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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
- 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
- 1,100
- Price
- 800
+12 Magic Penetration +45 Move Speed
- 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%.
- 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
- 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
- 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
45.94%- 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.
45.41%- 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.
45.83%- Total Price
- 3,500
- Price
- 1,100
+130 Ability Power Magical Opus: Increases your total Ability Power by 30%.
46.77%- 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%.
44.82%- Total Price
- 3,000
- Price
- 1,050
+95 Ability Power +40% Magic Penetration
43.90%- 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.
45.95%- Total Price
- 3,000
- Price
- 450
+70 Ability Power +350 Health +25 Ability Haste +4% Move Speed Spelldance: Dealing magic or true damage to champions grants Move Speed for 4 seconds.
45.18%- 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.
48.20%- Total Price
- 3,250
- Price
- 450
+105 Ability Power +50 Armor Time Stop: Enter Stasis for 2.5 seconds.
43.34%- Total Price
- 2,900
- Price
- 450
+70 Ability Power +600 Mana +25 Ability Haste Awe Gain Ability Power equal to 1% bonus Mana. Manaflow (8s, max 5 charges) Landing Abilities grants 5 max Mana (doubled vs. champions). Transforms into Seraph's Embrace at 360 max Mana.
45.40%- Total Price
- 900
- Price
- 350
+10 Ability Haste +45 Move Speed Ionian Insight: Gain 10 Summoner Spell Haste.
43.79%Starting items
- Total Price
- 150
- Price
- 150
Active (2 charges) Restores +100 Health over 12 seconds. Refills upon visiting the shop.
46.45%- Total Price
- 1,200
- Price
- 250
+40 Ability Power +300 Mana +10 Ability Haste Enlighten Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
46.45%- Total Price
- 1,200
- Price
- 250
+40 Ability Power +300 Mana +10 Ability Haste Enlighten Levelling up restores 20% max Mana over 3 seconds.
46.79%- Total Price
- 300
- Price
- 300
+300 Mana
45.00%- Total Price
- 400
- Price
- 400
+20 Ability Power
45.00%- Total Price
- 250
- Price
- 250
+5 Ability Haste
45.00%- Total Price
- 400
- Price
- 400
+240 Mana Manaflow (8s, max 4 charges) Landing Abilities grants 3 max Mana (doubled vs. champions), up to 360. Helping Hand Attacks deal an additional 5 physical damage to minions.
45.00%Best ARAM Mayhem Augments
Hextech recommendations / Combo value
| Name | Rarity | Tier | Pick Rate | Games | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gain one random Prismatic augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 51.39% | 6.90% | 2,234 |
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 | 50.84% | 12.46% | 4,036 |
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 | 50.22% | 6.39% | 2,069 |
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 | 50.19% | 6.44% | 2,084 |
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 | 50.17% | 6.34% | 2,053 |
Gain the Dark Harvest and First Strike keystone runes. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 50.16% | 6.95% | 2,251 |
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 | 50.15% | 5.13% | 1,661 |
Gain ability haste equal to 30% AP . View augment details | Prismatic | T1 | 50.02% | 13.33% | 4,318 |
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 | 49.84% | 5.73% | 1,856 |
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 | 49.42% | 8.55% | 2,770 |
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 | 48.79% | 6.39% | 2,068 |
Gain the Arcane Comet and Summon Aery keystone runes. View augment details | Gold | T1 | 48.42% | 5.94% | 1,925 |
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 | 48.32% | 14.83% | 4,801 |
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 | 48.24% | 14.75% | 4,776 |
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 | 48.19% | 11.94% | 3,866 |
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 | 47.99% | 6.69% | 2,165 |
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 | 47.97% | 5.86% | 1,899 |
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 | T1 | 47.83% | 13.83% | 4,480 |
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 | 47.61% | 8.99% | 2,911 |
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 | 47.59% | 20.02% | 6,482 |
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 | 47.47% | 4.77% | 1,544 |
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 | 47.28% | 9.25% | 2,997 |
Grants 20 – 80 (based on level) ability power . View augment details | Silver | T1 | 46.91% | 12.21% | 3,954 |
Whenever you damage an enemy champion with an ability, gain 200 bonus movement speed decaying over 0. 75 seconds. View augment details | Silver | T1 | 46.87% | 5.23% | 1,694 |
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 | T1 | 46.87% | 5.62% | 1,820 |
Grants 60 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 46.05% | 4.34% | 1,405 |
Grants 18% armor penetration and magic penetration . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 45.92% | 8.26% | 2,674 |
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 | 45.92% | 9.88% | 3,199 |
Your champion's first basic ability (Q) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T1 | 45.81% | 4.68% | 1,515 |
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 | 45.34% | 5.83% | 1,888 |
【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 | 45.04% | 4.70% | 1,521 |
Gain 3 Stat Anvils , with a higher chance of obtaining Gold and Prismatic tier anvils. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 54.50% | 3.36% | 1,088 |
Gain 2 Stat Anvils . View augment details | Silver | T2 | 53.89% | 2.14% | 694 |
