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26.9Core items
- Total Price
- 2,750
- Price
- 450
+100 Ability Power +600 Mana +10 Ability Haste Echo Damaging Abilities fire 6 Echoes that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Echoes fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
- Total Price
- 1,100
- Price
- 800
+12 Magic Penetration +45 Move Speed
- Total Price
- 2,800
- Price
- 800
+90 Ability Power +15 Magic Penetration +6% Move Speed Stormraider Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum Health within 2.5s applies Squall to them. Squall After 2 seconds, deal magic damage. If the target dies before Squall triggers, it damages nearby enemies.
- Total Price
- 2,750
- Price
- 450
+100 Ability Power +600 Mana +10 Ability Haste Echo Damaging Abilities fire 6 Echoes that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Echoes fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
- Total Price
- 1,100
- Price
- 800
+12 Magic Penetration +45 Move Speed
- Total Price
- 3,200
- Price
- 900
+110 Ability Power +15 Magic Penetration Cinderbloom Magic and true damage Critically Strikes enemies below +40% Health , dealing 20% increased damage.
- Total Price
- 2,750
- Price
- 450
+100 Ability Power +600 Mana +10 Ability Haste Echo Damaging Abilities fire 6 Echoes that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Echoes fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
- Total Price
- 2,800
- Price
- 800
+90 Ability Power +15 Magic Penetration +6% Move Speed Stormraider Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum Health within 2.5s applies Squall to them. Squall After 2 seconds, deal magic damage. If the target dies before Squall triggers, it damages nearby enemies.
- Total Price
- 1,100
- Price
- 800
+12 Magic Penetration +45 Move Speed
Situational itemstop 12
- Total Price
- 1,100
- Price
- 800
+12 Magic Penetration +45 Move Speed
50.10%- Total Price
- 2,750
- Price
- 450
+100 Ability Power +600 Mana +10 Ability Haste Echo Damaging Abilities fire 6 Echoes that deal bonus magic damage to the target and nearby enemies. Remaining Echoes fire on the primary target, dealing 20% damage.
50.17%- Total Price
- 3,200
- Price
- 900
+110 Ability Power +15 Magic Penetration Cinderbloom Magic and true damage Critically Strikes enemies below +40% Health , dealing 20% increased damage.
49.93%- Total Price
- 2,800
- Price
- 800
+90 Ability Power +15 Magic Penetration +6% Move Speed Stormraider Dealing 25% of a champion's maximum Health within 2.5s applies Squall to them. Squall After 2 seconds, deal magic damage. If the target dies before Squall triggers, it damages nearby enemies.
50.49%- Total Price
- 3,500
- Price
- 1,100
+130 Ability Power Magical Opus: Increases your total Ability Power by 30%.
53.24%- Total Price
- 3,000
- Price
- 1,050
+95 Ability Power +40% Magic Penetration
48.09%- Total Price
- 3,250
- Price
- 450
+105 Ability Power +50 Armor Time Stop: Enter Stasis for 2.5 seconds.
49.43%- Total Price
- 2,700
- Price
- 650
+90 Ability Power +600 Mana +15 Ability Haste Scorn Gain 20 Ultimate Ability Haste. Hatefog Damaging a champion with your Ultimate burns the ground beneath them for 3s, dealing magic damage per second and reducing their Magic Resist.
47.45%- Total Price
- 3,000
- Price
- 800
+60 Ability Power +300 Health Torment: Damaging Abilities burn enemies for 2% max Health magic damage per second for 3 seconds. Suffering: For each second in combat with enemy champions, deal 2% bonus damage, up to 6%.
45.20%- Total Price
- 2,800
- Price
- 700
+80 Ability Power +600 Mana +20 Ability Haste Baleful Blaze: Damaging Abilities deals bonus magic damage for 3 seconds. Blackfire: For each enemy champion, epic and large monster affected by your Baleful Blaze: , gain 4% Ability Power.
49.51%- Total Price
- 3,000
- Price
- 200
+105 Ability Power +40 Magic Resist Annul Grants a Spell Shield that blocks the next enemy Ability.
53.65%- Total Price
- 2,850
- Price
- 400
+75 Ability Power +350 Health +15 Ability Haste Grievous Wounds: Dealing magic damage to champions applies 40% Wounds for 3 seconds.
45.53%Starting items
- Total Price
- 150
- Price
- 150
Active (2 charges) Restores +100 Health over 12 seconds. Refills upon visiting the shop.
50.96%- Total Price
- 1,200
- Price
- 250
+40 Ability Power +300 Mana +10 Ability Haste Enlighten Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
50.96%- Total Price
- 1,200
- Price
- 250
+40 Ability Power +300 Mana +10 Ability Haste Enlighten Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
50.06%- Total Price
- 1,100
- Price
- 300
+45 Ability Power Revved Damaging a champion deals bonus magic damage.
