Wind Beneath Blade ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

"Blade Tempest": Gain attack speed on basic attacks that stacks. Exclusive rune for high-attack-speed marksmen.

"Blade's Tempest: Core effect: Gain attack speed for 3 seconds after each basic attack hits an enemy\nBase bonus: 8% attack speed per stack\nStack limit: Max 5 stacks (40% attack speed)\nRefresh mechanic: Refreshes all stacks on subsequent basic attacks\nRange restriction: Only affects enemy champions, minions, and monsters\nRestriction: Only affects basic attacks, enhanced basic attacks can trigger

All basic attacks (including enhanced attacks) Pet basic attacks

Skill damage Item skill damage Healing/shield effects Tower/minion attacks True damage attacks

"Blade Tempest: Multi-target stacking: Each enemy hit by basic attack stacks 1 layer\nConstant refresh: As long as basic attacks continue, attack speed buff persists\nHighest priority: Blade Tempest's attack speed bonus is calculated after all other attack speed bonuses\nDeath retention: Stacks aren't lost on death, continue after revival\nAS cap: Maximum attack speed after stacking is 2.5

"Wind Strike: High attack speed marksmen (Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Auto-attack fighters (Tryndamere, Olaf, Xin Zhao) Jungle champions (Master Yi, Lee Sin, Jarvan IV) Auto-attack reliant champions

Blade's Edge: Ability-based mage (Jinx, Vel'Koz, Ziggs) Pure support (Soraka, Karma, Nami) Pure tank (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) High CD champions

Blade's Edge: Basic attack minions first to stack layers: attack enemy heroes only at 5 stacks. Continuously attack the same target: refresh duration and maintain high attack speed. Use high attack speed for damage output: damage significantly increases at max stacks. Build attack speed items: further increase attack speed. Stay in the backline during team fights: avoid focused fire.

Wind Beneath Blade + Thread the Needle: Thread the Needle provides 18% armor penetration and magic penetration, which directly feeds Wind Beneath Blade's movement speed conversion formula. This grants approximately 9 bonus movement speed from percentage penetration alone, creating a self-sustaining cycle where penetration makes you faster and harder to catch in ARAM's narrow lane. Wind Beneath Blade + The Brutalizer: The Brutalizer grants 5 lethality, which Wind Beneath Blade converts into 7.5 bonus movement speed. This pairing is particularly effective for AD assassins and casters who naturally build lethality items, stacking the conversion multiple times. The additional attack damage and ability haste provide well-rounded offensive stats. Wind Beneath Blade + Don't Blink: Don't Blink scales damage based on movement speed advantage over targets. Wind Beneath Blade generates movement speed from penetration stats, creating a direct synergy where building penetration items simultaneously increases your damage output through both the penetration itself and the speed differential bonus. Wind Beneath Blade + With Haste: With Haste grants bonus movement speed equal to 70% of ability haste. This stacks with Wind Beneath Blade's penetration-based speed, creating dual movement speed sources. Champions who build both penetration and ability haste become exceptionally mobile, making them difficult to pin down during extended ARAM teamfights.

Avoid Wind Beneath Blade + ADAPt: Avoid this pairing because ADAPt converts all bonus attack damage into ability power, which eliminates the lethality and armor penetration stats that Wind Beneath Blade scales from. This conversion leaves Wind Beneath Blade with almost no movement speed bonus to grant, making the augment nearly useless. Avoid Wind Beneath Blade + Slow and Steady: Slow and Steady converts all bonus attack speed into attack damage, but this does not provide the lethality or penetration stats that Wind Beneath Blade requires. The movement speed scaling from Wind Beneath Blade becomes negligible without dedicated penetration itemization, wasting both augments. Avoid Wind Beneath Blade + Celestial Body: Celestial Body grants 1500 bonus health but reduces damage output by 10%, which conflicts with the penetration-focused playstyle that Wind Beneath Blade rewards. Tank builds typically do not stack lethality or penetration, leaving Wind Beneath Blade's movement speed bonus extremely weak. Avoid Wind Beneath Blade + Draw Your Sword: Draw Your Sword forces a melee conversion and provides attack damage, attack speed, health, and movement speed bonuses, but no lethality or penetration. Wind Beneath Blade provides minimal value without penetration stats, creating a mismatch where neither augment supports the other's core scaling.

Blade's Tempest: Don't pick for ability-only heroes: completely unable to trigger effects Don't ignore stacking: max stacks before attacking for higher value Don't build too much attack speed: cap at 2.5, no benefit beyond Don't force teamfights without stacks: no attack speed bonus, low damage Note personal safety: high-attack-speed ADCs are fragile, watch positioning