Gain a shield that absorbs damage equal to 300% AP and lasts until destroyed. Shield is replenished upon respawn. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 53.07% | 4.02% | 1,302 |
Grants bonus health equal to 50% maximum mana . View augment details | Silver | T2 | 52.38% | 3.57% | 1,155 |
Gain 100% bonus movement speed . This bonus is lost for 6 seconds after taking damage from champions. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 51.28% | 1.69% | 548 |
Gain two completely random augments, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Prismatic | T2 | 51.10% | 2.10% | 681 |
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 | T2 | 50.87% | 2.67% | 865 |
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 | 50.69% | 2.67% | 864 |
Gain one random Gold augment, excluding the other two offerings in your current assortment. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 50.39% | 3.53% | 1,143 |
You can no longer be healed by allies and your health regeneration is set to 0 . Gain 25% omnivamp . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 50.04% | 3.67% | 1,187 |
Gain 60 ability haste , increased by 3 each time you score a champion takedown . View augment details | Prismatic | T2 | 49.67% | 2.36% | 765 |
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 | 49.51% | 2.84% | 919 |
Grants the Hextech Dragon Soul , or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 49.41% | 1.58% | 512 |
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 | 49.05% | 1.96% | 634 |
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 | T2 | 49.01% | 1.87% | 604 |
Immobilizing or grounding an enemy champion grants you 20 bonus health , stacking infinitely (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). View augment details | Gold | T2 | 48.29% | 2.88% | 934 |
Grants the Infernal Dragon Soul , or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T2 | 47.61% | 1.94% | 628 |
Casting an ability heals you for 5 – 60 (based on level) (+ 1% maximum health) . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 46.96% | 2.18% | 707 |
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 | T2 | 46.56% | 1.62% | 524 |
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 | 46.49% | 1.85% | 598 |
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 | 46.18% | 2.75% | 890 |
Your champion's second basic ability (W) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 45.86% | 2.87% | 929 |
Gain 1750 upon acquiring this augment. View augment details | Gold | T2 | 45.72% | 2.49% | 807 |
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 | T2 | 45.33% | 2.45% | 792 |
Your slowing effects reduce the movement speed of targets by an additional 75 . View augment details | Silver | T2 | 45.19% | 1.93% | 624 |
Basic attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 75% AP . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 45.02% | 4.16% | 1,346 |
Your champion's third basic ability (E) gains 100 ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T2 | 43.96% | 2.99% | 969 |
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 | 43.89% | 2.81% | 909 |
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 | 52.61% | 0.71% | 230 |
Your current augments transform into an equal number of completely random Prismatic ones. View augment details | Prismatic | T3 | 52.32% | 1.40% | 453 |
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 | T3 | 52.07% | 1.27% | 411 |
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 | 51.50% | 0.82% | 266 |
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 | 50.94% | 1.15% | 371 |
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 | T3 | 49.80% | 1.51% | 490 |
Heal for 0. 2 – 1. 2 (based on level) (+ 0. 01 % maximum health) per 10 units travelled. View augment details | Gold | T3 | 49.80% | 0.76% | 245 |
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 | T3 | 49.42% | 0.79% | 257 |
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 | 49.31% | 0.90% | 290 |
Grants bonus movement speed equal to 70% ability haste . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 49.17% | 1.11% | 360 |
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 | 49.10% | 1.20% | 389 |
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 | 49.02% | 1.10% | 357 |
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 | 48.95% | 1.17% | 380 |
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 | 48.72% | 0.72% | 234 |
Gain 15% omnivamp . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.66% | 0.81% | 261 |
Gain 50 bonus movement speed and 40% slow resist . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.35% | 1.03% | 333 |
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 | T3 | 48.33% | 0.65% | 209 |
Gain 35% (+ 5% per 100 AP) bonus attack speed and 25% (+ 5% per 100 AP) critical strike chance . View augment details | Silver | T3 | 48.32% | 1.47% | 476 |
Heal for 12% of the post-mitigation damage dealt by your critical strikes . Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 46.99% | 1.08% | 349 |
Grants 50% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T3 | 46.83% | 1.27% | 410 |
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 | 46.71% | 0.89% | 289 |
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 | 46.27% | 0.62% | 201 |
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 | 45.95% | 1.03% | 333 |
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 | 45.77% | 1.35% | 437 |
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 | 45.40% | 1.04% | 337 |
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 | 45.26% | 1.01% | 327 |
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 | T3 | 44.73% | 0.73% | 237 |
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 | T3 | 44.36% | 0.79% | 257 |
Grants 100 item haste , which is equivalent to 50% cooldown reduction for items. View augment details | Gold | T3 | 43.57% | 0.99% | 319 |