47.77%Best ARAM Mayhem Augments
Hextech recommendations / Combo value
| Name | Rarity | Tier | Pick Rate | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scoring a champion takedown generates a stack, stacking infinitely. For each stack, gain 8 ability haste and 1% bonus movement speed , and reduce your size by 4%. Lose 65% of stacks on death. Size reduction is capped at 80% (20 stacks). View augment details | Gold | T1 | 56.94% | 7.14% | 1,138 |
Gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 300% AP and lasts until destroyed. Shield is replenished upon respawn. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 56.84% | 6.28% | 1,001 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 6 bonus Attack Damage or 10 Ability Power ( Adaptive ), stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). Lose 50% of stacks on death. View augment details | Silver | T1 | 55.85% | 7.77% | 1,239 |
Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP . View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 55.53% | 14.58% | 2,325 |
Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 54.96% | 7.34% | 1,170 |
Automatically cast a modified version of Ahri's Fox-Fire , gaining 25% bonus movement speed that decays over 2 seconds and conjuring 3 flames that orbit you clockwise for up to 2. 5 seconds at a radius of 150 units. The flames will fly toward the nearest visible enemy champion within 550 units, dealing 35 – 160 (based on level) (+ 25% bonus AD (+ 25% AP) adaptive damage , reduced to [10. 5 – 48 (based on level) (+ 7. 5 % bonus AD (+ 7. 5 % AP) ] for enemies hit by subsequent flames from the same cast (7 second cooldown). View augment details | Silver | T1 | 54.16% | 5.65% | 901 |
Damaging an enemy champion with an ability summons a Void Scar at the location they were damaged for 6 seconds (0. 75 -second cooldown per target). If another Void Scar is summoned within 1250 units, through the same condition, both Void Scars are consumed to create a rift to the void between them that converges over 0. 6 seconds and has a width of 250 units. Enemies within the rift are dealt 100 – 450 (based on level) (+ 5. 5 per 1 Lethality) (+ 5. 5 per 1 flat magic penetration) magic damage and slowed by 99% decaying over 1 second. View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 54.00% | 10.20% | 1,626 |
You summon a Poro alongside yourself every 3. 5 seconds, up to 5 at a time. Damaging an enemy champion with a basic attack or ability, excluding those which apply damage over time , commands all of your Poros to launch themselves at the target, each dealing true damage equal to 3% of the target's maximum health . If triggered while at the maximum number of summoned Poros , the first Poro to hit the target also knocks them up for 0. 5 seconds. This augment is only offered to up to 1 player on each team for a given game. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 53.35% | 8.24% | 1,314 |
Become tiny, reducing your size by 75% and granting you 20% bonus movement speed . Additionally, deal 10% / 15% / 25% / 30% (based on target's size) bonus damage against enemy champions with greater size than you. View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 53.18% | 5.61% | 895 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion summons a comet above them that lands at their current location after 1 second, dealing 50 – 150 (based on level) (+ 40% AP) (+ 4% of your maximum health) magic damage to enemies within the area (6 second cooldown per target per cast instance ). View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 52.84% | 5.52% | 880 |
Gain the Dark Harvest and First Strike keystone runes. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 52.57% | 9.14% | 1,457 |
Deal 10% increased damage to enemies below 30% of their maximum health . Scoring a champion takedown resets the cooldown of all your basic abilities. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 52.34% | 14.86% | 2,369 |
Your next basic attack or ability hit, or Burn effect, against an enemy champion inflicts them with a Burn that deals [ 100 – 350 (based on level) magic damage over 3 seconds,] as well as releases a canister of chili from the target that lands to a location near them after 0. 75 seconds (3 second cooldown). Upon landing, the canister shatters to create a pool of Chili Oil at the impact area with a radius of 175 units, lasting for 5 seconds. The pool heals you and allied champions within for 60 – 150 (based on level) upon entering and each second of the pool's lifetime thereafter. While enemies are within the pool, they are dealt 100 magic damage every second. For each unique Burn effect source that you have, up to 10, increase the pool's size by 40 units and its damage per tick by 60 magic damage . The healing per tick is also increased by 50 for each unique Burn effect source that the unit being healed has, up to 10. Healing granted by pools counts as self-healing. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 51.75% | 10.58% | 1,687 |
Your abilities' mana costs are doubled, but you also gain 10% (+ 0. 5 % per 100 maximum mana) increased damage as well as self and outgoing healing and shielding . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 51.73% | 5.61% | 895 |
Gain a Needlessly Large Rod . Quest: Obtain Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass . Reward: Upon completing your Quest , convert the items you obtained for the quest into Wooglet's Witchcap . View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 51.70% | 6.65% | 1,060 |
Gain Veigar's Phenomenal Evil Power . Phenomenal Evil Power: Generate a permanent stack of Phenomenal Evil each time you damage an enemy champion with ability damage . This effect cannot trigger more than once every second globally and once every 3 seconds from the same cast instance . For each stack, gain 1 ability power . If this is not your first augment, start with 40 Phenomenal Evil stacks, granting you 40 ability power . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 51.67% | 16.68% | 2,659 |
Gain 15 ability power and 8 bonus magic resistance for each headwear item or hat you have in your inventory, reduced to 8 ability power and 4 bonus magic resistance for hats obtained from Cappa Juice and Stat Bonus . Eligible Items: Abyssal Mask , Bloodletter's Curse , Cosmic Drive , Diadem of Songs , Edge of Night , Experimental Hexplate , Fimbulwinter , Haunting Guise , Hollow Radiance , Hubris , Jak'Sho, The Protean , Knight's Vow , Liandry's Torment , Rabadon's Deathcap , Riftmaker , Shurelya's Battlesong , Spectre's Cowl , Whispering Circlet , Wooglet's Witchcap View augment details | Silver | T1 | 51.26% | 6.49% | 1,034 |
Your ability hits against champions apply a Burn for 3 seconds that deals [ 2 – 20 (based on level) (+ 4. 6 % bonus AD) (+ 2% AP) bonus magic damage per second] (1 second cooldown per cast instance ). This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application. Additionally, all of your Burn effects reduce the cooldowns of all your basic abilities by 0. 08 seconds for each tick of damage they deal to a target. View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 51.23% | 5.08% | 810 |
Convert all of your bonus attack damage into ability power at a rate of 1 ability power per 0. 6 bonus attack damage . Additionally, increase your ability power by 15% . View augment details | Silver | T1 | 51.22% | 9.25% | 1,474 |
Damaging abilities against enemy champions launch 1 (+ 1 per 33. 33 % critical strike chance) Firecrackers at the target that each deal 10 – 30 (based on level) (+ 7% bonus AD) (+ 7% AP) magic damage (5 second cooldown). Additionally, gain 15% critical strike chance . View augment details | Silver | T1 | 51.13% | 5.02% | 800 |
Grants 60 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 50.99% | 5.36% | 855 |
