thundercrash penetrates minions and monsters, only explodes on champions Crit compatibility: Thundercrash can trigger skill crit from Runaan's Hurricane Center damage: Center targets take 150% damage Skill interaction: Thundercrash silence interrupts enemy casts

"Skyfall: Large AOE mages (Brand, Kennen, Morgana) Short cooldown mages (Lux, Neeko, Viktor) Control mages (Annie, Annie, Ahri) Teamfight support mages (Karma, Lulu)

Sonic Boom: Pure AD champions (Vayne, Draven, Darius) Basic attack ADC Pure tank High CD champions DOT mage (Teemo, Cassiopeia, Singed)

Thunderous Blast: Prioritize AP: higher AP increases damage and silence duration Aim enemy center with spells: silence more enemies with Thunderous Blast Initiate with CC: use silence to interrupt enemy abilities Focus on clearing waves early: fast push to develop Watch skill placement: try to hit enemy carries with the blast center

Sonic Boom + Windspeaker's Blessing: Windspeaker's Blessing amplifies every heal and shield you cast with bonus resistances for allies, while Sonic Boom converts those same supportive actions into true damage and slows around your buffed targets. This creates a powerful offensive-defensive loop where protecting allies simultaneously punishes nearby enemies in ARAM's clustered teamfights. Sonic Boom + First-Aid Kit: First-Aid Kit provides 20% heal and shield power, directly increasing the effectiveness of every supportive ability that triggers Sonic Boom. Stronger heals and shields mean more reliable ally sustain while maintaining the same true damage output, making this a straightforward stat multiplier for enchanter playstyles. Sonic Boom + All For You: All For You increases your heals and shields on allied champions by 30%, triggering Sonic Boom more frequently with stronger support output. The enhanced healing values synergize perfectly with Sonic Boom's trigger condition, rewarding dedicated support play with consistent area damage and crowd control. Sonic Boom + Protein Shake: Protein Shake grants massive heal and shield power scaling with your resistances, up to 25% or more. This dramatically empowers every buff, heal, and shield that activates Sonic Boom, creating a tank-support hybrid that outputs significant true damage while keeping allies healthy through sustained teamfights.

Avoid Sonic Boom + Vampirism: Avoid this pairing because Vampirism completely disables all incoming allied healing, which removes a primary trigger condition for Sonic Boom. With health regeneration set to zero and no ally healing possible, Sonic Boom can only activate from shields or buffs you grant, severely reducing its uptime and damage output. Avoid Sonic Boom + Back to Basics: Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which forces a playstyle centered on basic ability damage rather than support utility. While the stats are strong, losing an ultimate often means fewer buff, heal, or shield casts for allies, reducing Sonic Boom trigger opportunities and making this a conflicting strategic choice. Avoid Sonic Boom + All For You: All For You increases the effectiveness of heals and shields on allied champions by 30%, but provides no direct synergy with Sonic Boom's damage or slow effect. The augment encourages a dedicated enchanter playstyle, yet Sonic Boom's low base damage and 2-second cooldown limit the payoff, making this a low-value pairing. Avoid Sonic Boom + First-Aid Kit: First-Aid Kit grants 20% heal and shield power, which increases the strength of your supportive abilities but does not enhance Sonic Boom's true damage or slow. The damage dealt by Sonic Boom is flat true damage based on level, so the heal and shield power stat is entirely wasted on the augment's offensive component.

Thunderlord's Decree: Don't give it to AD champions, as the Ability Power scaling is very poor. Don't ignore the silence effect many players only focus on damage and forget it can interrupt enemy abilities. Don't use damage-over-time abilities to proc, as only the first hit triggers Thunderlord's. Don't waste abilities on single targets each ability can only proc once, try to hit multiple enemies. Don't force damage when behind, as Thunderlord's champions are fragile and should build defensive items first.