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 | 43.37% | 0.86% | 279 |
Your abilities apply on-hit effects (1 second cooldown per target). View augment details | Gold | T3 | 42.71% | 1.21% | 391 |
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 | 42.67% | 0.95% | 307 |
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 | 40.81% | 1.14% | 370 |
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 | 36.91% | 0.98% | 317 |
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 | T3 | 35.42% | 0.74% | 240 |
Deal 1% increased damage per 10 movement speed you have more than the target. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 60.87% | 0.21% | 69 |
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 | 58.00% | 0.31% | 100 |
Your champion abilities deal 35% increased damage and you gain 70 ability haste and 35% increased healing and shielding from all sources, but your ultimate ability is permanently sealed . View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 56.76% | 0.23% | 74 |
Automatically cast a modified version of Lissandra's Ring of Frost , creating a cold pulse around you in 450 radius that roots nearby enemies for 1. 25 seconds (6. 5 second cooldown). This modified ability does not deal damage. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 56.25% | 0.30% | 96 |
Upon entering the enemy team's gate or Catapult for the first time, either of which are located near their spawn , you become Kinged , causing you to gain one random Prismatic-tier augment and the first eligible Legendary item in your inventory to be upgraded with improved stats. The gold value of all upgradeable stats on the item is increased by exactly 1000 . King Me prioritize upgrading the first Legendary item eligible for a upgrade based on its position in the inventory, detecting each slot until an eligible item is found. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 55.84% | 0.24% | 77 |
Grants the Mountain Dragon Soul , or a different Dragon Soul if you aleady have it. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 51.47% | 0.21% | 68 |
Scoring a champion takedown grants you 100% bonus movement speed and 15% total attack speed for 4 seconds. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 51.47% | 0.21% | 68 |
Grants 35% bonus health , 15% adaptive force , and 50% increased size. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 50.36% | 0.43% | 139 |
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 | T4 | 49.47% | 0.58% | 188 |
Grants 3 random Dragon Souls . View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 49.44% | 0.55% | 178 |
Basic attacks on-hit reduce the remaining cooldowns of your abilities by 1. 25 seconds. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 49.28% | 0.21% | 69 |
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 | 48.99% | 0.46% | 149 |
Automatically cast an improved version of Camille's Tactical Sweep when an enemy champion is within 650 units of you, winding up over 0. 75 seconds to slash in a 650 radius around you. The slash deals 200 – 350 (based on level) (+ 75% bonus AD) (+ 45% AP) physical damage to enemies within the area (30 second cooldown). Enemies hit by the outer edge of the circle take bonus physical damage equal to 10% (+ 2. 5 % per 100 bonus AD) (+ 1. 6 % per 100 AP) (+ 0. 1 % per 100 bonus health) of their maximum health and are slowed by 80% decaying over 2 seconds. Additionally, you are healed for 80% of the bonus post-mitigation damage against enemy champions hit by the outer edge. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 48.57% | 0.32% | 105 |
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 | 48.31% | 0.36% | 118 |
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 | 48.09% | 0.40% | 131 |
Gain ( 75 / 50) bonus attack range. View augment details | Silver | T4 | 47.14% | 0.22% | 70 |
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 | 46.71% | 0.47% | 152 |
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 | 46.46% | 0.39% | 127 |
Gain ( 200 / 100) bonus attack range. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 46.21% | 0.41% | 132 |
Quest: Obtain Heartsteel and accumulate over 300 bonus health from Colossal Consumption . Reward: Upon completing your Quest , increase the bonus health gained from Heartsteel's Colossal Consumption by 200%. View augment details | Gold | T4 | 45.95% | 0.23% | 74 |
Grants 1000% base health regeneration , increased to 2000% while below 25% maximum health . View augment details | Gold | T4 | 45.22% | 0.36% | 115 |
Casting your ultimate ability grants you crowd control immunity for 3 seconds (8 second cooldown). View augment details | Silver | T4 | 45.16% | 0.38% | 124 |
Your heals and shields now have a chance equal to your critical strike chance to increase in effectiveness by 40% (5 second cooldown per cast instance ). Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T4 | 44.09% | 0.29% | 93 |
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 | T4 | 42.86% | 0.41% | 133 |
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 | 42.18% | 0.45% | 147 |
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 | 42.11% | 0.35% | 114 |
Upon dropping below 50% maximum health , you are healed for 30% maximum health over 3 seconds (45 second cooldown, reset upon death). View augment details | Gold | T4 | 41.89% | 0.23% | 74 |
Replace a summoner spell with Feel the Burn . Feel the Burn: Casts both Exhaust and Ignite on all enemy champions within 800 units, with the former having its slow strength increased to 50% and the latter modified to deal 70 – 410 (based on level) true damage over the duration. This effect counts as a Burn source. View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 40.26% | 0.24% | 77 |
