Critical Rhythm ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Critical Rhythm: Gains attack speed and movement speed after critical strikes, making you faster with each crit, a core Rune for ADCs and basic attack champions.

"Critical Rhythm: Core Effect: After a critical strike, gain 30% attack speed and 15% move speed for 2 seconds Stacking rules: Can stack 3 times, max 90% attack speed and 45% move speed Refresh mechanic: Another critical strike refreshes duration Applies to all basic attacks Includes empowered basic attacks

Critical Rhythm: All basic attack critical strikes Empowered attack critical strikes Equipment attack effect critical strikes

Critical Rhythm: Skill crits, True damage crits, Healing/Shields, Tower attacks

Critical Rhythm: Stacks are calculated independently: each critical strike adds a stack, each lasting 2 seconds. Movement speed bonus can stack with other movement speed effects. Attack speed bonus can stack with other attack speed effects. Also affects summoned units' basic attacks.

Crit Rhythm: Auto-attack ADC champions (like Vayne, Jinx, Draven) Auto-attack fighters (like Master Yi, Tryndamere, Olaf) High crit rate champions Attack speed-reliant champions

Pure AP mages Pure tank champions Pure support champions Ability-based champions

Crit Cadence: Prioritize Critical Strike Chance: higher chance increases crit cadence frequency Use high attack speed and movement speed for damage and chasing At 3 stacks, damage and mobility are maximized Auto-attack to stack, then deal damage in team fights

Critical Rhythm + Double Tap: Double Tap causes critical strikes to apply on-hit effects an additional time, while Critical Rhythm grants 25% critical strike chance and stacking attack speed on crits. Together, every critical strike doubles on-hit damage output and accelerates attack speed stacking, creating a self-reinforcing cycle where faster attacks trigger more crits, which further increases attack speed and on-hit application. Critical Rhythm + Soul Siphon: Twice Thrice stores up to 2 stacks, then consumes them to apply on-hit effects at 150% effectiveness. Critical Rhythm provides 25% crit chance and attack speed that stacks on crits. The amplified on-hit procs from Twice Thrice can critically strike, triggering the attack speed buff while dealing significantly increased damage per empowered auto attack. Critical Rhythm + Critical Missile: Critical Missile launches Firecrackers at enemies when you critically strike them, scaling with crit chance. Critical Rhythm provides 25% crit chance and stacking attack speed on crits. Each critical strike triggers both the Firecracker projectiles and attack speed stacks, converting crits into additional magic damage while accelerating your attack rate for more frequent crits. Critical Rhythm + Soul Siphon + Double Tap: This triple combination maximizes on-hit critical strike synergy. Double Tap doubles on-hit effects on crits, Twice Thrice empowers every third attack with 150% on-hit effectiveness, and Critical Rhythm provides the crit chance and stacking attack speed. Together, they create exponential damage scaling where crits trigger multiple on-hit instances while rapidly building attack speed.

Avoid Critical Rhythm + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady sets your base attack speed to a static amount and prevents your attack rate from benefiting from any attack speed bonuses. Critical Rhythm grants up to 60% bonus attack speed on critical strikes, which becomes completely wasted since the attack speed scaling is disabled. Avoid Critical Rhythm + It's Critical: This pairing has significant redundancy. Critical Rhythm already grants 25% critical strike chance, so taking It's Critical for another 50% critical strike chance wastes 25% of the total value. The attack speed from Critical Rhythm stacks slowly, making the excess crit chance inefficient compared to other offensive options. Avoid Critical Rhythm + Deft: Critical Rhythm provides up to 60% bonus attack speed that must be stacked through critical strikes over time. Deft grants 60% bonus attack speed immediately and unconditionally. Taking both wastes the stacking mechanic of Critical Rhythm since you already have the maximum attack speed it can provide. Avoid Critical Rhythm + Purist - Caster: Purist - Caster converts all bonus attack speed into ability haste, directly conflicting with Critical Rhythm's core mechanic. Critical Rhythm is designed to reward critical strike builds with stacking attack speed, but Purist - Caster removes the attack speed benefit entirely, defeating the augment's purpose.

Crit Cadence: Don't pick this on ability-based champions completely useless. Don't ignore the stacking effect benefit is extremely high after reaching 3 stacks. Don't build too much attack speed Crit Cadence already provides significant attack speed. Note duration stacks disappear after 2 seconds, maintain by continuous critical strikes.