Gain the Arcane Comet and Summon Aery keystone runes. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 50.64% | 6.91% | 1,102 |
Dealing damage to an enemy champion with an ability fires 3 Firecrackers at them that each deal true damage equal to 0. 3 3 % of the target's maximum health , increased to up to 1% based on distance travelled (maximum damage reached at 1000 units). This effect can only trigger once every 6 seconds from the same cast. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 50.49% | 19.36% | 3,086 |
Grants 20 – 80 (based on level) ability power . View augment details | Silver | T1 | 50.07% | 13.04% | 2,079 |
Hitting an enemy champion with an ability generates a stack of Popoff for 6 seconds, stacking up to 6 times. For each stack, your basic abilities' cooldowns progress 2. 5 % faster. At maximum Popoff stacks, this value is doubled, for a total of a 30% faster progression time. View augment details | Silver | T1 | 49.79% | 8.84% | 1,410 |
Your abilities can now critically strike for (145% + bonus critical damage ) damage. Additionally, gain 25% (+ 4. 5 % per 100 AP) critical strike chance . If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal). View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 49.44% | 15.25% | 2,431 |
Grants 18% armor penetration and magic penetration . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 49.26% | 11.04% | 1,760 |
【中娅沙漏】的冷却时间降低至45秒。你现在可以在【中娅沙漏】、【探索者的护臂】或【沃格勒特的巫师帽】凝滞状态持续期间移动。 View augment details | Silver | T1 | 48.69% | 5.51% | 879 |
Whenever you damage an enemy champion with an ability, gain 200 bonus movement speed decaying over 0. 75 seconds. View augment details | Silver | T1 | 48.55% | 4.75% | 758 |
Upon casting your ultimate ability, you apply Zed's Death Mark to all enemy champions (8 second cooldown). The mark stores 40% of all post-mitigation damage you deal to the affected target, detonating after 5 seconds to deal true damage equal to the damage stored against them. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 47.01% | 6.08% | 970 |
Gain 60 ability haste , increased by 3 each time you score a champion takedown . View augment details | Prismatic | T2 | 58.17% | 2.53% | 404 |
Gain 3 Stat Anvils , with a higher chance of obtaining Gold and Prismatic tier anvils. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 56.70% | 4.07% | 649 |
You can no longer be healed by allies and your health regeneration is set to 0 . Gain 25% omnivamp . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 56.62% | 3.60% | 574 |
Grants the Ocean Dragon Soul , which has a modified base heal value of 100, or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 55.79% | 2.11% | 337 |
Gain two completely random augments, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Prismatic | T2 | 54.66% | 1.95% | 311 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 20 bonus health , stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). View augment details | Gold | T2 | 54.49% | 3.85% | 613 |
Grants bonus health equal to 50% maximum mana . View augment details | Silver | T2 | 53.93% | 3.59% | 573 |
Gain 2 Stat Anvils . View augment details | Silver | T2 | 53.83% | 2.30% | 366 |
Your champion's third basic ability (E) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 53.78% | 3.90% | 621 |
Gain 1750 upon acquiring this augment. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 53.33% | 3.01% | 480 |
Red envelopes will now randomly appear around you every 25 – 15 (based on level) seconds. You can pick up these envelopes by moving over them, granting you between 8 – 15 (based on level) and 22 – 46 (based on level) gold , and 100 bonus movement speed for 3 seconds. Additionally, whenever you pick an envelope, you gain one of the following stats by random: 5 bonus attack damage 5 ability power 5 ability haste 5 bonus armor 5 bonus magic resistance 50 bonus health 10% bonus attack speed 5 bonus movement speed 5 Lethality 5 magic penetration View augment details | Gold | T2 | 53.31% | 3.22% | 514 |
Gain one random Gold augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 53.27% | 3.74% | 597 |
Critical strikes against enemy champions launch 1 (+ 1 per 33. 33 % critical strike chance) Firecrackers at the target that each deal 20 – 100 (based on level) magic damage (4 second cooldown). Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 52.79% | 3.93% | 627 |
Your Mark is empowered to hail a snowstorm at the location where the target was hit for 2 seconds, granting sight of the area and dealing [ 200 (+ 200% bonus AD) (+ 120% AP) magic damage ] to enemies within over the duration, as well as slowing them by 50% (+ 6% per 100 AP) . Additionally, your Mark's cooldown is reduced equivalent to 50 ability haste. If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark . If you also did not equip Flash , then you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Mark . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 51.60% | 1.96% | 312 |
Hitting an enemy champion with a basic ability while located at least 700 units away from them at the time of the hit reduces its current cooldown by 80% of its total cooldown, modified to 65% for damage over time abilities. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 51.08% | 2.33% | 372 |
Grants the Infernal Dragon Soul , or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 50.94% | 2.01% | 320 |
Your champion's first basic ability (Q) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 49.82% | 3.41% | 544 |
Scoring a champion takedown causes the area around the slain champion to explode in a 500 unit radius, dealing adaptive damage to enemies within equal to 15% of their current health and leaving behind a zone for 1. 5 seconds that slows enemies within by 60%. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 49.72% | 3.32% | 529 |
Casting an ability heals you for 5 – 60 (based on level) (+ 1% maximum health) . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 47.86% | 2.35% | 374 |
Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 75% AP . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 47.73% | 2.35% | 375 |
Grants the Crest of Cinders and Crest of Insight buffs permanently. Crest of Cinders: Empowers your basic attacks to slow the target by ( 10% / 15% / 25% / 5% / 7. 5 % / 12. 5 %) (based on level) for 3 seconds and inflict them with a burn for 2 seconds, which deals 8 – 76 (based on level) total true damage over 3 instances over the duration. Each instance deals 2. 67 – 25. 33 (based on level) true damage , with the first instance being applied on-hit and the second and third instances dealt each second over the burn's duration. Subsequent attacks against a burning target will only refresh its duration. While out-of-combat with enemy champions and turrets , you regenerate [ 0. 5 % / 1% / 3% / 9% (based on level) maximum health every 5 seconds.] This effect counts as a Burn source. Crest of Insight: Grants 10 ability haste . If your champion uses mana , restores [ 5. 5 % of maximum mana every 5 seconds;] if your champion uses energy , instead restores [ 5. 5 % of maximum energy every 5 seconds.] View augment details | Silver | T2 | 47.57% | 2.45% | 391 |
Damage dealt by items and damage over time effects can now critically strike for (145% + bonus critical damage ) damage (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . If both Jeweled Gauntlet and Vulnerability are equipped, only rolls the critical strike chance of the augment that has the higher critical damage (or either if equal). View augment details | Gold | T2 | 47.20% | 2.02% | 322 |