Casting your ultimate grants you invulnerability for 2 seconds (8 second cooldown). View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 38.96% | 0.24% | 77 |
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 | 38.56% | 0.47% | 153 |
获得?技能急速(40%%i:scaleCrit%)。 View augment details | Silver | T4 | 38.14% | 0.36% | 118 |
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 | 35.09% | 0.35% | 114 |
Damaging enemies with your ultimate ability polymorphs them into harmless critters for 2 seconds, during which their base movement speed is reduced by 60 , and disarms them for the same duration (15 second cooldown per target). View augment details | Prismatic | T4 | 33.64% | 0.33% | 107 |
Basic attacks that critically strike apply on-hit effects an additional time. Additionally, gain 25% critical strike chance . View augment details | Gold | T4 | 33.11% | 0.47% | 151 |
Gain Shaco's Backstab , Deceive and Hallucinate's explosion. Replace a summoner spell with Deceive . Passive - Backstab: Your basic attacks deal 20 – 35 (based on level) (+ 50% bonus AD) (+ 35% AP) bonus physical damage on-hit when hitting an enemy from behind. Active - Deceive: Become invisible for up to 3 seconds and blink to the target location within 400 units after a 0. 125 -second delay. Your next basic attack while in stealth deals 100 (+ 150% bonus AD) (+ 55% AP) bonus physical damage , increased to [ 155 (+ 232. 5 % bonus AD) (+ 85. 25 % AP) bonus physical damage ] if Backstab was applied (45 second cooldown). Passive - Hallucinate Death: Upon your death, release an explosion in a 350 radius of your death location, dealing 25% of target's maximum health true damage to enemies within. Additionally, you deploy a box at the location of your death that instantly fears nearby enemies for 1 second. This box does not attack but lasts for 3 seconds. View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 61.40% | 0.18% | 57 |
获得魄罗之王的弹跳!魄罗之王的弹跳:变形为【魄罗之王】3秒!你现在处于不可阻挡和幽灵状态。获得?伤害减免和?移动速度,但被沉默且无法攻击。此外,每1秒都会弹跳,在着陆时对附近的敌方英雄们造成?物理伤害和击退。【魄罗之王】的每次施放仅能对同一敌人造成一次击退。已防止的伤害:?已造成的伤害:?被弹跳的敌人数:? View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 48.44% | 0.20% | 64 |
Gain 60% bonus movement speed towards enemy champions below 40% of their maximum health . View augment details | Silver | T5 | 46.77% | 0.19% | 62 |
Gain the Aftershock and Glacial Augment keystone runes. View augment details | Gold | T5 | 46.15% | 0.20% | 65 |
Surrounds you in flames, causing you to apply a Burn every second to enemy champions within 500 units for 3 seconds that deals magic damage equal to [ 0. 6 6 % of your maximum health per second.] This Burn stacks infinitely and refreshes with each application. View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 45.28% | 0.16% | 53 |
Automatically attach a bomb to yourself that detonates after 5 seconds, creating an explosion that deals true damage equal to 20% of the target's maximum health to enemies within 350 units and knocks them up for 0. 75 seconds (25 second cooldown). View augment details | Silver | T5 | 40.91% | 0.20% | 66 |
Gain a modified Hand of Baron , which only grants 25% increased adaptive force and greatly empowers nearby allied minions . View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 38.98% | 0.18% | 59 |
Convert all of your ability power into bonus attack damage at a rate of 1 bonus attack damage per 1. 66 ability power . Additionally, increase your total attack damage by 15% . View augment details | Silver | T5 | 37.04% | 0.17% | 54 |
Replace a summoner spell with Laser Heal . Laser Heal: Channel for up to 2. 5 seconds to project an energy beam in the target direction, during which you can steer the beam in the direction of the cursor. The beam heals you and allies within for 200 – 550 (based on level) (+ 70% AP) (+ 50% bonus health) and deals 100 – 350 (based on level) (+ 50% AP) magic damage to enemies within, both over the duration. Enemies hit are also slowed by 20%. Laser Heal can be recast during the channel to end it early. Healing granted by the laser counts as self-healing. View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 35.71% | 0.17% | 56 |
Gain ( 250 / 150) bonus attack range. View augment details | Prismatic | T5 | 35.48% | 0.19% | 62 |
Mel Skill Combos
Extracted from the skill order guide
R > W > Q > E (Heavy W Augments)
R > E > Q > W (Defensive/Sustain Augments)
Mel Counters
Counters and threats extracted from the matchup guide
Counters
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Read counter detailsMel Team Comp Highlights
Partner patterns extracted from the team comp guide
Core Team Functions Mel Needs
Reliable Engage: Someone must start the fight so enemies use their cooldowns on Mel’s threat zone.
Synergy Mechanism: Malphite’s Unstoppable Force provides a massive knock-up that gathers the enemy team. While they are airborne or recovering, Mel can layer her control and damage on a stationary target cluster. Combo: Malphite engages with R. As enemies land, Mel uses her zone control to catch them trying to flash or dash away. If the enemy team tries to burst Malphite down during his follow-up, Mel’s reflection mechanics can punish that damage output. Best Scenario: The enemy team is grouped on a point or standing behind a single tank. Malphite hits a multi-man knock-up, and Mel deletes the backline while they are disabled. Enemy Answer: The enemy team spreads vertically before the engage or buys Zhonya’s/Stopwatch to stall the combo. A support like Janna or Alistar can knock Malphite away after the ult to prevent the follow-up. Failure Risk: If Malphite misses his R or engages too deep without backup, Mel cannot physically reach the fight in time to help. She gets kited while Malphite dies alone. Recovery: Mel should hold her own escape or defensive cooldown until Malphite’s engage is confirmed. If he misses, play for the reset and poke from a distance rather than overcommitting.
