Karma ARAM Mayhem Build & Best Augments

Morgana T1

Tier

T1

Rank

#32

Win Rate

52.56%

Pick Rate

1.14%

Morgana is a control mage-support who wins ARAM: Mayhem by catching one target, protecting the right ally, and making tight spaces miserable for the enemy team. Her signature pattern is simple: land a binding, drop her damage zone under the trapped target, then use her spell shield to block the counter-engage or protect whoever is stepping forward. In Mayhem, fights break out faster and augments can make engages much harder to read, so Morgana is strongest when she plays patiently instead of fishing nonstop. Hold key choke points, punish enemies who walk too straight, and save your shield for the spell that actually starts the fight. If you miss your catch tool, back up and reset; if you land it, your team gets a clean window to burst, follow up, or force the enemy frontline to retreat. View champion guide

Yasuo T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#35

Win Rate

52.16%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Yasuo the Unforgiven is a mobile melee carry who turns knock-ups, dashes, and fast skirmishes into lethal all-ins. His job is to weave through the frontline, stack pressure with repeated strikes, and punish any enemy who gets lifted or caught too close.In ARAM: Mayhem, Yasuo gets more chances to fight because teams are packed into one lane and engages happen constantly. That helps his signature pattern: wait for a knock-up, dash in, burst the target, then keep moving before the enemy team can lock him down. He is exciting but risky. If he dives without a setup or burns his mobility into crowd control, he can disappear fast.Pick Yasuo when your team has reliable knock-ups or enough frontline to start fights for him. Play patiently when they do not. Let enemies waste key control tools first, then enter from an angle and clean up the fight. View champion guide

Leona T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#37

Win Rate

51.64%

Pick Rate

0.65%

Leona is a hard-engage tank who starts fights, locks one target in place, and gives her team a clear signal to go in. Her basic pattern is simple: find an angle, land the engage, chain her stun and ultimate, then stand in front while allies finish the target. In ARAM: Mayhem, Leona’s job gets even more direct. Fights happen often, damage comes fast, and augments can make both teams much harder to predict. She shines when your team can follow her first move, but she is punished if she dives too early or picks a target her allies cannot reach. Play her like a trigger, not a solo carry: wait for a real opening, force the fight, then keep the enemy backline or diver under control. View champion guide

Hecarim T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#51

Win Rate

51.43%

Pick Rate

0.39%

Hecarim is a fast melee diver who turns movement into threat. He wants to hit from an angle, crash into the backline, and keep fighting while enemies are displaced or forced to run. His basic pattern is simple: build speed, commit hard, sweep through targets, then use the chaos to either finish a carry or pull back before the enemy team can focus him down. In ARAM: Mayhem, Hecarim gets more chances to start fights because the map is narrow and teams group constantly. That also means bad engages get punished fast. Look for moments when an enemy carry steps too far forward, your team can follow, or Snowball gives you a clean entry. If you charge in alone with no backup, Hecarim can disappear before his sustain and disruption matter. Pick Hecarim when your team needs an aggressive frontliner who can force action instead of waiting forever. He is easiest to play when you track enemy crowd control, enter from the side, and keep moving after the first hit. In Mayhem, his best games feel relentless: one good engage breaks the formation, and Hecarim runs the fight down before the enemy team can reset. View champion guide

Zed T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#52

Win Rate

50.26%

Pick Rate

0.75%

Zed is a mobile AD assassin who looks for isolated or softened targets, marks them with his shadows, then snaps back out before the enemy team can punish him. His signature pattern is simple to understand: poke with shadow angles, wait for a key cooldown to miss, dive the carry, and use the return shadow to escape or dodge retaliation.In ARAM: Mayhem, Zed gets more chances to fight because teams clash constantly and targets are often already low. He is still not a frontliner, so patience matters. Use the chaos to hide your engage, punish squishy champions who step past their team, and avoid diving into layered crowd control unless you have a clear way back out. View champion guide

