Grandma's Chili Oil ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Grandma's Chili Sauce: All damage applies 'Chili Burn' dealing true damage that stacks infinitely, making it increasingly painful, especially against tanks, a T0 choice for damage-over-time champions.

Grandma's Chili Oil: Core effect: All damage dealt applies 1 stack of "Chili Burn" to enemies for 5 seconds. Base damage: Each stack deals 5-20 true damage per second (scales with level). Stacking rule: Burns can stack infinitely, with independent duration per stack. Refresh mechanic: Reapplying refreshes the duration of that stack. Bonus scaling: +2 damage per stack per 100 AP. Spread on death: If a burning enemy dies, the burn spreads to all enemies within 200 range.

Grandma's Chili Oil: All basic attacks (including empowered attacks) All active skill damage (AD, AP, true damage) Each tick of damage over time skills Equipment skill damage (such as Luden's, Morellonomicon, Ice Gauntlet) All damage dealt by pets Damage dealt to minions, monsters, epic monsters

Grandma's Chili Oil: Healing/Shields, Tower/minion attacks, Damage from allies to enemy, Reflect damage (Thornmail), Summoner spell damage (Ignite, Smite)

Grandma's Chili: True Damage: Burning deals true damage, ignoring all armor and magic resist Infinite Stacking: No stacking limit, can accumulate hundreds of stacks late game Spread Inheritance: Spread burning inherits all stacks and duration from original target Multi-Stack: Each tick of multi-hit damage adds 1 stack AP Scaling: AP increases base damage per stack, with exponential scaling after stacking

Grandma's Chili Oil: Sustained damage champions (like Brand, Lillia, Teemo, Anivia) Multi-hit skill champions (like Ziggs, Viktor, Kennen) High attack speed auto-attack champions (like Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Summoner champions (like Annie, Malzahar, Yorick)

Pure burst assassins (like Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure tank champions (like Alistar, Leona, Braum) Heroes with extremely long skill cooldowns (like Tryndamere, Volibear, Ornn) Utility champions with extremely low damage (like Bard, Tahm Kench)

Grandma's Chili Oil: Prioritize AP and ability haste: AP increases burn damage, ability haste increases stack frequency. Try to focus the same target: continuously stacking burn increases damage. Use spread effect to clear waves: killing burning minions spreads to all surrounding minions. Focus on frontline in teamfights: burn damage against tanks is much higher than burst, quickly melting them. Don't switch targets carelessly: switching wastes accumulated burn stacks.

Grandma's Chili Oil + Infernal Conduit: Infernal Conduit applies a Burn on every ability hit, which directly triggers Grandma's Chili Oil's chili canister drop and healing pool creation. This combination generates multiple pools in rapid succession during teamfights, creating overlapping zones of healing for allies and damage zones for enemies, dramatically increasing zone control and sustain in the narrow ARAM lane. Grandma's Chili Oil + Slow Cooker: Slow Cooker surrounds you in flames that apply Burn every second to nearby enemies, triggering Grandma's Chili Oil's canister drops continuously. This creates a self-sustaining cycle where standing near enemies generates healing pools beneath you, providing massive sustained healing while dealing persistent area damage in extended teamfights. Grandma's Chili Oil + Firebrand: Firebrand applies an infinite-stacking Burn on basic attacks, triggering Grandma's Chili Oil's canister drops on each hit. Attack-speed champions can rapidly generate multiple healing pools across the lane, creating widespread healing zones for allies while enemies must navigate through overlapping damage areas, excelling in prolonged ARAM skirmishes. Grandma's Chili Oil + Tormentor: Tormentor inflicts a Burn on immobilizing or grounding enemies, triggering Grandma's Chili Oil's canister drops on crowd control hits. Champions with stuns, roots, or knockdowns can generate healing pools at the exact location where enemies are disabled, forcing them to take pool damage while unable to escape, combining control with zone damage. Grandma's Chili Oil + Buff Buddies: Buff Buddies grants permanent Crest of Cinders, which empowers basic attacks to inflict a Burn on enemies. This passive Burn continuously triggers Grandma's Chili Oil's canister drops on every auto-attack, allowing sustained pool generation throughout fights without relying on ability cooldowns, ideal for attack-speed builds in constant ARAM combat.

Avoid Grandma's Chili Oil + Vampirism: Avoid this pairing because Vampirism sets your health regeneration to 0 and prevents ally healing, which directly conflicts with Grandma's Chili Oil's primary benefit of creating healing pools for you and your allies. The chili canister healing becomes completely wasted on yourself, removing half the augment's value. Avoid Grandma's Chili Oil + Slow and Steady: Avoid this pairing because Slow and Steady removes all attack speed bonuses, which severely limits how frequently you can trigger Grandma's Chili Oil's burn and canister effect. The 3-second cooldown per target means fewer attacks directly translates to fewer chili pools created during fights. Avoid Grandma's Chili Oil + Back to Basics: Avoid this pairing because Back to Basics permanently seals your ultimate ability, which is a significant power loss for most champions. Grandma's Chili Oil's burn and healing pool do not compensate for losing an entire ability slot, making this a net negative trade-off in most scenarios. Avoid Grandma's Chili Oil + Glass Cannon: Avoid this pairing because Glass Cannon caps your health at 70% maximum, making the healing from Grandma's Chili Oil pools frequently overheal and waste value. The chili pool healing cannot extend beyond the threshold, reducing the augment's survivability contribution significantly.

Grandma's Chili: Don't take on pure burst assassins: Assassins burst and leave, unable to stack enough burn layers. Don't ignore burn spread: Use spread to quickly clear waves and teamfight. Don't build too much burst damage: Burst items have limited impact on sustained burn damage build AP and ability haste instead. Don't switch targets easily: Continuous attacks on the same target maximize burn stacks. Watch burn duration: Each layer lasts 5 seconds without refresh, stacks will disappear. Don't force split-push in losing lanes: Despite strong sustained damage, you'll still die when ganked stick with your team.