2. Yasuo (High Value)
Synergy Mechanism: Any knock-up Mel or other allies provide sets up Yasuo’s Last Breath. Once Yasuo suspends the team, Mel’s delayed abilities or zones become impossible to dodge. Combo: Mel lands a knock-up or displacement on the frontline. Yasuo instantly Rs. While the enemy team is suspended in the air, Mel places her maximum damage zone directly on the pile. Best Scenario: The enemy team is running a melee-heavy composition that wants to stack on top of each other. Yasuo’s armor penetration combined with Mel’s burst melts tanks and squishies alike. Enemy Answer: Point-and-click crowd control ruins Yasuo. If the enemy has a Lissandra or Vi, they can suppress Yasuo the moment he goes in, leaving Mel with a dead partner and a lost fight. Failure Risk: Yasuo dives too early before Mel is in range to follow up. He gets burst down instantly in Mayhem’s high-damage environment, leaving Mel alone against five enemies. Recovery: Mel must position aggressively but safely—close enough to act the moment Yasuo commits. If Yasuo dies instantly, use disengage tools to retreat to the tower and reset.
3. Braum (Strong Value)
Synergy Mechanism: Braum’s Unbreakable (E) absorbs projectiles coming from the enemy backline. This allows Mel to step forward and use her abilities without getting chipped down. His passive stun also sets up kills. Combo: Braum raises his shield to block the initial poke wave. Mel steps forward to land her own poke. When an enemy gets too close, Braum applies passive stacks, and Mel follows with damage to trigger the stun. Best Scenario: Playing against long-range poke mages like Ziggs, Lux, or Varus. Braum eats the damage, and Mel reflects or returns fire. Enemy Answer: Flanking assassins or divers who ignore the shield. Zed or Talon can jump over Braum and target Mel directly. The shield does not stop point-blank threats. Failure Risk: Braum looks to engage with Q or flash-R but misses, leaving the backline exposed. If the shield is down, Mel has no defense. Recovery: Mel should track Braum’s shield cooldown. When it’s down, play further back. If Braum misses an engage, do not try to salvage it; just reset the wave and wait for cooldowns.
4. Orianna (Strong Value)
Synergy Mechanism: Orianna places her ball on Mel. This gives Mel a threat radius around her body. If enemies dive Mel, Orianna can R instantly for a shockwave, and Mel can layer her own control on top. Combo: Mel plays forward with the ball on her head. When the enemy engages, Orianna ults to pull them together. Mel immediately follows with her own area control to keep them locked in the damage zone. Best Scenario: Fighting in narrow corridors or around objectives where the enemy has limited room to dodge. The combined zone control creates a "no-go" area. Enemy Answer: High-mobility champions who can dash out of the shockwave before Mel’s abilities land. Champions like Ezreal or Katarina can blink away from the kill zone. Failure Risk: Miscommunication. If Mel moves out of range while Orianna tries to ult, the combo whiffs. Both mages are also squishy; a hard engage can kill them before they press buttons. Recovery: Use voice chat or pings to sync the ult. If the combo fails, both champions have decent disengage tools. Turn and run, then reset for the next wave.
5. Leona (Moderate Value) Leona offers a different angle: aggressive lockdown. She is a dive buddy who can isolate a target for Mel to delete.
Mel ARAM Mayhem vs ARAM
Key mode differences extracted from the ARAM comparison guide
| Focus | Normal ARAM | ARAM: Mayhem | Takeaway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Role and Identity | Mel sits in the backline, weaving abilities to chip down enemies before fights. Her role is consistent damage and disruption, not burst. | With damage augments or ability haste options, she can become a primary engage tool or devastating burst mage who starts fights or deletes squishy targets. | Adapt your role based on augments; you may become the primary engage or burst carry. |
| Skill Order Priority | You usually max your primary damage or wave-clear tool first, trusting the linear scaling without needing to adjust. | Rewards breaking standard rules. If an augment empowers a specific ability with slows, resets, or extra projectiles, prioritize that skill to abuse the mechanic. | Check your first augment before locking in skill order; max the augmented ability. |
| Early Game Tempo | Mel has a slow ramp-up where you farm, poke, and wait for items to come online before fighting effectively. | Gold and experience flow faster, and the first tower push happens before you would finish your first item in standard mode. | Passive scaling loses when games end at 15 minutes; contest early. |
| Build Path Flexibility | You build for consistent stats like ability power, mana, and cooldown reduction to scale steadily throughout the match. | Augments can make certain stats redundant. If you gain massive ability haste from an augment, building more haste items is a waste. | Let the augment dictate the build; avoid copying standard ARAM builds blindly. |
| Snowball Aggression | Snowball is used primarily to dodge or reposition, serving as a utility tool rather than a primary engage option. | Snowball becomes a win condition. You can use it to start fights if you have a defensive augment or burst combo ready. | Use Snowball offensively to engage; respect enemy Snowballs as lethal threats. |
| Teamfight Spacing | Spacing is about staying at max range and kiting back, maintaining consistent distance from threats throughout fights. | Spacing is dynamic based on augment threats. Enemies with dash or reset augments can close gaps instantly, changing what 'safe range' means. | Track dangerous enemy augments and position dynamically; safe range constantly shifts. |