Your Mark is empowered to instead throw a pinball, which deals 100 – 500 (based on level) bonus true damage and ricochets off of terrain that it collides with. Each time the pinball ricochets, its remaining travel distance is reset, it increases in radius by 25%, deals 20% increased damage, and reduces Mark's remaining cooldown by 30% of its total. The pinball can ricochet up to 4 times, for a maximum radius increase of 100% and a damage increase of 80%. Additionally, your Mark's cooldown is reduced equivalent to 50 ability haste. If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark . If you also did not equip Flash , then you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Mark . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 46.67% | 1.69% | 270 |
Your Recall is now functional and is upgraded to Empowered Recall . Completing an Empowered Recall channel enables the shop . Additionally, the spawn platform will now provide healing and resource restoration for you. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 44.90% | 1.84% | 294 |
Upon dropping below 35% of your maximum health , gain a shield for 65% of your maximum health , 150% bonus movement speed , and reduced size (75 second cooldown). These effects all decay over 5. 5 seconds. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 59.56% | 0.85% | 136 |
Gain 50 bonus movement speed and 40% slow resist . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 58.49% | 1.00% | 159 |
Gain 15% omnivamp . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 57.73% | 0.61% | 97 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion heals you for 30 – 250 (based on level) (+ 1. 5 % maximum health) (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). View augment details | Silver | T3 | 57.14% | 0.61% | 98 |
Gain 4 Stat Anvils , with a higher chance of obtaining Gold and Prismatic tier anvils. Additionally, on the next round of augment selection, you gain an additional reroll per augment slot. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 56.10% | 1.29% | 205 |
Gain 100% bonus movement speed . This bonus is lost for 6 seconds after taking damage from champions. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 55.24% | 1.56% | 248 |
Grants bonus movement speed equal to 70% ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 54.84% | 1.36% | 217 |
Grants a spell shield that blocks the next hostile ability (30 second cooldown, timer does not restart from champion damage taken). View augment details | Silver | T3 | 54.19% | 0.97% | 155 |
Gain 35% (+ 5% per 100 AP) bonus attack speed and 25% (+ 5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 53.73% | 0.84% | 134 |
周期性地出现一个小蛋糕快速飞越整个大桥。接住小蛋糕会获得50 %i:goldCoins%金币。小蛋糕还会为你和附近的友军回复? + ?已损失生命值,但你们会被施加持续0.5秒的?减速。你的小蛋糕每治疗1000生命值,就会提供150 %i:goldCoins%金币。获得治疗的总和:?已赚取的金币:? View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 53.72% | 0.76% | 121 |
Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions consume 2. 5 % of your maximum mana to deal bonus magic damage equal to 4. 5 % of your maximum mana . This damage can critically strike for (100% + 30% ) bonus damage. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 51.88% | 0.83% | 133 |
Heal for 0. 2 – 1. 2 (based on level) (+ 0. 01 % maximum health) per 10 units travelled. View augment details | Gold | T3 | 51.75% | 0.72% | 114 |
Gain Leona's Sunlight . Sunlight: Your damaging abilities mark enemies, causing them to take 40 – 200 (based on level) bonus magic damage from your ally's next basic attack or ability hit against them (0. 75 -second cooldown per target). View augment details | Gold | T3 | 50.81% | 0.78% | 124 |
Damaging basic attacks or abilities against enemy champions deal 50 – 150 (based on level) (+ 40% bonus AD) (+ 20% AP) bonus magic damage , and grant you 30 and 25% bonus movement speed for 1. 5 seconds (30 second cooldown per champion). View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 50.43% | 0.72% | 115 |
Upgrades your Mark into a massive snowball, empowering it with an increased size radius and the ability to pass through non-champions. The snowball additionally explodes upon impact of the target hit to deal 200 – 350 (based on level) (+ 100% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP) magic damage to all nearby enemies, knock them up for 0. 75 seconds, and slow them by 20% for 2 seconds. Additionally, your Mark's cooldown is reduced equivalent to 100 ability haste. If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark . If you also did not equip Flash , then you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Mark . Non-champions hit by the snowball are stunned for 1. 25 seconds. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 50.25% | 1.24% | 197 |
Your current augments transform into an equal number of completely random Prismatic ones. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 49.58% | 1.48% | 236 |
Your champion's second basic ability (W) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 49.40% | 1.04% | 166 |
Grants the Hextech Dragon Soul , or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 49.33% | 1.41% | 225 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion inflicts them with a Burn for 5 seconds, dealing magic damage equal to [ 0. 8 % of the target's maximum health per second] (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 49.25% | 0.84% | 134 |
Hitting an enemy champion with Mark casts a random harmful summoner spell on them, and also casts a random beneficial summoner spell on yourself. Using Dash casts the beneficial summoner spell on yourself again upon arrival. Additionally, your Mark's cooldown is reduced equivalent to 100 ability haste. Harmful summoner spells include Exhaust and Ignite , while beneficial ones consist of Barrier , Clarity , Cleanse , Ghost , and Heal . If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark . If you also did not equip Flash , then you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Mark . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 48.90% | 1.42% | 227 |
Scoring a takedown against an enemy champion within 3 seconds of damaging them renders you invisible for 1. 5 seconds. Attacking or casting abilites ends the stealth immediately. View augment details | Gold | T3 | 48.60% | 0.67% | 107 |
Convert all of your bonus attack speed into ability haste at a rate of 0. 65 ability haste per 1% bonus attack speed . Additionally, your abilities' total cooldowns are reduced by 10%. View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.48% | 0.62% | 99 |
Grants 100 item haste , which is equivalent to 50% cooldown reduction for items. View augment details | Gold | T3 | 48.36% | 1.53% | 244 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants 10 bonus armor and bonus magic resistance for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times for a total of 100 bonus resistances, and refreshing on subsequent triggers (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.34% | 0.95% | 151 |
Your slowing effects reduce the movement speed of targets by an additional 75 . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.06% | 1.29% | 206 |
You gain a health threshold equal to 70% maximum health which cannot be modified nor exceeded by any means. In return, you deal bonus true damage equal to 15% of all of the damage you deal pre-mitigation. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 47.62% | 1.05% | 168 |
Your abilities now have a health cost of 5% current health to cast them. In return, you gain ability power based on your missing health , up to 75 – 150 (based on level) at 70% missing health , 0% – 50% (based on missing health) bonus movement speed , and 0% – 20% (based on missing health) omnivamp . View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 47.37% | 1.19% | 190 |
Grants 50% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 46.83% | 1.29% | 205 |
Heal for 12% of the post-mitigation damage dealt by your critical strikes . Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 45.70% | 0.95% | 151 |
