Augment Details Gold T1 Patch 26.9

What Not to Pair with Critical Missile

What not to pair with Critical Missile in ARAM Mayhem, covering bad augment synergies and low-value combinations.

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What Not to Pair with Critical Missile

Bad augment synergies and pairings to avoid

Avoid

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.

What Not to Pair with Critical Missile

Bad augment synergies and pairings to avoid

Augments

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.