Witchful Thinking ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Wizard's Mentality: Abilities prioritize targeting the lowest health enemy, automatically locking onto low-health targets, a cleanup tool for mages and poke champions.

"Wizard's Mindset: Core Effect: Your non-targeted skills will automatically prioritize hitting the lowest health enemy champion within range\nPriority: Lowest health > Closest distance > Mouse target\nRange limit: Within maximum skill range\nApplies to all non-targeted skills\nTargeted skills are unaffected

Wizard's Mind: All non-targeted skills Equipment skills (such as Luden's Echo) Non-targeted damage from runes Pets' non-targeted skills

Wizard's Mind: Targeted abilities, Basic attacks, Tick damage from DoT abilities, Passive effects

Wizard's Thinking: Doesn't Work on Minions and Monsters: Only prioritizes enemy champions When multiple low health targets, targets the one with lowest health Can be overridden by mouse targeting Applies to ultimate abilities

Wizard's Mind: Mages with many non-targeted skills (like Ziggs, Ziggs, Viktor) Poke champions Champions lacking carry potential Players with poor mechanical skill

Champions with many skill-shot abilities Melee champions ADC champions Champions who rely on precise aiming

Wizard's Mindset: Don't focus on low-health targets in team fights: skills auto-lock onto them Use auto-lock to finish off low-health enemies When poking, cast skills freely: they'll automatically hit the lowest health enemy To target specific units, mouse-over to override auto-lock

Witchful Thinking + Eureka: Witchful Thinking grants scaling ability power throughout the game, which directly feeds into Eureka's conversion of 30% AP into ability haste. This creates a powerful scaling loop where more AP translates into more frequent ability casts, significantly increasing damage output and utility in extended ARAM teamfights. Witchful Thinking + Jeweled Gauntlet: Witchful Thinking provides a solid ability power foundation that increases Jeweled Gauntlet's critical strike chance formula, since it grants 25% plus 4.5% per 100 AP. The ability power also amplifies the damage of abilities that can now critically strike for 145% plus bonus critical damage, creating excellent burst potential. Witchful Thinking + Magic Missile: Witchful Thinking's ability power amplifies all ability damage, which triggers Magic Missile to fire three Firecrackers at enemies hit. The additional AP scales the triggering abilities while Magic Missile adds percentage max health true damage, creating strong hybrid damage output that is difficult for enemies to itemize against. Witchful Thinking + Phenomenal Evil: Witchful Thinking provides base ability power that helps abilities deal meaningful damage, which triggers Phenomenal Evil to generate permanent AP stacks on champion damage. This creates exponential scaling where the initial AP boost enables faster stack generation, leading to massive late-game ability power in extended ARAM fights. Witchful Thinking + Big Brain: Witchful Thinking grants scaling ability power that directly increases Big Brain's shield strength, since it absorbs damage equal to 300% AP. This combination provides significant defensive capability for mages, allowing them to survive burst damage and continue casting abilities in the narrow ARAM lane.

Avoid Witchful Thinking + EscAPADe: Avoid this pairing because EscAPADe converts all ability power into bonus attack damage, completely nullifying the ability power granted by Witchful Thinking. This creates a direct mechanical conflict where the raw stats from Witchful Thinking are immediately removed and converted, making the initial augment's effect entirely wasted. Avoid Witchful Thinking + Blunt Force: Witchful Thinking provides ability power, which does not scale with Blunt Force's 20% attack damage increase. For ability power champions who would take Witchful Thinking, Blunt Force offers no benefit to their primary scaling stat, resulting in a stat mismatch that wastes an augment slot. Avoid Witchful Thinking + Deft: Witchful Thinking grants ability power for ability-based champions, while Deft provides 60% bonus attack speed for auto-attackers. These stats scale different playstyles and damage sources, creating a hybrid build that lacks focus and fails to meaningfully amplify either attack or ability damage. Avoid Witchful Thinking + Slow and Steady: Slow and Steady removes all attack speed bonuses and converts them to attack damage, but Witchful Thinking provides ability power which does not benefit from this conversion. The playstyle conflict between a static attack speed build and ability power scaling results in poor synergy and wasted potential.

Wizard's Mindset: Don't rely on auto-lock when you need precise targeting, like focusing the enemy carry. Don't ignore the mouse targeting override feature for manual target selection. Don't pick this on champions with many targeted skills the benefit is minimal. Note the max range of your skills targets beyond range won't be locked.