Critical Missile ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Critical Missiles: Basic attacks and abilities fire a homing critical missile that always crits, fast for early waveclear and strong against tanks late game, a T1 choice for mixed damage champions.

Critical Missile: Core effect: Each basic attack or skill hit on enemy champions fires 1 homing missile, dealing physical damage with guaranteed critical strike. Base damage: Missiles deal 30-120 physical damage (scales with level). Stat bonus: Missile damage gains 50% attack damage and 30% AP scaling. Critical damage: Base critical damage for missiles is 175%, stacks with items like Infinity Edge. Cooldown: Each target can only trigger a missile once every 0.75 seconds. Multi-target limit: When hitting multiple enemies, each enemy independently triggers a missile.

Critical Missile: All basic attacks (including empowered attacks like Draven Q, Gangplank Q) All active skill damage (both AD and AP abilities) Equipment skill damage (such as Luden's Echo, Ice Gauntlet, Trinity Force) Pet basic attacks (such as Annie's bear, Malzahar's Voidling)

Critical Missile: Tick damage from DoT abilities (Brand passive, Lillia Q), True damage abilities (Sett R, Pyke R), Healing/Shields, Tower/minion attacks, Enemy hero suicides or killed by allies

Critical Missile: Missile Tracking: Missiles automatically track and cannot be dodged unless target becomes untargetable On-Hit Effects: Missiles can trigger on-hit effects (e.g., Blade of the Ruined King, Black Cleaver) Critical Stacks: Critical damage from missiles benefits from all critical damage bonuses, including skill crits from Runaan's Hurricane Multi-Trigger: Multi-hit skills trigger separate missiles for each target (e.g., Jinx Q hitting 3 targets = 3 missiles) Level Scaling: Missile damage increases by 5 per level, reaching 120 base damage at level 18

Crit Missile: High attack speed auto-attack champions (like Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Multi-hit skill champions (like Ziggs, Viktor, Brand) Mixed damage champions (like Ezreal, Jayce, Kennen) Summoner champions (like Annie, Malzahar, Yorick)

Pure burst assassins (like Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure tanks (like Alistar, Leona, Braum) Heroes with extremely long skill cooldowns (like Tryndamere, Volibear, Ornn) Heroes focused on sustained damage (like Teemo, Anivia, Singed)

Critical Missiles: Prioritize attack speed and AD: higher attack speed means more missile triggers. Build Infinity Edge: IE significantly increases crit damage and is core. Use multi-hit abilities to trigger missiles: hitting multiple enemies with multi-hit abilities triggers many missiles, great for wave clearing and teamfights. Focus on wave clearing early: missiles clear waves very fast, allowing for fast push and scaling. Focus on frontline in teamfights: missiles deal significant damage to tanks, quickly melting them.

Critical Missile + Double Tap: Critical Missile triggers Firecrackers on critical strikes, and Double Tap causes those same critical strikes to apply on-hit effects an additional time. Both augments provide 25% critical strike chance, reaching 50% total for consistent procs. The double on-hit application synergizes with Firecracker damage, effectively doubling the bonus magic damage output from Critical Missile triggers on every critical attack. Critical Missile + Critical Rhythm: Critical Rhythm grants stacking attack speed on critical strikes, which directly enables more frequent Critical Missile triggers. Both augments provide 25% critical strike chance each, reaching 50% total chance. The attack speed ramps up to 60% bonus during extended fights, creating a snowball effect where faster attacks produce more criticals, which generate more attack speed for even more Critical Missile procs. Critical Missile + Soul Siphon: Twice Thrice empowers every third basic attack to apply on-hit effects at 150% effectiveness, and Critical Missile's Firecrackers count as on-hit damage. Combined with the 25% critical chance from Critical Missile, this creates burst windows where Firecrackers deal amplified damage. The stacking mechanic rewards sustained attacking, making Critical Missile triggers more impactful during the empowered attack cadence. Critical Missile + Tap Dancer: Tap Dancer grants infinite stacking movement speed on attacks and converts movement speed to attack speed. The 25% critical chance from Critical Missile enables consistent Firecracker triggers, and the accelerating attack speed from Tap Dancer dramatically increases critical strike frequency. This creates a scaling feedback loop where more attacks generate more speed, resulting in more criticals and more Firecracker launches.

Avoid Critical Missile + Back to Basics: Avoid this pairing because Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, forcing a playstyle centered on basic ability spam. Critical Missile requires building critical strike chance and relies on basic attacks to trigger its Firecracker effect, creating a fundamental role mismatch between ability-focused and auto-attack-focused gameplay that wastes both augments' potential. Avoid Critical Missile + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady sets your attack speed to a static 0.625 and prevents all attack speed bonuses from working. Critical Missile relies on frequent critical strikes to launch Firecrackers, but Slow and Steady severely limits your attack frequency, dramatically reducing the number of Critical Missile triggers you can produce. Avoid Critical Missile + It's Critical: Avoid this pairing because It's Critical grants 50% critical strike chance, which heavily overlaps with Critical Missile's built-in 25% critical strike chance. While not completely redundant, this combination wastes an augment slot on raw stat overlap when Critical Missile already provides the critical strike chance needed to fuel its own Firecracker effect. Avoid Critical Missile + Draw Your Sword: Avoid this pairing because Draw Your Sword forces you to become melee with 200 attack range. Critical Missile triggers on critical strikes against enemy champions, but the reduced range makes it significantly harder and riskier to get auto-attacks off safely in ARAM, reducing the effective uptime of your Firecracker triggers.

Critical Missiles: Don't take on pure AP mages: AD scaling on missiles is very weak for pure AP mages better to take AP runes. Don't ignore AD scaling: Many AP players only stack AP, resulting in low missile damage. Don't build too much crit: Missiles always crit, so no need to stack crit rate instead build AD and crit damage. Don't forget missiles can trigger on-hit effects: Items like Blade of the Ruined King or Black Cleaver significantly increase missile damage. Watch target cooldown: Missiles can only trigger once per target every 0.75 seconds don't spam skills on the same target. Don't force damage in losing lanes: Critical Missile champions are squishy in losing lanes, build defensive items first.