Adamant ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

"Rock Solid": Gain damage reduction based on resistances, and auto-immune to CC every 3 seconds. The toughest defensive rune for frontliners.

"Rock Solid: Core effect: Gain 2% damage reduction per 100 armor/magic resist (max 30%) Base bonus: Gain 30 armor and 30 magic resist Control immunity: Automatically immune to next enemy control effect every 3 seconds Stacking rules: Damage reduction multiplicatively stacks with other reduction effects Restriction: Cannot suppress or knock-up immunity

Armor and magic resist from equipment and runes Base armor and magic resist growth Temporary armor and magic resist from abilities (like Braum E, Galio W)

HP, AD, AP and other stats True damage (bonus DR doesn't affect true damage) Allied crowd control effects Summoner skill bonus resistances

"Rock Solid: Control immunity priority higher than Quicksilver and Cleanse, triggers before consuming CC items\nDamage reduction calculation: Equipment/skill damage reduction calculated first, then Rock Solid's bonus Balanced resistances provide highest benefit, stacking one resistance type is countered by corresponding enemy damage Death resets control immunity cooldown

"Unbreakable: Pure tanks (Alistar, Leona, Braum) High resist scaling frontliners (Ornn, Malphite, Sion) Initiative-taking supports Tank fighters focused on sustained tanking

Rock-Solid: Pure assassin (Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure AP mage (Ziggs, Vel'Koz) ADC (Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Champions whose spells don't benefit from defensive stats

Rock Solid: Balance armor and magic resist, don't stack only one resistance. Use the every 3 seconds CC immunity to initiate team fights, absorb enemy key CC. Stand in the frontline during team fights to block spells and damage for backline. Build items like Thornmail, Force of Nature to further increase resistances. Build health items when facing true damage champions.

Adamant + Courage of the Colossus: Courage of the Colossus triggers on the same immobilize/ground conditions as Adamant, granting both stacking resistances and a scaling shield simultaneously. This dual defensive trigger makes you significantly tankier with each crowd control ability, creating a frontline presence that becomes harder to kill the longer fights continue. Adamant + Guilty Pleasure: Guilty Pleasure heals you whenever you immobilize or ground enemies, sharing the exact same trigger condition as Adamant's resistance stacking. Each crowd control ability grants both defensive stats and sustain, rewarding champions with frequent immobilizes by making them progressively tankier while recovering health. Adamant + Cruelty: Cruelty summons a damaging comet on immobilize/ground effects, adding offensive pressure to Adamant's defensive stacking. Both augments activate from the same crowd control triggers, converting your disables into a dual threat that deals area damage while building your resistances for sustained teamfighting. Adamant + Slap Around: Slap Around grants adaptive power stacks on immobilize/ground triggers, stacking infinitely alongside Adamant's resistance stacks. Both augments share identical activation conditions, creating a snowball effect where each crowd control ability makes you both tankier and stronger throughout extended ARAM skirmishes.

Avoid Adamant + Glass Cannon: Avoid this pairing because Glass Cannon caps your health at 70% maximum, severely reducing the value of stacking resistances from Adamant. Tank stats become much less effective when your effective health pool is artificially limited, making the defensive scaling from immobilizing enemies significantly less impactful for survival. Avoid Adamant + Vampirism: Avoid this pairing because Vampirism prevents all healing from allies and sets health regeneration to zero. Adamant provides bonus armor and magic resistance for survivability, but Vampirism's restriction on healing synergizes poorly with a defensive playstyle that benefits from sustained healing during extended fights. Avoid Adamant + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady removes all attack speed bonuses and sets base attack speed to a static value. Adamant rewards champions who can frequently immobilize enemies to stack resistances, but this augment discourages the attack-based playstyle that many immobilizing champions rely on. Avoid Adamant + Back to Basics: Avoid this pairing because Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability. Many champions rely on their ultimate for crowd control to trigger Adamant's resistance stacking, and losing this key ability reduces opportunities to immobilize enemies and gain the defensive bonuses.

Rock Solid: Don't pick for squishy heroes: low resistances provide little damage reduction, better with survival runes Don't ignore control immunity cooldown: don't force fights during cooldown Don't forget true damage counters: be careful against champions like Irelia and Pyke Don't build too much damage: Rock Solid is defensive, damage items waste its value Watch positioning during control immunity cooldown to avoid being bursted