Poltergeist ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

"Poltergeist": Become untargetable after death, continuing to damage and slow enemies. An exclusive rune for suicide champions.

Poltergeist: Core effect: After death, becomes a poltergeist for 5 seconds. Stats: Unselectable, +50% MS. Damage: Deals 30-80 magic damage per second to enemies in 200 range (scales with level). Slow: Slows enemies by 20% for 1 second. Limit: Cannot use abilities or summoner spells.

Poltergeist: Automatically triggers on death. Deals damage and slows nearby enemies during duration.

Poltergeist: While alive, after Poltergeist duration ends

Poltergeist: Damage Stacking: Stacks with other DoTs. Slow Refresh: Refreshes slow effect every second. Area Scaling: +50 damage range per 100 AP. Damage Inheritance: Benefits from your AP while dead.

Ghost: Melee fighters, initiators, kamikaze champions, pure tanks

Poltergeist: Ranged squishies Late game hypercarries Supports Champions that need to stay alive to deal damage

Ghost Bride: Can initiate teamfights, still deals damage and slows after death. Build AP items to increase ghost damage and range. Control ghost movement to enemy team after death. Help teammates kill slowed enemies. Don't fear death, still useful after death.

Poltergeist + First-Aid Kit + With Haste: Poltergeist provides both a substantial shield and movement speed, making First-Aid Kit's 20% heal and shield power directly amplify the Barrier shield for significantly more survivability. With Haste converts ability haste into bonus movement speed, stacking multiplicatively with Poltergeist's Ghost effect for exceptional kiting and chase potential in ARAM's narrow lane. Poltergeist + Windspeaker's Blessing + Homeguard: Giant Slayer grants 20% bonus movement speed and size reduction, stacking with Poltergeist's 30% Ghost speed for superior mobility while making you harder to target. Homeguard provides 100% bonus movement speed that combines with Poltergeist for rapid repositioning after taking damage, enabling aggressive engage and disengage cycles. Poltergeist + Mighty Shield + Restless Restoration: Mighty Shield grants adaptive force when gaining a shield, triggering from Poltergeist's Barrier for a damage boost during the 5-second window. Scoped Weapons provides bonus attack range, allowing you to safely poke from distance while Poltergeist's combined shield and speed keep you protected during extended trades. Poltergeist + Crack Open That Egg + Protein Shake: Crack Open That Egg detonates shields upon expiration, dealing magic damage equal to the shield's strength to nearby enemies, turning Poltergeist's defensive Barrier into an offensive burst. Protein Shield provides heal and shield power scaling with resistances, amplifying both the shield value and subsequent explosion damage.

Avoid Poltergeist + Vampirism: Vampirism prevents you from being healed by allies and sets your health regeneration to 0, which directly conflicts with Poltergeist's utility. While the Ghost speed remains useful, the Barrier shield becomes significantly less valuable when you cannot receive any other healing, wasting a major portion of this summoner spell replacement's defensive value. Avoid Poltergeist + Flashy: Flashy replaces a summoner spell with Flash, and Poltergeist also replaces a summoner spell. In ARAM: Mayhem, players typically only have two summoner spell slots, so acquiring both augments forces you to lose access to Mark/Dash, the essential engage tool on Howling Abyss, severely limiting your playmaking options. Avoid Poltergeist + First-Aid Kit: First-Aid Kit grants 20% heal and shield power, which would theoretically amplify Poltergeist's Barrier shield. However, Poltergeist is a Silver tier 5 augment with a low pick rate and below-average win rate, making it a weak foundation to build around. Investing stat scaling into a mediocre summoner replacement yields poor returns. Avoid Poltergeist + Protein Shake: Protein Shake provides substantial heal and shield power scaling with resistances, but Poltergeist offers only a single-target self-shield and movement speed on a cooldown. This Prismatic tier augment is too valuable to waste on such limited synergy. The payoff does not justify committing a high-tier augment slot to amplify one mediocre spell.

Poltergeist: Don't think you can feed recklessly with Poltergeist, death still loses gold and XP. Don't ignore the 5-second duration. Don't give up before duration ends, can deal significant damage. In losing games, Poltergeist can delay enemy push, buying time for teammates.