Champion Analysis
Role / Current performance
Mel the Soul's Reflection functions as a protective and control support in ARAM: Mayhem, distinguished by her unique ability to reflect enemy projectiles. Her strategic identity centers on defensive playmaking, using her Mirror Reflection to turn enemy aggression back against opponents while shielding allies from harm. This reflect mechanic defines her role as one of the most strategically-minded supports available, rewarding players who can read enemy intentions and time their abilities precisely. Her core advantage in the single-lane environment comes from W, Mirror Reflection, which serves dual purposes of protecting teammates and counter-attacking. Successful use of this ability requires careful timing to intercept key enemy projectiles, making awareness and anticipation essential skills for effective play. The ability transforms enemy offensive pressure into opportunities for retaliation, giving Mel strong defensive utility that scales with player skill. Beyond her signature reflect, Mel provides additional tools for team protection and crowd control. Her E offers mobility combined with shielding, allowing her to reposition and safeguard priority allies when threats emerge. Her R delivers area-of-effect crowd control, enabling her to lock down multiple enemies and set up follow-up damage from teammates. Her Q contributes area damage to round out her kit. Mel's practical value comes with notable limitations. She deals low damage compared to other champions, making her reliant on team coordination to convert her defensive plays into kills. Her fragility requires careful positioning, as she cannot afford to take extended damage while setting up her abilities. The precision timing demanded by her reflect mechanic means that mistimed abilities waste their potential and leave allies vulnerable. Her strengths include practical reflect utility, useful shielding, strong crowd control on her ultimate, and overall solid protective capabilities. However, players must account for her weaknesses: limited damage output, vulnerability when caught, the requirement for precise timing on her core ability, and dependence on coordinated team follow-up. Mel the Soul's Reflection rewards strategic thinking and game awareness, offering substantial defensive value to teams that can capitalize on her ability to redirect enemy pressure.
Core Tips
Long-form tips / Play pattern
Mel is a control mage who dictates pace through projectile spam and zone denial rather than diving into the enemy team. In the early game, establish position behind your own melee minions and use basic abilities to harass enemies when they step up to farm or poke. Avoid chasing kills into their tower early, as your damage output is high enough to force enemies low without overcommitting. When your team has a strong engage tank, save follow-up crowd control until after the initial engagement lands, then drop zone abilities on the enemy backline to cut off their retreat path. If your team lacks engage, play patiently by chipping away at enemy health until they recall, then use the numbers advantage to push the tower. The single lane in ARAM leaves Mel vulnerable to flanks if standing too far forward. Stay near your side of the bridge, using lane width to angle skillshots while staying slightly off-center to maintain room for dodging incoming Snowballs or linear skillshots. Against hook champions, position behind your tankiest teammate and treat them as a shield. Against long-range poke enemies, rhythmically dodge their patterns while returning fire, moving between casts to break their prediction rhythm. Mark/Dash serves as Mel's primary escape tool and only real gap-closer for aggressive plays. Avoid using Snowball to start fights unless diving a low-health target with team support. When an assassin commits, wait for their dash animation, then Snowball to a distant ally or minion to waste their cooldown window. Snowball can also check fog of war before face-checking. For target priority, hit whatever is closest and most vulnerable rather than tunneling on enemy carries. Prioritize enemies who have used major defensive cooldowns, and avoid walking past threatening bruisers to reach squishy targets. Mel excels at punishing enemy aggression. When engaged upon, turn and cast zone control abilities directly on the engage point to create a kill zone that punishes enemies for committing. Against dive compositions, save impactful crowd control for the diver until they commit to their ability, then layer damage the moment they become stationary. Control the wave to control health relics, pushing aggressively when ahead to deny relic access, or letting the wave come closer when behind to farm safely under tower and catch over-aggressive dives. Diving requires setup, as Mel should not tank tower shots. Let your tank initiate while you chain crowd control, or use long-range abilities to finish low targets without taking shots. Be extremely careful diving against teams with strong disengage who can knock you back into tower range. Mayhem augments change power spikes significantly, with offensive augments enabling aggressive play to proc effects frequently, defensive augments allowing closer positioning and liberal trading, and weak augments requiring standard poke fundamentals. When behind, focus entirely on wave clearing to prevent effective sieging and wait for enemies to overextend, as one successful catch can swing gold balance and relieve pressure while your utility remains relevant even when down in gold.