Basic attacks generate a stack, up to 4. The fourth stack consumes them all to quickly launch 4 Firecrackers at the target that each deal 11 – 80 (based on level) (+ 35% bonus AD) (+ 19% AP) bonus magic damage on-hit, for a total of 44 – 320 (based on level) (+ 140% bonus AD) (+ 76% AP) . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 45.51% | 1.05% | 167 |
Automatically cast Taric's Cosmic Radiance , calling down a protective star upon you that descends over 2. 5 seconds. Afterwards, you and all allied champions within 400 units become invulnerable for 2. 5 seconds (35 second cooldown). View augment details | Gold | T3 | 42.86% | 0.70% | 112 |
Casting your ultimate ability resets the cooldowns of all your basic abilities and grants you 300 basic ability haste for 15 seconds (20 second cooldown). Additionally, gain 30 ultimate haste. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 42.78% | 1.13% | 180 |
Basic attacks on-hit against enemy champions and minions grant 10 bonus movement speed , lasting for 5 seconds, refreshing on subsequent triggers, and stacking infinitely. Additionally, gain bonus attack speed equal to 10% total movement speed . View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 42.76% | 0.91% | 145 |
Your abilities apply on-hit effects (1 second cooldown per target). View augment details | Gold | T3 | 40.00% | 0.69% | 110 |
Casting your ultimate ability resets its cooldown once its effect starts or has elapsed (75 second cooldown, reset upon death). View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 38.86% | 1.44% | 229 |
Upon damaging an enemy while located at over 700 units away at the time of the hit, cast Ezreal's Trueshot Barrage in their direction. The barrage deals 100 – 350 (based on level) (+ 80% bonus AD) (+ 60% AP) magic damage to enemies it passes through (15 second cooldown). This augment is only offered to up to 1 player on each team for a given game. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 58.54% | 0.51% | 82 |
Grants 3 random Dragon Souls . View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 58.44% | 0.48% | 77 |
Upon acquiring this augment and each time you respawn, gain either 30% adaptive force , 20% bonus health , and 40% increased size or 70 ability haste , 40% bonus movement speed , and 40% reduced size. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 56.14% | 0.36% | 57 |
Replace a summoner spell with Poltergeist . Poltergeist: Casts both Barrier and Ghost on yourself, both lasting 5 seconds and with the former granting a shield for 110 – 440 (based on level) and the latter granting 30% bonus movement speed . View augment details | Silver | T4 | 52.86% | 0.44% | 70 |
Replace a summoner spell with Growth Spurt . Growth Spurt: Enlarge yourself, causing you to knock up enemies within 400 units for 1 second. For the next 7 seconds, you gain 300 (+ 20% maximum health) bonus health and 50% increased size. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 52.78% | 0.45% | 72 |
Each instance of damage dealt to an enemy reduces their armor and magic resistance by 1. 5 % for 4 seconds, stacking up to 20 times for a total of 30% resistances reduction. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 50.54% | 0.58% | 93 |
Your Flash now has 3 charges with a 2-second cooldown between casts (120 seconds recharge time for all 3 charges). If Flash is not equipped, you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Flash . View augment details | Gold | T4 | 50.54% | 0.58% | 93 |
Upon death, you explode to deal true damage equal to 20% of the target's maximum health to enemies within 500 units. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 50.00% | 0.38% | 60 |
Replace a summoner spell with Droppybara . Droppybara: Call upon a massive capybara to land down at the target location after 2. 5 seconds, dealing true damage equal to the 30% of the target's maximum health to enemies within a 650 radius. Deals 70% damage to minions. This augment is only offered to up to 1 player on each team for a given game. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 49.25% | 0.42% | 67 |
Automatically cast an improved version of Sivir's Boomerang Blade at the closest nearby enemy champion within 1250 units, dealing 40 – 200 (based on level) (+ 30% bonus AD) (+ 20% AP) adaptive damage to enemies hit (10 second cooldown). View augment details | Gold | T4 | 48.86% | 0.55% | 88 |
Basic attacks apply a Burn for 5 seconds that deals bonus magic damage equal to [ 0. 4 % of the target's maximum health per second.] This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 48.48% | 0.41% | 66 |
Scoring a champion takedown generates a stack, stacking infinitely. For each stack, increase your maximum health and size by 5%. Lose 65% of stacks on death. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 47.22% | 0.45% | 72 |
After using the Dash spell from Mark , you become invulnerable for 1. 5 seconds upon arrival. Additionally, your Mark's cooldown is reduced equivalent to 100 ability haste. If Mark is not equipped, the summoner spell in the slot not occupied by Flash is replaced with Mark . If you also did not equip Flash , then you will be prompted to replace one of your summoner spells with Mark . View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 47.22% | 0.45% | 72 |
Grants 35% bonus health , 15% adaptive force , and 50% increased size. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 47.06% | 0.43% | 68 |
你的敌人消失信号将发射一个飞弹至被信号标记的位置,这个飞弹会对敌人造成? + 10%已损失生命值的魔法伤害并治疗友军? + 10%已损失生命值。 View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 46.30% | 0.34% | 54 |
Gain Critical Defend Chance equal to 100% critical strike chance , up to 50%. Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . Critical Defend Chance: Grants you a chance to reduce an instance of damage taken by 20% (5 second cooldown per enemy spell cast instance ). View augment details | Silver | T4 | 46.24% | 0.58% | 93 |
Quest: Score 18 champion takedowns . Reward: Upon completing your Quest , you receive The Golden Spatula . If your inventory is full at the time of quest completion, the item will be granted as soon as a slot in the inventory is available. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 44.58% | 0.52% | 83 |
Your basic attacks and abilities execute enemy champions below 5% (+ 3. 5 % per 100 base AD) (+ 2% per 1000 bonus health) of their maximum health , which causes their corpse to be sent flying away in a line. Upon collision with an enemy champion or terrain, the target's corpse explodes to deal 150 – 500 (based on level) (+ 100% bonus armor) (+ 100% bonus magic resistance) magic damage to nearby enemies. Successful executions heal you for 100 – 300 (based on level) (+ 25% bonus health) . The execution may also be triggered by the explosion and goes through shields . View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 42.65% | 0.43% | 68 |
Casting your ultimate grants you invulnerability for 2 seconds (8 second cooldown). View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 42.31% | 0.33% | 52 |
Upon dropping below 35% of your maximum health , you knock back all enemies within a 500 radius by 750 units and slow them by 90% for 1. 5 seconds (25 second cooldown, resets upon death). View augment details | Silver | T4 | 41.18% | 0.43% | 68 |
Casting your ultimate ability grants you crowd control immunity for 3 seconds (8 second cooldown). View augment details | Silver | T4 | 40.00% | 0.47% | 75 |
Grants 1000% base health regeneration , increased to 2000% while below 25% maximum health . View augment details | Gold | T4 | 38.89% | 0.34% | 54 |
Syndra Skill Combos
Extracted from the skill order guide
If your augments favor crowd control, peel, anti-dive, or defensive resets: use R > Q > E > W.