Soraka T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#77

Win Rate

50.36%

Pick Rate

0.55%

Soraka the Starchild is a backline enchanter who wins fights by keeping allies alive longer than the enemy expects. Her core pattern is simple: stay behind your frontline, tag enemies when it is safe, silence or zone threats trying to dive, and spend your healing at the moment it denies a kill. In ARAM: Mayhem, the constant grouped fighting makes Soraka feel powerful but also very punishable. She shines when her team can protect a stable backline and take extended trades. She struggles when assassins, hard engage, or poke force her to heal too early. Play patiently, value positioning over greed, and make enemies commit badly before you spend your biggest saves. View champion guide

Hecarim T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#51

Win Rate

51.43%

Pick Rate

0.39%

Hecarim is a fast melee diver who turns movement into threat. He wants to hit from an angle, crash into the backline, and keep fighting while enemies are displaced or forced to run. His basic pattern is simple: build speed, commit hard, sweep through targets, then use the chaos to either finish a carry or pull back before the enemy team can focus him down. In ARAM: Mayhem, Hecarim gets more chances to start fights because the map is narrow and teams group constantly. That also means bad engages get punished fast. Look for moments when an enemy carry steps too far forward, your team can follow, or Snowball gives you a clean entry. If you charge in alone with no backup, Hecarim can disappear before his sustain and disruption matter. Pick Hecarim when your team needs an aggressive frontliner who can force action instead of waiting forever. He is easiest to play when you track enemy crowd control, enter from the side, and keep moving after the first hit. In Mayhem, his best games feel relentless: one good engage breaks the formation, and Hecarim runs the fight down before the enemy team can reset. View champion guide

Karma T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#120

Win Rate

47.92%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Karma the Enlightened One Karma is an offensive support mage who defines games through poke, disengage, and burst shielding. She sits in the backline, charging her Mantra to decide when a fight turns. Her identity is simple: land Qs, empower the right ability, and keep her team healthy while chipping away at the enemy. In ARAM: Mayhem, she becomes a relentless spam engine. The mode's accelerated gold and experience let her hit her cooldown reduction cap quickly, turning her from a tempo mage into a constant pressure source. She does not one-shot tanks, but she makes sieging impossible for the enemy and surviving easy for her team. Core Identity and Role She functions primarily as a poke and disengage support. Unlike pure enchanters who heal, Karma prevents damage with shields and speed bursts. Unlike burst mages, she relies on sustained damage and crowd control over time rather than a single rotation. She fits best on compositions that want to kite backward or siege towers without diving. Her signature pattern is the Mantra Q. She activates her ultimate, fires an empowered Inner Flame, and creates a wide explosion that slows and deals heavy area damage. This creates a zone the enemy cannot walk through. If they force the issue, she uses Mantra E to shield her whole team and grant a massive movement speed burst, repositioning everyone instantly. What Changes in Mayhem Mayhem speeds up her entire game plan. In standard ARAM, Karma often struggles with mana early or feels weak if she falls behind on gold. Here, she reaches her power spikes faster and stays relevant longer. The increased ability haste available in the mode means her Mantra cooldown drops rapidly, letting her empower abilities in almost every skirmish. Constant Mantra access: She empowers abilities much more often, making her burst shielding or poke available for every engagement. Enhanced disengage: The mode favors aggressive engages, but her Mantra E shuts down dives harder when she has the haste to cast it repeatedly. Sustained poke pressure: She forces enemies off objectives or towers faster because she never runs out of resources to throw. She excels at keeping her team at full health while forcing the enemy to recall. Her weakness remains her lack of hard crowd control and low durability if caught. If the enemy has unstopabble engages or long-range burst, she has to play further back and rely on her empowered shields to recover. In Mayhem, her ability to dictate pacing makes her a consistent and reliable pick for players who prefer positioning over mechanical execution. View champion guide