Read full guidePlaystyle Guide
Playstyle / Team structure
Mel the Soul's Reflection begins the game as a fragile champion who must respect her range limitations while providing strong zone control. During the early levels, position near or just behind the caster minions and use basic attacks alongside low-cooldown abilities to chip enemies when they step forward. Avoid overextending for poke, as her early mana pool and defensive stats are unforgiving. Stay mid-to-back and let the frontline absorb the first wave of aggression while moving sideways to dodge linear skillshots. The trading rhythm involves poking when enemy cooldowns are down, stepping forward for quick trades when opponents miss key abilities, then retreating. Avoid extended fights before unlocking the ultimate. Snowball should be saved primarily as an escape or a setup for guaranteed kills rather than random poke. Use it to confirm kills on stunned or overextended low-health targets, then immediately reposition to safety. Augments that provide sustain or bonus damage help win short trades when triggered deliberately rather than on cooldown. Push lightly for wave control but avoid hard-shoving without vision, as pushed waves invite ganks from side brushes. If ahead, pressure enemies under their tower, zone them off health relics, and deny farm. If behind, concede ground, let the wave come, and focus on safe poke while waiting for team crowd control before committing. Once the ultimate is online, Mel transitions into a playmaker with a significant damage spike and crucial teamfight utility. Position slightly behind the frontline, close enough to follow up on engages but far enough to avoid flash-engage combos. Stay within range of support or tank allies, kite toward the team if dived, and never chase into unwarded darkness. Look for picks when enemies misposition by unleashing full combos, or chip the enemy frontline to soften them for later. Snowball becomes a lethal gap-closer for reaching enemies knocked up or stunned by teammates, or for quick repositioning to minions. Avoid Snowballing into five enemies unless cleaning up. In the late game, mistakes cost the game. Mel's value lies in catching enemies out and delivering burst while remaining vulnerable to hard engage. Positioning becomes the highest priority, orbiting around the team's main tank or peeler at a distance that forces enemies to burn gap-closers. Every ability should contribute to a kill or save. Save the ultimate for the start of teamfights to delete a priority target, or use it to counter-engage when enemies dive. Snowball serves as a finisher for fleeing low-health enemies or a desperate reposition to escape dives. Push as a unit, clear waves quickly, and never get caught alone. If ahead, force the enemy to defend by diving together on the same target. If behind, defend the inhibitor tower, clear super minions, and look for a catch on an overconfident enemy carry, as one well-placed ultimate can swing a lost game.
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Strengths / Weaknesses
Mel the Soul's Reflection operates as a control mage whose effectiveness shifts dramatically based on whether she is ahead or behind. When playing from ahead, Mel transforms into an oppressive zone controller who can permanently threaten the enemy's frontline approach once she has sufficient mana sustain and ability haste. The primary strategy involves denying vision and space, using zone control abilities to cut off enemy access to healing relics. A lead allows Mel to chip enemies down over time rather than taking risky all-in fights, forcing opponents to choose between taking free damage or abandoning the wave entirely. The trigger condition for pressing an advantage is having a completed core item while the enemy frontline is below 70% health. At this point, Mel should zone enemies off their wave and relic spawns to deny recovery resources, forcing them to engage from a disadvantageous position or lose the tower incrementally. When ahead, Mel must avoid overextending without vision and should never face-check brushes, instead using abilities to check fog of war. Playing just outside the enemy's engage range forces them to walk through damage to reach her. A critical mistake to avoid is chasing kills into the enemy base entrance. When enemies retreat to inhibitor towers, the correct play is to reset, buy items, heal up, and return with full resources. Patience closes out games, and greed for low-percentage kills can result in giving away shutdown gold bounties. When playing from behind, Mel cannot function as a primary aggressor and must shift her mindset from killing enemies to preventing them from killing her team. She becomes a disengage tool and punishment engine for enemy mistakes. The trigger condition for defensive play is the enemy having a clear path to the tower or a significant health advantage on the frontline. Mel should play for wave clearance and counter-engages, never walking past her own minion wave. If the enemy dives the tower, her job is to make the dive as painful as possible by waiting for enemies to burn their gap-closers before committing defensive cooldowns. Panicking and using everything immediately leaves no tools to save herself or the carry. Augments that provide utility, healing, or defensive stats become essential when behind. Mel must reposition constantly and never stand still, as a stationary Mel is an easy target. Kiting backward around the tower allows her to punish enemies who ignore her to hit the tower, or lead away enemies who focus her, buying time for teammates. The biggest risk when behind is desperation, and attempting hero plays by diving the enemy backline will likely result in instant death without the damage to secure a kill. The recovery plan involves holding disruption abilities until enemies are deep in tower range, peeling for the highest-damage teammate, securing takedowns on overextended enemies, and pushing the wave just enough to reset safely. Stalling the game naturally shrinks the gold gap, and one good defensive fight can swing momentum back to neutral.
