Hextech Soul ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Hextech Soul: Gain Hextech Soul effects, triggering lightning chains on spell and auto attack hits, dealing additional damage and slowing. A T1 choice for mixed damage champions.

"Hextech Dragon Soul: Core effect: Your abilities and basic attacks that hit enemies trigger a lightning chain that can bounce to up to 3 nearby enemies Base damage: Lightning chain deals 40-160 magic damage (scales with level) Scaling: Lightning chain damage receives 30% Attack Damage and 30% AP scaling Slow effect: Enemies hit by the lightning chain are slowed by 20% for 1 second Cooldown: Each target can only be hit by the lightning chain once every 2 seconds Bounce range: Lightning chain has a 500 unit bounce range

All basic attacks (including enhanced attacks) All active ability damage (AD and AP abilities) Equipment ability damage (like Luden's Tempest, Iceborn Gauntlet) Pet basic attacks and ability damage

Each tick of damage over time skills True damage skills Healing/shield effects Tower/minion attacks Enemy champion suicide or killed by allies

Hextech Dragon Soul: Lightning chain priority: prioritizes lowest health enemy Effect triggers: lightning chain can trigger on-hit effects (like Blade of the Ruined King, Black Cleaver) Critical compatibility: lightning chain can trigger Sheen's ability critical effect Multi-hit triggers: multi-hit abilities hitting multiple targets trigger separate lightning chains Projectile damage reduction: 20% damage reduction per bounce

"Hextech Dragon Soul: High attack speed auto-attack champions (Vayne, Jinx, Kai'Sa) Multi-hit ability champions (Ziggs, Viktor, Brand) Hybrid champions (Ezreal, Jayce, Kennen) Summoner champions (Annie, Malzahar, Yorick)

Hextech Dragon Soul: Burst assassin (Zed, Talon, Akali) Pure tank (Alistar, Leona, Braum) High CD champions (Tryndamere, Volibear, Ornn) DOT mage (Teemo, Cassiopeia, Singed)

Hextech Dragon Soul: Prioritize attack speed and AD: higher attack speed increases lightning chain frequency Use lightning chain to clear waves: bounces to multiple minions for fast clear Prioritize front liners in team fights: chain will bounce to enemy carries Build items like Blade of the Ruined King for enhanced chain damage Use slow effects to lock down enemies

Hextech Soul + Infernal Conduit: Hextech Soul's attack speed and ability haste synergize with Infernal Conduit's burn on ability hits, creating sustained damage that stacks infinitely. The Hextech slow helps keep enemies in range for repeated burn applications while the attack speed enables more frequent triggering of both effects during extended ARAM teamfights. Hextech Soul + Deft: Hextech Soul provides attack speed and ability haste on-hit, which Deft's 60% bonus attack speed directly amplifies. The combined attack speed creates rapid on-hit triggers for Hextech Soul's lightning strikes, maximizing damage output in the narrow ARAM lane where enemies cluster together. Hextech Soul + Typhoon: Hextech Soul grants attack speed and ability haste on-hit, while Typhoon launches Firecrackers on basic attacks that apply on-hit effects. The attack speed from Hextech Soul increases Typhoon's Firecracker frequency, spreading lightning strikes to nearby enemies during chaotic teamfights. Hextech Soul + Recursion: Hextech Soul provides ability haste on-hit, and Recursion's 60 ability haste dramatically reduces cooldowns for more frequent ability casts. This creates a feedback loop where abilities trigger Hextech lightning, basic attacks refresh ability cooldowns faster, and sustained damage output increases significantly.

Avoid Hextech Soul + Infernal Soul: Hextech Soul grants a Dragon Soul, giving a different one if you already have it. Infernal Soul does the same thing. Taking both wastes an augment slot because the second one simply gives a random different Dragon Soul instead of stacking effects, offering no synergy or meaningful upgrade. Avoid Hextech Soul + Mountain Soul: Mountain Soul provides a Dragon Soul with the same fallback mechanic as Hextech Soul. Picking both is redundant and inefficient since the second augment just grants a random alternative Dragon Soul rather than combining their powerful team-wide effects. Avoid Hextech Soul + Ocean Soul: Ocean Soul shares the identical fallback mechanic with Hextech Soul. Taking both results in one augment essentially being wasted on a random Dragon Soul replacement instead of gaining complementary power, making this a low-value pairing. Avoid Hextech Soul + Omni Soul: Omni Soul grants 3 random Dragon Souls, which can include Hextech Soul. Taking Hextech Soul first means Omni Soul may roll redundant souls or provide less value than expected, creating an inefficient overlap where one augment diminishes the other's potential.

Electrocute: Don't give it to pure AP mages, as the AD scaling on the lightning chain is very poor compared to AP runes. Don't ignore the lightning chain's bouncing effect many players only focus on the primary target and forget it can hit backline enemies. Don't build too much critical strike the lightning chain doesn't benefit from critical chance, stack Attack Damage and critical damage. Don't forget that lightning chain can proc on-hit effects items like Blade of the Ruined King and Black Cleaver significantly increase overall damage. Watch cooldown duration each target can only be hit once every 2 seconds, don't focus a single target.