Cruelty ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Savage: Deal extra damage to controlled enemies, with damage increasing based on control duration. A core damage rune for all control-based champions.

Brutal: Core effect: Deal 15% bonus damage to enemies under any crowd control effect. Bonus effect: For each additional second of control, bonus damage increases by 5%, up to 35% max. Control types: Includes all control effects like stun, root, slow, knockback, pull, silence, etc. Duration: Bonus damage lasts 1 second after control ends. Stacking rule: With multiple controls, the longest duration is used for calculation.

All basic attacks (including enhanced attacks) All ability damage Equipment ability damage Pet damage Against enemies under any CC effects

Against uncontrollable enemies Healing/shield effects Tower/minion attacks Reflected damage Allied damage

Relentless: Full bonus damage on each tick of continuous CC (like Morgana R) Bonus damage can trigger Runaan's crit Slow effect triggers even with 0.5s duration for base 15% bonus Doesn't work on friendly CC

Merciless: Multi-hit control champions (Mordekaiser, Jarvan IV, Morgana) Hard CC supports (Alistar, Leona, Braum) Initiating fighters (Hecarim, Sejuani, Lulu) Damage dealers配合队友控制

Ruthless: Heroes with no crowd control (Vayne, Draven, Tryndamere) Pure burst assassins (Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure tank frontliners (Ornn, Tryndamere) Sustained damage reliant champions

Relentless: Always control before attacking to maximize bonus damage Combine with teammates' CC chains to keep enemies controlled Prioritize controlling enemy carries to burst them down Use slow abilities to trigger the base bonus

Cruelty + Courage of the Colossus + Slap Around: Cruelty triggers on immobilize or ground effects, summoning a damaging comet. Courage of the Colossus provides a stacking shield on the same trigger, adding survivability. Slap Around grants stacking adaptive force per immobilize, scaling damage for both the comet and abilities. Together, each crowd control instance yields damage, defense, and permanent stat growth for sustained teamfight dominance. Cruelty + Guilty Pleasure + Tormentor: Cruelty summons a comet on immobilize or ground. Guilty Pleasure heals you on the same trigger, adding sustain during engagements. Tormentor applies a max health burn to immobilized enemies, stacking damage on top of the comet. This triple-synergy turns every crowd control ability into damage, healing, and burn for extended skirmish presence. Cruelty + Adamant + Soul Eater: Cruelty triggers a comet on immobilize or ground effects. Adamant grants stacking bonus resistances per immobilize, improving durability in prolonged fights. Soul Eater grants permanent bonus health per immobilize, scaling your maximum health which directly increases Cruelty's comet damage through its health ratio. This combination scales both offense and defense infinitely. Cruelty + Celestial Body + Eureka: Cruelty's comet scales with both AP and maximum health. Celestial Body grants 1500 bonus health, massively boosting the comet's health ratio damage. Eureka converts AP into ability haste, enabling more frequent crowd control casts to trigger Cruelty. The health pool also improves survivability, allowing more opportunities to land immobilizing abilities in ARAM's constant teamfights.

Avoid Cruelty + Back to Basics: Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which severely limits your champion's crowd control potential on many kits. Cruelty requires immobilizing or grounding enemies to trigger its comet effect, so losing access to ultimate abilities that often provide reliable hard crowd control directly reduces the number of triggers you can generate in fights. Avoid Cruelty + Slow and Steady: Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static value and removes all attack speed bonus benefits, forcing a basic-attack focused playstyle. Cruelty triggers from ability-based crowd control and scales with AP and maximum health, creating a fundamental mismatch where one augment pushes auto-attacks while the other rewards spell usage. Avoid Cruelty + Vampirism: Vampirism sets your health regeneration to zero and prevents ally healing, which conflicts with Cruelty's maximum health scaling on the comet damage. Building health to increase Cruelty's damage becomes riskier when you have no natural regeneration, and the playstyle incentives diverge between sustain-focused combat and crowd control fishing. Avoid Cruelty + Glass Cannon: Glass Cannon caps your health at 70% of maximum health with no way to exceed it, which directly reduces the maximum health scaling component of Cruelty's comet damage. The 4% maximum health ratio becomes less valuable when your health pool is artificially limited, wasting part of the augment's damage potential.

Relentless: Don't deal damage before applying control effects, wastes bonus damage Don't ignore that slow effects also trigger bonuses, high value in kiting fights When enemy ADC gets QSS, switch focus to other targets Don't forget bonus damage still applies for 1 second after control ends