Yasuo T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#35

Win Rate

52.16%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Yasuo the Unforgiven is a mobile melee carry who turns knock-ups, dashes, and fast skirmishes into lethal all-ins. His job is to weave through the frontline, stack pressure with repeated strikes, and punish any enemy who gets lifted or caught too close.In ARAM: Mayhem, Yasuo gets more chances to fight because teams are packed into one lane and engages happen constantly. That helps his signature pattern: wait for a knock-up, dash in, burst the target, then keep moving before the enemy team can lock him down. He is exciting but risky. If he dives without a setup or burns his mobility into crowd control, he can disappear fast.Pick Yasuo when your team has reliable knock-ups or enough frontline to start fights for him. Play patiently when they do not. Let enemies waste key control tools first, then enter from an angle and clean up the fight. View champion guide

Veigar T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#81

Win Rate

50.14%

Pick Rate

0.98%

Veigar is a scaling burst mage who controls space with his cage and deletes targets once they are forced to stand still. His usual pattern is simple: punish clumped enemies, trap priority targets, then stack damage through repeated spell hits and takedown pressure.In ARAM: Mayhem, Veigar gets more chances to fight than on a normal map, but he also has less room to hide. Play him as a backline control mage: hold your stun for engages or escapes, farm stacks safely when the wave is contested, and use the chaos of Mayhem to land huge area damage on enemies who overcommit. View champion guide

Lissandra T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#109

Win Rate

48.19%

Pick Rate

0.48%

Lissandra the Ice Witch Lissandra is a battle-mage who controls space through crowd control and zone denial. She excels at engaging, locking down priority targets, and turning her own body into a frozen trap. In ARAM: Mayhem, she becomes a relentless initiator who can start fights on her terms almost every few seconds. Core Identity She is the queen of "jump on you and die slowly." Lissandra wants to blink into the enemy team, stun someone, and survive long enough to do it again. Her kit rewards aggression over patience. You exist to start fights, not to poke from the back. Role in Mayhem Primary Engage: Your Claw dash lets you close distance instantly. In Mayhem's chaotic environment, you can reach backliners before they react. Counter-Dive Tool: Self-cast ultimate makes you unkillable for a window while damaging everyone around you. Assassins who jump in often trade their lives for nothing. Zone Control: The slow field from your passive and abilities creates dangerous ground. Enemies either walk through it and get caught, or sidestep and lose positioning. Signature Pattern Cast Claw to start moving. Mid-flight, queue your Ring. Land, root the target, and immediately ult either them or yourself depending on who else is nearby. If you're getting collapsed on, self-ult and let your team clean up. If you caught a squishy alone, ult them and watch them die in place. What Changes in Mayhem Ability haste and reduced cooldowns transform Lissandra from a one-and-done engager into a repeatable threat. In standard ARAM, you wait for the perfect moment because your cooldowns are long. Here, you can afford to test engages. Missed Claw? It's back soon. Wasted ult? You'll have it again before the next major fight. Snowball becomes even more flexible. You can Snowball in, save Claw for repositioning, or use Claw first and keep Snowball as a backup escape. The faster pace means enemies group tighter, which makes your area-of-effect damage and crowd control more valuable. View champion guide