Max Q first in most games because Syndra needs a reliable damage button before she can threaten the lane.
Syndra Counters
Counters and threats extracted from the matchup guide
Counters
5Syndra counters these champions in ARAM: Mayhem.
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5Syndra is countered by these champions in ARAM: Mayhem.
Read counter detailsSyndra Team Comp Highlights
Partner patterns extracted from the team comp guide
Hard-engage tanks: Malphite, Amumu, Leona, Nautilus
These champions force a clean starting point. Syndra is much stronger when the enemy is already locked in place or committed forward, because she can place spheres around the fight instead of fishing blindly from max range.
Pick supports and catch mages: Thresh, Blitzcrank, Morgana, Lux
Pick champions create the exact punish window Syndra loves: one enemy pulled, rooted, or snared in a lane where everyone can see the target. Syndra adds burst and follow-up control, turning a small catch into a kill or a forced retreat.
Protective enchanters: Lulu, Janna, Karma, Milio
Syndra’s damage is threatening, but she is vulnerable when divers cross the lane and force her to spend stun defensively. Enchanters give her the extra second she needs to kite, turn, and punish the diver rather than just retreat.
AD finishers and reset carries: Jinx, Samira, Kai’Sa, Pyke
Syndra often leaves enemies low, displaced, or too scared to walk forward. Reset carries and execution champions convert that pressure into a full fight win. They also punish opponents who itemize or position only against magic burst.
Zone-control allies: Anivia, Viktor, Zyra, Heimerdinger
Zone-control teammates make Syndra’s skillshots easier by shrinking the enemy’s movement options. Walls, turrets, plants, gravity zones, and persistent ground threats push enemies into predictable lanes where Syndra can line up stun or force them away from the wave.
Team functions Syndra needs most
Reliable first engage: Syndra can catch people, but she is better when someone else forces the first movement. A tank or pick support makes her stun and burst far more consistent.
Syndra ARAM Mayhem vs ARAM
Key mode differences extracted from the ARAM comparison guide
| Focus | Normal ARAM | ARAM: Mayhem | Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scatter the Weak Usage | Players often throw Scatter the Weak aggressively whenever a sphere lines up, as poke patterns rarely get punished during the downtime. | Using Scatter the Weak on cooldown invites divers to kill you; you must save it to stop the first real commit or die. | Treat Scatter the Weak as a survival tool first and a pick tool second when divers are alive. |
| Ultimate Timing | Syndra often holds Unleashed Power until a high-value carry is low enough to execute, rewarding patience and careful target selection. | Waiting too long is greedy; use Unleashed Power earlier to remove a diver or exposed carry before the fight collapses. | Cash in burst quickly when a real target appears instead of saving ultimate for a perfect execute. |
| Fight Tempo | Syndra wins by holding space, fishing with combos, and patiently waiting for enemies to misstep into her threat zone. | Fights start faster and damage spikes harder; you cannot play like every fight gives five seconds to arrange the perfect stun. | Make faster decisions with spheres and do not expect time to set up ideal stun angles. |
| Snowball Risk | Some players take Snowball for surprise range, finishing kills, or dodging awkward positions, as fights are slower and more forgiving. | Using Snowball forward is dangerous unless the target is controlled; the enemy can collapse before you finish your combo. | Use Snowball defensively or selectively; do not start fights by delivering yourself into melee range. |
| Augment Priority | Syndra is mostly defined by items, levels, and landing Scatter the Weak, with runes focusing on damage and scaling. | Utility or survivability augments let you survive the first dive and cast a second rotation, which often wins the fight. | Pick augments that help you live through dive champions rather than just maximizing damage numbers. |
Champion Analysis
Role / Current performance
Syndra the Dark Sovereign functions as a ranged burst mage in Hextech Mayhem (ARAM) mode, bringing extraordinary burst damage and excellent crowd control to the battlefield. Her identity centers on manipulating dark spheres, which she conjures with her core damage ability, Dark Sphere, at a target location to deal magic damage. These spheres are not only direct damage tools but also ammunition for her other abilities. With Force of Will, Syndra can grab a dark sphere or even a minion and hurl it at enemies, slowing them upon impact. Her primary crowd control ability, Scatter the Weak, pushes all darkened spheres outward, stunning any enemies hit by them. This creates a critical combo pattern: Syndra must first create multiple spheres with Dark Sphere, then use Scatter the Weak for a wide‑area stun. Her ultimate, Unleashed Power, gathers every dark sphere on the field and unleashes them all at a single target for massive damage, with each sphere adding to the total. In Hextech Mayhem, Syndra must maximize the number of spheres created with Dark Sphere before activating Unleashed Power to achieve devastating single‑target burst. Her passive, Transcendent, automatically enhances her abilities at specific levels, meaning she must reach higher levels quickly to unlock her full potential. This reliance on leveling shapes her strategic value: she becomes exponentially more dangerous as the match progresses and she accumulates sphere‑based combos. Syndra’s damage pattern revolves around precise sphere placement and timing—she is most threatening when she can set up multiple spheres for either the wide stun or the stacked ultimate. Her positioning must allow her to generate spheres safely and then engage with her crowd control or burst when enemies are clumped or vulnerable. In the chaotic close‑quarter fights of ARAM, Syndra’s burst damage and sphere‑based combos make her one of the most feared mages in the mode, capable of turning fights instantly with well‑timed area stuns and high‑damage ultimate executions.