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Mel the Soul's Reflection brings a unique playstyle to ARAM: Mayhem centered around her passive ability, Soul's Reflection, which defines her entire approach to the mode. When enemies cast abilities near her, she generates stacks of Reflection, and at max stacks, her next basic attack or ability fires a barrage of mirror shards at the target. This serves as her primary poke and wave-clear tool, and in Mayhem's constant ability spam environment, she generates these stacks incredibly fast simply by existing near teamfights. The shards fan out slightly, making them efficient for clearing minion waves, but against champions, players need to be close enough for most shards to connect or use the ability on targets locked down by crowd control, as firing from max range often causes shards to miss moving targets. Her Q, Mirror Shot, functions as her reliable linear damage tool with moderate cooldown that becomes spam-able in Mayhem. It hits the first enemy in its path, making it easy to land in the narrow ARAM lane but also meaning minions often block shots, requiring sideways positioning to find angles around the wave. Missing Q early leaves her vulnerable with no immediate threat to stop engages, so backing off until it returns is essential. Her W, Shimmering Veil, provides a protective shield that absorbs incoming damage or reflects a portion back at attackers, serving as her survival ticket against Mayhem's high burst damage. Timing is critical, as activating too early wastes duration while activating too late means taking damage before the shield applies. This ability works as a bait tool, allowing her to absorb enemy combos and counter-attack while opponents are on cooldown. Her E, Refraction or Displacement, serves as her primary utility spell for repositioning and creating space, functioning as both an escape and setup tool. This is her most punishing ability to waste, as using it forward in dangerous situations leaves her exposed to punishment from gap-closing champions. Her ultimate, Mirror Realm or Soul Crush, is a high-impact area denial or single-target nuke that forces enemies to split or secures key kills. The narrow ARAM bridge makes well-placed ultimates nearly inescapable without Flash. Whiffing R is devastating, leaving her with zero threat potential for a long window, so ensuring vision or setup before casting is essential. For leveling priority, maxing Q first provides damage and poke consistency, taking E second for reduced cooldown on escape and utility, and maxing W last since killing enemies faster often outweighs shield values. Starting Q at level 1 contests the bush and pokes immediately, taking E at level 2 for safety against early engages, and W at level 3 completes her defensive suite.
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Mel the Soul's Reflection is a deceptive champion in Mayhem ARAM who appears to be a pure mage but actually derives her power from timing, positioning, and reflection mechanics that turn enemy cooldowns against them. Most losses occur when players treat her like a standard artillery mage or panic when divers approach. Mechanical mistakes primarily involve mistiming abilities. Casting primary damage the moment an enemy appears wastes the reflection window, as opponents can sidestep the telegraph and then engage freely. The correct approach is holding abilities until enemies commit to skillshots or enter predictable paths, using reflection threat to zone them off the wave or force cooldown waste on minions. When abilities miss, backing off immediately and playing around the team is essential rather than forcing follow-up plays with nothing available. Spamming abilities into heavy minion waves results in blocked projectiles, zero champion damage, and mana exhaustion. Players should clear waves first or angle shots around edges, prioritizing sightlines before fishing for champion damage. Using defensive reflection or mobility tools purely for damage leaves Mel exposed when assassins or divers engage. The safety tool must stay ready when threats lack vision or when enemy engage tools remain available. Ignoring passive and reflection mechanics to play as a generic mage forfeits significant damage and utility, allowing opponents to target Mel without punishment. Players should actively track enemy skillshots and position to catch and reflect high-damage or crowd-control projectiles. Decision mistakes often involve poor positioning. Standing in the front half of the lane attempting to duel divers or assassins results in getting caught and burst down, as Mel cannot win most melee matchups once enemies close the gap. Staying behind frontline teammates and using range and reflection to support them is the correct approach. Chasing low-health enemies deep into enemy territory leads to overextension, collapse, and giving away kills. Instead, players should chip enemies down, force recalls or deaths, then reset or take objectives. Ignoring enemy composition and playing identically against divers versus mages makes Mel predictable and exploitable. Against dive, playing closer to peel and holding defensive tools is correct, while against mages, seeking reflection angles punishes their skillshots. Using Snowball to engage into the enemy team lands Mel in the middle of five enemies with no escape, resulting in instant death. Snowball should reposition, dodge skillshots, or follow teammate engages. Building full damage without defensive utility against hard-engage or burst threats results in being one-shot before contributing. Mixing in defensive items or augments ensures survivability, and players should adapt builds when repeatedly dying. Mel rewards patience, awareness, and adaptability, outplaying opponents who underestimate her reflection mechanics.
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What is Mel's main role in ARAM: Mayhem? Mel is a control mage who excels at zoning enemies and turning their damage back against them. You want to position at mid-range where you can land abilities without getting dove. Her value comes from sustained pressure rather than one-shot burst, so play around your cooldowns and let the damage stack up over a fight. How does Mel's reflection mechanic actually work? When enemies hit you with abilities, Mel stores a portion of that damage and fires it back as a projectile. You need to stay in range of the target for the reflected damage to connect, so don't instantly run away after getting hit. This mechanic punishes enemies who mindlessly spam spells into your face, but it won't save you from getting one-shot by heavy burst. Should I play Mel aggressively or passively? Play reactively aggressive. You want enemies to throw abilities at you so your reflection mechanic triggers, but you can't just stand there and tank everything. Step forward to bait spells, dodge the dangerous ones, and let your reflection punish the rest. If you play too far back, you lose pressure and your reflection never activates.
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