Karma T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#120

Win Rate

47.92%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Karma the Enlightened One Karma is an offensive support mage who defines games through poke, disengage, and burst shielding. She sits in the backline, charging her Mantra to decide when a fight turns. Her identity is simple: land Qs, empower the right ability, and keep her team healthy while chipping away at the enemy. In ARAM: Mayhem, she becomes a relentless spam engine. The mode's accelerated gold and experience let her hit her cooldown reduction cap quickly, turning her from a tempo mage into a constant pressure source. She does not one-shot tanks, but she makes sieging impossible for the enemy and surviving easy for her team. Core Identity and Role She functions primarily as a poke and disengage support. Unlike pure enchanters who heal, Karma prevents damage with shields and speed bursts. Unlike burst mages, she relies on sustained damage and crowd control over time rather than a single rotation. She fits best on compositions that want to kite backward or siege towers without diving. Her signature pattern is the Mantra Q. She activates her ultimate, fires an empowered Inner Flame, and creates a wide explosion that slows and deals heavy area damage. This creates a zone the enemy cannot walk through. If they force the issue, she uses Mantra E to shield her whole team and grant a massive movement speed burst, repositioning everyone instantly. What Changes in Mayhem Mayhem speeds up her entire game plan. In standard ARAM, Karma often struggles with mana early or feels weak if she falls behind on gold. Here, she reaches her power spikes faster and stays relevant longer. The increased ability haste available in the mode means her Mantra cooldown drops rapidly, letting her empower abilities in almost every skirmish. Constant Mantra access: She empowers abilities much more often, making her burst shielding or poke available for every engagement. Enhanced disengage: The mode favors aggressive engages, but her Mantra E shuts down dives harder when she has the haste to cast it repeatedly. Sustained poke pressure: She forces enemies off objectives or towers faster because she never runs out of resources to throw. She excels at keeping her team at full health while forcing the enemy to recall. Her weakness remains her lack of hard crowd control and low durability if caught. If the enemy has unstopabble engages or long-range burst, she has to play further back and rely on her empowered shields to recover. In Mayhem, her ability to dictate pacing makes her a consistent and reliable pick for players who prefer positioning over mechanical execution. View champion guide

Zed T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#52

Win Rate

50.26%

Pick Rate

0.75%

Zed is a mobile AD assassin who looks for isolated or softened targets, marks them with his shadows, then snaps back out before the enemy team can punish him. His signature pattern is simple to understand: poke with shadow angles, wait for a key cooldown to miss, dive the carry, and use the return shadow to escape or dodge retaliation.In ARAM: Mayhem, Zed gets more chances to fight because teams clash constantly and targets are often already low. He is still not a frontliner, so patience matters. Use the chaos to hide your engage, punish squishy champions who step past their team, and avoid diving into layered crowd control unless you have a clear way back out. View champion guide

Soraka T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#77

Win Rate

50.36%

Pick Rate

0.55%

Soraka the Starchild is a backline enchanter who wins fights by keeping allies alive longer than the enemy expects. Her core pattern is simple: stay behind your frontline, tag enemies when it is safe, silence or zone threats trying to dive, and spend your healing at the moment it denies a kill. In ARAM: Mayhem, the constant grouped fighting makes Soraka feel powerful but also very punishable. She shines when her team can protect a stable backline and take extended trades. She struggles when assassins, hard engage, or poke force her to heal too early. Play patiently, value positioning over greed, and make enemies commit badly before you spend your biggest saves. View champion guide

Talon T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#86

Win Rate

49.81%

Pick Rate

0.44%

Talon the Blade's Shadow Talon is a physical burst assassin who wants to appear from an angle, kill a fragile target fast, and leave before the enemy team can lock him down. His signature pattern is simple: look for a softened carry, enter from fog or terrain, dump damage in a short window, then use his mobility and stealth timing to escape or reposition. In ARAM: Mayhem, Talon plays more like a high-speed pick threat than a slow flanker. Fights start often, targets are usually grouped, and random power spikes can make both his burst and his risk much sharper. He is easy to understand but punishing to mistime: go in after key crowd control is used, not when the whole enemy team is still waiting to peel. View champion guide

