Upgrade Sheen ARAM Mayhem Augment Guide

Upgrade: Sheen: Enhance your Sheen's effect with higher auto attack damage and additional movement speed. A tool for ability-based marksmen and warriors.

"Upgrade: Sheen: Core effect: Upon selection, upgrade the Sheen effect of your Sheen/Trinity Force/Lich Bane, or gain a base Sheen if you don't own one Damage increase: Sheen's basic attack damage increased by 100%, from 100% base AD to 200% base AD Speed bonus: Triggering Sheen effect grants 30% movement speed for 1.5 seconds Cooldown: Sheen's cooldown reduced from 1.5 to 1 second Stacking: Can stack with other basic attack damage bonuses additively Limit: Only affects Sheen/Trinity Force/Lich Bane, cannot upgrade other items

Next basic attack after casting an active ability Enhanced attacks (like Draven Q, Gangplank Q) Next basic attack after equipment active ability

Basic attacks without casting a spell Minion attacks Tower and minion attacks True damage attacks

Upgraded: Sheen: Movement speed stacking: multiple Sheen procs refresh duration Damage priority: upgraded Sheen damage calculates after all other on-hit effects Skill synergy: low CD skills can frequently proc Sheen Lich Bane bonus: if upgrading Lich Bane, AP bonus also increases by 100% Trinity Force bonus: if upgrading Trinity Force, all other stat bonuses increase by 50%

"Upgrade: Sheen: Ability-based marksmen (Ezreal, Kai'Sa, Jayce) Ability-based fighters (Irelia, Camille, Jax) Assassins (Zed, Talon, Yasuo) Mages reliant on Sheen (Ahri, Annie, Twisted Fate)

Ascension: Spellblade: Basic attack ADC (Vayne, Draven, Jinx) Pure tank (Alistar, Leona, Ornn) Pure support (Soraka, Karma, Nami) High CD champions

Ritual: Sheen: Get Sheen before taking this rune for max benefit Use short CD spells to frequently proc Sheen Use movement speed to kite and chase Build Trinity Force or Lich Bane for enhanced Sheen effect Follow spells with auto attacks: maximize damage output

Upgrade Sheen + Deft + Mystic Punch: Upgrade Sheen empowers Spellblade items to deal 4% max health damage and heal for 3.5% max health on proc. Deft grants 60% attack speed for more frequent Spellblade triggers, while Mystic Punch reduces ability cooldowns by 1.25 seconds per basic attack, enabling rapid ability casts to maximize Spellblade activation cycles in extended ARAM teamfights. Upgrade Sheen + Ethereal Weapon + Apex Inventor: Ethereal Weapon makes abilities apply on-hit effects, triggering Spellblade procs from ability damage instead of only basic attacks. Apex Inventor provides 100 item haste for 50% item CDR, dramatically reducing Sheen-based item cooldowns. Together these enable Spellblade triggers from both abilities and frequent item activations. Upgrade Sheen + Twice Thrice + Deft: Twice Thrice makes every third basic attack apply on-hit effects at 150% effectiveness, amplifying the upgraded Spellblade damage and healing. Combined with Deft's 60% attack speed, this creates a powerful rhythm where enhanced Spellblade procs fire more frequently and hit harder during sustained ARAM frontline combat. Upgrade Sheen + Recursion + Deft: Recursion grants 60 ability haste, enabling more frequent ability casts to trigger Spellblade procs between basic attacks. The reduced ability cooldowns pair with Deft's attack speed to create a tight rotation of abilities and auto-attacks, maximizing the upgraded Spellblade's 4% max health damage and 3.5% max health healing.

Avoid Upgrade Sheen + ADAPt: Upgrade Sheen empowers Spellblade items which scale with attack damage, but ADAPt converts all bonus attack damage into ability power. This fundamentally removes the scaling that makes Spellblade effective, wasting both the augment's bonus damage and its maximum health-based healing which benefits from AD ratios. Avoid Upgrade Sheen + Slow and Steady: Slow and Steady sets base attack speed to a static value and prevents all attack speed bonuses from functioning. Spellblade requires basic attacks to trigger, and being locked at 0.625 attack rate severely limits how often you can proc the empowered effect, making the upgrade significantly less valuable. Avoid Upgrade Sheen + Back to Basics: Back to Basics seals your ultimate ability permanently, which is a massive trade-off. While it grants ability haste and damage, Spellblade builds typically want full kit access for weaving abilities between auto-attacks, and losing an ultimate severely limits playmaking potential for a playstyle that doesn't maximize Spellblade triggers. Avoid Upgrade Sheen + Glass Cannon: Glass Cannon caps your health at 70% of maximum and prevents any healing from exceeding this threshold. Upgrade Sheen heals you for 3.5% of maximum health on Spellblade procs, but this healing becomes partially or completely wasted when you are near or at the health cap.

Upgrade: Sheen: Don't force take without Sheen items, as it wastes a rune slot. Don't give it to pure auto-attack champions, as the benefit is minimal compared to Attack Speed runes. Don't ignore the movement speed bonus many players only focus on damage and forget Sheen grants movement speed. Don't waste Sheen's effect always follow up abilities with auto-attacks. Watch cooldown duration Sheen has a 1-second cooldown, don't spam abilities to waste the effect.