Core Tips
Long-form tips / Play pattern
Syndra wins Mayhem fights by making the lane unsafe before the fight starts, placing spheres where enemies want to walk to force them into losing space or taking damage, then punishing the first champion who steps too far forward. Side-angle stuns are more effective than straight-line shots because players stack behind minions in ARAM. Start fights when the enemy has just used a mobility or defensive spell, and hold your stun for a second movement if they still have escapes. Do not throw your displacement tool casually when your team is ready to engage; the threat of your stun or knockback keeps divers honest. When your team lands crowd control first, follow immediately with sphere damage and burst without overthinking a perfect multi-man hit. In counter-engage, hold your knockback when assassins or Snowball users are fishing, as the threat of stopping their entry is often stronger than using it early. If a diver lands with Snowball, punish the landing point rather than panic-casting while they are still untargetable. Peel sideways, not straight backward, in crowded lanes to change skillshot lines and give your sphere push a cleaner angle. Against hard engage comps, save at least one sphere setup for defense. Retreat in steps, dropping damage as you move and threatening a stun when enemies cross the sphere line, then fully disengage once their chase tools are spent. Use terrain pressure to make chasers clump, creating opportunities to turn with a push-stun. If caught without control, throw the fastest damage while moving and create distance. For narrow-lane spacing, stand one step behind your frontline, not directly on top of your marksman, and shift positions each wave to create better stun lanes. Target priority requires bursting the champion who can actually die; if the carry is unreachable, punish the engage champion after they commit. Use your ultimate-style burst as a fight finisher or tempo breaker, not into a shielded healthy target unless your team can follow. Respect spell shields or invulnerability by baiting with a smaller spell or waiting for a teammate. Take Snowball only when it gives a real finishing angle or reposition option; against dive comps, keep it as a defensive reposition tool. Play around augment triggers without breaking safety: farm triggers through minion waves until a carry missteps, trigger damage during CC chains, take shorter.
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Playstyle / Team structure
Syndra the Dark Sovereign’s playstyle in ARAM: Mayhem is built around controlling space with precise timing. During levels 1-6, she starts slightly behind the frontline and off-center from the wave to avoid early engages. She trades in short bursts, dropping a sphere when an enemy steps up for a last hit and backing off when her stun is down. Wave choice depends on team strength: push when her team has stronger poke or the enemy waits on melee engage; stall against better long-range poke. Early Snowball is defensive or used only on low, isolated targets. Early augments support poke, safer spell access, or survival, saved for the first real engage if defensive. When ahead, she stands forward to threaten the backline while keeping the wave pushed without chasing past vision. When behind, she stops contesting every wave, farms from range, and keeps stun ready to punish overcommits. Her goal is to reach level 6 with health intact and use her first ultimate to finish a damaged carry, force a key enemy out, or create pressure. Levels 7-11 are Syndra’s strongest tempo window. She plays in the second line, close enough to follow engage but far enough that divers must spend real tools to reach her. When stun is ready, she stands wider; when down, she tucks behind allies. She pokes when enemies are locked into waveclear or chasing, avoiding full combos on healthy frontliners unless that is the only kill target. Her pick pattern uses her control spell to stop movement first, then heavy damage—reversing the order gives enemies a punish window. Snowball extends guaranteed kills, dodges lethal follow-up, or repositions after the team commits; she does not recast without frontline support. Damage augments are best used with crowd control or ally engage; haste or reset-style power is saved for extended fights; defensive augments are held until the diver commits. She pushes when enemies are low or missing cooldowns, stalls when team engage tools are down. When ahead, she uses fog and tower pressure to make enemies guess stun angles, punishing the first overextender. When behind, she peels first, clears waves, and saves ultimate for a target her team can finish. Each clean pick converts into structure damage, not a greedy chase. Levels 12 and beyond require decisive control. Her default spot is behind the engage-absorbing champion and beside a peeling teammate, avoiding standing on top of another carry. Late poke has a purpose—before a wave crash, structure defense, or when the team is ready to follow—not random spam that leaves her without stun. Her ideal target is a vulnerable carry or fragile engager; if unavailable, she controls the closest threat and helps burn it down. Late Snowball is rarely a blind engage; she treats it as repositioning, chase finisher, or follow-up on a won fight. Late augments are tied to the fight’s deciding moment: burst paired with crowd control, durability saved for the committed dive, repeated casting while kiting backward. She pushes after killing a carry or seeing key engage tools used; she stalls when her team is missing ultimates or the enemy wants a clean all-in, by thinning the wave from range. When ahead, she stands with the wave and forces enemies to choose between losing structure health or stepping into her burst. When behind, she makes the enemy’s final push awkward by clearing waves, holding control for the first overconfident enemy, and layering damage with her team.
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Strengths / Weaknesses
Syndra the Dark Sovereign excels at controlling fight tempo through sphere placement and stun threat, with her strengths becoming most apparent when she can force enemies to sidestep into danger or commit into a prepared line. Her primary weakness is fragility: she is easily caught when walking forward to finish a low-health target, when standing without crowd control, or when separated from peel. Ahead, Syndra should stop fishing from max range and instead walk up with her frontline, placing spheres in the lane before the enemy commits and threatening Scatter the Weak from an angle that hits multiple targets. This forces the enemy to either give space or spend mobility early, turning a small lead into map control. She must hold her stun for the moment someone steps forward to clear, Snowballs in, or starts a forced engage, rather than wasting it on poking a tank. When an ally lands hard crowd control, Syndra should layer her sphere damage and ultimate immediately so the target cannot flash, dash, shield, or receive peel. She protects her shutdown by standing one step behind the champion who can peel for her, not beside a diver, and takes guaranteed turret plates, inhibitors, or health relic control after kills instead of chasing into fog. Snowball is best used defensively when ahead unless the target is guaranteed, and augments that increase burst, haste, movement, or zone control all support different ahead playstyles: burst augments shorten the punish window, haste augments let her stagger damage after a pick, and movement augments enable sharper angles without face-checking. The biggest ahead mistake is starting a fight she does not need while her stun is down. When behind, Syndra switches to denial: she clears minions safely, holds Scatter the Weak for the first champion who crosses the wave, and only uses burst after the enemy has committed. She gives ground before she gives a death, saving hard crowd control for the diver or Snowball user rather than the tank’s health bar, and uses her ultimate to stop a high-threat diver from killing an ally, which can flip the fight. Behind Syndra waits for a missed hook, failed dash, or overextended Snowball recast before stepping forward to stun and burst the exposed target, and she never chases low-health enemies through a losing lane. Her augment choices while behind lean toward defensive tools that buy time to survive the first engage, movement augments for better stun spacing, and haste augments that let her clear waves while still having control ready. Damage augments are effective only on committed, exposed targets, and utility augments encourage playing closer to an ally carry. The unrecoverable fight is a 4v5, fighting with her main peel tool down, or standing in front of the wave out of desperation; behind Syndra wins by letting the enemy overextend into her stun and turning their dive into a fight they regret.