Karma T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#120

Win Rate

47.92%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Karma the Enlightened One Karma is an offensive support mage who defines games through poke, disengage, and burst shielding. She sits in the backline, charging her Mantra to decide when a fight turns. Her identity is simple: land Qs, empower the right ability, and keep her team healthy while chipping away at the enemy. In ARAM: Mayhem, she becomes a relentless spam engine. The mode's accelerated gold and experience let her hit her cooldown reduction cap quickly, turning her from a tempo mage into a constant pressure source. She does not one-shot tanks, but she makes sieging impossible for the enemy and surviving easy for her team. Core Identity and Role She functions primarily as a poke and disengage support. Unlike pure enchanters who heal, Karma prevents damage with shields and speed bursts. Unlike burst mages, she relies on sustained damage and crowd control over time rather than a single rotation. She fits best on compositions that want to kite backward or siege towers without diving. Her signature pattern is the Mantra Q. She activates her ultimate, fires an empowered Inner Flame, and creates a wide explosion that slows and deals heavy area damage. This creates a zone the enemy cannot walk through. If they force the issue, she uses Mantra E to shield her whole team and grant a massive movement speed burst, repositioning everyone instantly. What Changes in Mayhem Mayhem speeds up her entire game plan. In standard ARAM, Karma often struggles with mana early or feels weak if she falls behind on gold. Here, she reaches her power spikes faster and stays relevant longer. The increased ability haste available in the mode means her Mantra cooldown drops rapidly, letting her empower abilities in almost every skirmish. Constant Mantra access: She empowers abilities much more often, making her burst shielding or poke available for every engagement. Enhanced disengage: The mode favors aggressive engages, but her Mantra E shuts down dives harder when she has the haste to cast it repeatedly. Sustained poke pressure: She forces enemies off objectives or towers faster because she never runs out of resources to throw. She excels at keeping her team at full health while forcing the enemy to recall. Her weakness remains her lack of hard crowd control and low durability if caught. If the enemy has unstopabble engages or long-range burst, she has to play further back and rely on her empowered shields to recover. In Mayhem, her ability to dictate pacing makes her a consistent and reliable pick for players who prefer positioning over mechanical execution. View champion guide

Varus T5

Tier

T5

Rank

#155

Win Rate

46.18%

Pick Rate

1.04%

Varus the Arrow of Retribution Varus is a long-range poke marksman who dominates lanes by wearing down enemies before they can close the distance. He fills the artillery carry role, relying on charged shots and crowd control to dictate the flow of fights from safety. His signature pattern revolves around charging Piercing Arrow (Q) to snipe low-health targets or harass opponents under their tower. He stacks blight on enemies with basic attacks, then detonates those stacks with abilities for burst damage. This creates a rhythm: auto-attack, ability, auto-attack, ability. In ARAM: Mayhem, Varus becomes significantly more oppressive. The mode's accelerated pace and increased mana regeneration let him fire fully charged arrows almost on cooldown. His ultimate, Chain of Corruption, spreads faster in constant team fights, often triggering multiple chains in a single engagement. He transitions from a careful poker into a relentless siege engine that forces enemies to dodge or die. View champion guide

Gragas T3

Tier

T3

Rank

#96

Win Rate

49.46%

Pick Rate

0.50%

Gragas is a flexible brawler-mage who can start fights, peel divers, and punish clumped enemies with explosive displacement. His core pattern is simple: fish with barrels, threaten a body slam engage when someone steps too far forward, then use his ultimate to split the enemy team or knock a priority target into danger. In ARAM: Mayhem, Gragas gets more chances to matter because fights happen constantly and enemies are often packed into narrow space. He can build toward burst when his team needs damage, or play bulkier when he is the main frontline. The key is patience. If you throw everything at the first target you see, good players walk past you after your combo. Hold your engage until an enemy carry is trapped, a diver commits, or your team is ready to follow the knockback. View champion guide

