Tank It Or Leave It ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Critical Deflection: When you take critical strike damage, gain a shield that absorbs some damage. A survival rune for champions vulnerable to critical strikes.

Critical Defense: Core effect: When taking critical strike damage, gain a shield equal to 30% of the critical strike damage, lasting 2 seconds. Cooldown: 5 seconds. Shield rule: Shield is prioritized for consumption. Scope: Includes all types of critical strike damage (basic attack crits, skill crits). Stacking rule: Multiple shields can stack.

When taking critical strike damage from enemy champions All types of critical strike damage While shield is active

When taking non-critical damage When receiving healing When shield absorbs damage

Critical Defense: Shield value is calculated based on actual critical strike damage taken Critical strikes from true damage also trigger Cooldown starts when taking critical strike damage Multiple critical strikes simultaneously will stack shield values

Heartened Defense: Squishy damage dealers (ADC, Mages) Assassins (Zed, Talon, Akali) Champions vulnerable to critical hits

Heartseeker Defense: Pure tanks (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Heroes with high armor and magic resist Pure supports (Soraka, Karma, Nami)

Critical Defense: Prioritize against high crit compositions Use the shield to negate critical damage During the shield duration, you can fight back or escape Combine with other survival runes for maximum survivability

Tank It Or Leave It + It's Critical: Tank It Or Leave It grants 25% crit and converts crit chance into Critical Defend Chance up to 50%. It's Critical provides 50% crit chance, instantly capping the damage reduction conversion. This combination guarantees maximum defensive value from the target augment while enabling offensive crit scaling, making it extremely efficient for bruisers and tanks who want both survivability and damage output. Tank It Or Leave It + Soul Siphon: Soul Siphon grants 25% crit chance and heals for 12% of post-mitigation damage dealt by critical strikes. Combined with Tank It Or Leave It's 25% crit, this reaches 50% crit for maximum Critical Defend Chance. The synergy provides both defensive damage reduction and offensive sustain, creating a self-sustaining frontline presence that survives longer and heals from crit-based damage output. Tank It Or Leave It + Critical Healing: Critical Healing grants 25% crit chance and causes heals and shields to have a crit-based chance for 40% increased effectiveness. Combined with Tank It Or Leave It's 25% crit, this reaches 50% for maximum Critical Defend Chance. The shared crit stat investment provides dual returns: defensive damage reduction on yourself and amplified healing output for supports and self-sustaining champions. Tank It Or Leave It + Critical Rhythm: Critical Rhythm grants 25% crit chance and awards bonus attack speed on critical strikes, stacking up to 60%. Combined with Tank It Or Leave It's 25% crit, this reaches 50% for maximum Critical Defend Chance. The combination rewards aggressive auto-attackers with increasing attack speed while maintaining strong defensive capabilities through the damage reduction conversion mechanic.

Avoid Tank It Or Leave It + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static value and prevents all attack speed bonuses from functioning. This severely conflicts with Tank It Or Leave It's defensive purpose, as the critical strike chance provided cannot be leveraged through basic attacks to reach the 50% Critical Defend Chance cap efficiently, wasting the core defensive scaling mechanic. Avoid Tank It Or Leave It + It's Critical: This pairing is redundant and inefficient. Tank It Or Leave It already grants 25% critical strike chance and converts it to Critical Defend Chance up to 50%. It's Critical provides 50% critical strike chance, but the excess 25% over the cap provides no additional defensive benefit, making a significant portion of this combination wasted value. Avoid Tank It Or Leave It + Soul Siphon: This pairing has poor synergy because Soul Siphon heals for 12% of post-mitigation damage dealt by critical strikes, encouraging an offensive playstyle. Tank It Or Leave It converts critical strike chance into a defensive mechanic. The conflicting priorities waste the offensive potential of Soul Siphon while providing redundant critical strike chance that could be better allocated. Avoid Tank It Or Leave It + Critical Healing: Avoid this pairing because both augments provide 25% critical strike chance, resulting in 50% total. However, Tank It Or Leave It caps Critical Defend Chance at 50%, meaning the conversion mechanic is already satisfied by its own grant. Critical Healing's additional chance becomes redundant for the defensive conversion, wasting the overlap in critical strike chance provision.

Heartseeker Defense: Don't assume only basic attack crits can trigger it, skill crits can too Don't ignore the shield's 5-second cooldown, can only trigger once every 5 seconds Don't take it when enemy has no crit champions, extremely low value Pay attention to the shield duration, only lasts 2 seconds