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Lore / Identity / Text block
Syndra the Dark Sovereign’s identity in ARAM: Mayhem revolves around building leverage through consistent spell usage, then transitioning from a poke-oriented controller into a high-burst executioner as her passive upgrades her basic abilities. The passive, Transcendent, rewards clean spell usage and steady fight participation, which is especially valuable in Mayhem’s constant skirmishes. Playing the first waves effectively—landing Q poke, threatening E stuns, and finishing low targets—sets up the point where her threat range and burst reliability become punishing. Missed Qs, wasted E angles, and bad W throws delay this power spike, leaving Syndra as a low-mobility mage without pressure in the chaos of the mode. Her core spell, Dark Sphere, is used not only for direct damage but to create danger zones where enemies must move, placing spheres behind retreating carries, beside last-hits, or on escape paths. Even a Q that misses damage can still matter if it sets up a good E angle. Force of Mind gives Syndra extra control over orb placement and punishes enemies who dodge only Q, but it requires a real plan before pressing it—grabbing the wrong object or holding too long can make her feel clunky in fast fights. Scatter the Weak is Syndra’s most important defensive and offensive button; treating it like a loaded weapon means opponents hesitate to dive her, but wasting it leaves her without peel, pick tools, or a reliable way to stop committed divers. Good opponents will bait E by stepping forward and backing off, or send a tank first so their carry can move after it is used. Unleashed Power, her targeted burst ultimate, is saved for removing the target that actually changes the fight—a fed carry, reset champion, or fragile engager after they commit. Enemies counter R by tracking her spheres, staying outside range, baiting it with defensive cooldowns, or forcing her to use spells before the real fight; tanks can body forward to make her choose between wasting burst or holding it while her team gets pressured. When R is down, Syndra must rely on Q-E picks and kiting with W rather than pretending she still has lethal burst. The overarching takeaway is that Syndra’s success in Mayhem depends on discipline: building toward her passive payoff, conserving E for critical moments, selecting the right ultimate target, and recognizing when to avoid forcing early trades against shielded tanks or engaging dive compositions. Every wasted spell not only loses immediate value but delays or removes the control and execution that define her as a champion in this mode.
Read full guideMistakes to Avoid
Common mistakes / Risk control
Syndra the Dark Sovereign is strongest when she plays one step behind the front line, builds spheres before the fight fully breaks open, and punishes enemies who walk into her stun threat. Most bad Syndra games come from forcing damage before the setup exists or spending Scatter the Weak at the wrong time, turning her into a short-range mage with no escape—a fatal position in ARAM: Mayhem. A common mechanical mistake is casting Dark Sphere only when ready to burst, which leaves too few spheres on the ground for a strong stun angle and reduces Unleashed Power’s threat. The correct habit is to place spheres before the real engage starts, using them to hold space around choke points, health relic zones, and wherever carries need to stand. If she starts a fight without setup, she should back up, drop a fresh sphere in front of the enemy advance, and look for a defensive Scatter rather than a greedy burst combo. Throwing Scatter straight at an enemy champion without lining it through a sphere is another critical error—it only creates a small pushback, misses the stun, and loses the spell that keeps divers honest. She must aim Scatter through an existing or freshly placed sphere, treating the sphere as the real projectile. If Scatter misses, she should immediately kite behind an ally or terrain angle and stop walking forward for damage until her control returns. Using Force of Will on the first object seen without purpose wastes time in a slow, readable animation and adds useless poke; instead, she should use it to extend her zone, slow a target her team can hit, or move a sphere into a better Scatter line. Pressing Unleashed Power the moment an enemy enters range often wastes her biggest threat into shields, damage reduction, or untargetability. She should ult when the target is already committed, crowd controlled, low enough to force a kill, or separated from peel. Walking into engage range to land a perfect combo is deadly since Syndra has no dash; she should let enemies walk into her range, use the bridge width, and cast from behind minions or frontline pressure. Stacking every spell on one target while ignoring nearby threats leaves her vulnerable to a second diver; before committing a full combo, she must check who can reach her. Aiming stuns only at the enemy backline misses high-value peel chances; she should stun the champion actually winning the fight, often the melee threat. On the decision side, playing like a pure poke mage from max range fails to threaten kills; she should use poke to soften targets, then hold a sphere-stun or ultimate threat. Starting fights before her frontline is ready lets enemies back up and engage while her key spells are missing. Holding ultimate forever for a perfect execute loses fights with damage unused; she should use it when it creates a numbers advantage or removes a key target. Blowing Scatter for harmless poke right before an enemy engage window lets tanks and assassins walk in without respecting peel. Taking Snowball aggressively just because an enemy is low delivers her into the enemy team; she should use it only when the landing spot is safe. Ignoring enemy defensive reactions when choosing a burst target gets her combo absorbed; she should burst the target with no answer left. Standing beside her carry instead of offset behind them allows one engage to hit both; she should stand slightly behind and to the side.
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Syndra
Is Syndra a safe pick in ARAM: Mayhem? Yes, if you play her like a control mage and not a front-line burst champion. Stand behind your engage or your strongest peel, place spheres where enemies must walk, and punish anyone who steps too far forward. The tradeoff is that Syndra can feel useless if she wastes Scatter the Weak and then gets rushed before her team can cover her. What is Syndra trying to do in most fights? Syndra wants to create a threat zone first, then convert one enemy mistake into a stun, burst combo, or forced retreat. If the enemy carries walk near your spheres or into a narrow lane angle, use Scatter the Weak to start the fight on your terms. If you spend everything just to poke a tank, you lose your best punish tool when the real target appears. Should I poke constantly or save spells for all-in windows? Poke when the enemy cannot immediately engage on you, especially after they use dash, hook, Snowball, or major crowd control. Save your full combo when a priority target is already slowed, stunned, displaced, or trapped near your spheres. The tradeoff is simple: constant poke builds pressure, but empty cooldowns invite hard engage.
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