Karma T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#120

Win Rate

47.92%

Pick Rate

0.70%

Karma the Enlightened One Karma is an offensive support mage who defines games through poke, disengage, and burst shielding. She sits in the backline, charging her Mantra to decide when a fight turns. Her identity is simple: land Qs, empower the right ability, and keep her team healthy while chipping away at the enemy. In ARAM: Mayhem, she becomes a relentless spam engine. The mode's accelerated gold and experience let her hit her cooldown reduction cap quickly, turning her from a tempo mage into a constant pressure source. She does not one-shot tanks, but she makes sieging impossible for the enemy and surviving easy for her team. Core Identity and Role She functions primarily as a poke and disengage support. Unlike pure enchanters who heal, Karma prevents damage with shields and speed bursts. Unlike burst mages, she relies on sustained damage and crowd control over time rather than a single rotation. She fits best on compositions that want to kite backward or siege towers without diving. Her signature pattern is the Mantra Q. She activates her ultimate, fires an empowered Inner Flame, and creates a wide explosion that slows and deals heavy area damage. This creates a zone the enemy cannot walk through. If they force the issue, she uses Mantra E to shield her whole team and grant a massive movement speed burst, repositioning everyone instantly. What Changes in Mayhem Mayhem speeds up her entire game plan. In standard ARAM, Karma often struggles with mana early or feels weak if she falls behind on gold. Here, she reaches her power spikes faster and stays relevant longer. The increased ability haste available in the mode means her Mantra cooldown drops rapidly, letting her empower abilities in almost every skirmish. Constant Mantra access: She empowers abilities much more often, making her burst shielding or poke available for every engagement. Enhanced disengage: The mode favors aggressive engages, but her Mantra E shuts down dives harder when she has the haste to cast it repeatedly. Sustained poke pressure: She forces enemies off objectives or towers faster because she never runs out of resources to throw. She excels at keeping her team at full health while forcing the enemy to recall. Her weakness remains her lack of hard crowd control and low durability if caught. If the enemy has unstopabble engages or long-range burst, she has to play further back and rely on her empowered shields to recover. In Mayhem, her ability to dictate pacing makes her a consistent and reliable pick for players who prefer positioning over mechanical execution. View champion guide

Malphite T4

Tier

T4

Rank

#127

Win Rate

47.50%

Pick Rate

0.92%

Malphite – Shard of the Monolith Malphite is a tanky engage champion built around one devastating combo: Unstoppable Force into everything else. His identity is simple—he runs at you, becomes impossible to kill, and turns teamfights with a single well-timed ultimate. In standard modes, he's known as "the press R to win champion," and that reputation follows him into ARAM. What changes in ARAM: Mayhem is how often he gets to do it. The accelerated gold and experience means Malphite hits his power spikes faster and stays relevant longer. He's not stuck farming for twenty minutes waiting for a chance to flash-ult. Instead, he's constantly looking for angles, constantly threatening the engage, and constantly forcing the enemy team to respect his cooldown. The single-lane format actually helps him—there's nowhere to run when a giant rock monster crashes through your entire backline. His role is frontline disruptor. He soaks damage, peels for carries, and creates openings with Ground Slam and Unstoppable Force. He doesn't deal massive sustained damage, but he doesn't need to. One good ultimate can set up his entire team to clean up a fight. The trade-off is that when his ultimate is down, he's much less threatening. Smart enemies will track that cooldown and play aggressively when they know he can't engage. Mayhem's faster pacing also means Malphite has to be more decisive. He can't afford to sit back and wait for the perfect engage forever—the game moves too quickly. He needs to recognize when a good opportunity becomes a great one, commit fully, and trust his team to follow up. Passive play loses games in this mode, even on a tank. View champion guide

Hecarim T2

Tier

T2

Rank

#51

Win Rate

51.43%

Pick Rate

0.39%

Hecarim is a fast melee diver who turns movement into threat. He wants to hit from an angle, crash into the backline, and keep fighting while enemies are displaced or forced to run. His basic pattern is simple: build speed, commit hard, sweep through targets, then use the chaos to either finish a carry or pull back before the enemy team can focus him down. In ARAM: Mayhem, Hecarim gets more chances to start fights because the map is narrow and teams group constantly. That also means bad engages get punished fast. Look for moments when an enemy carry steps too far forward, your team can follow, or Snowball gives you a clean entry. If you charge in alone with no backup, Hecarim can disappear before his sustain and disruption matter. Pick Hecarim when your team needs an aggressive frontliner who can force action instead of waiting forever. He is easiest to play when you track enemy crowd control, enter from the side, and keep moving after the first hit. In Mayhem, his best games feel relentless: one good engage breaks the formation, and Hecarim runs the fight down before the enemy team can reset. View champion guide