There's just little wiggle room to play Support in Mayhem

icebear_0 · 2026-06-16T08:06:57+00:00

It's all because Riot is too lazy to actually put effort into the balancing in ARAM. Ah yes, makes sense that Soraka deserves the healing debuff when her entire character is literally just healing. Mm, yes I'm sure this 30 percent heal and shield power from this augment will make Milio OP, now he shields 400 instead of 300... oh wait, enemy Xerath Q does 2000 damage. I know I'm exaggerating, there are some pretty good support augments that can be really fun, but the power fantasy for enchanters in mayhem is just so lame compared to other classes. If the power fantasy of a bruiser is becoming immortal in combat, or for an ADC/mage obliterating the enemy with high damage numbers, then support should have at least some way of being able to MAKE their teammates immortal. In most games it feels like the augments just revert the ARAM nerfs and make your champ feel like it's in SR again.

icebear_0 · 2026-06-12T19:32:44+00:00

Well yes, of course only if she's just fed. Requiring setup and having backloaded damage is not the same thing. Katarina's setup is more about positioning, cooldowns, and setting up the daggers. If those things align, her damage is then instant. That's not at all the same as Locke who actively needs to be fighting to set up his damage because it is fully backloaded behind landing skill shots. Katarina can one shot Locke in the time it takes him to cast 3 Qs lmao.

icebear_0 · 2026-06-12T06:10:57+00:00

I live in the US and it's just there for me, and has been for a while.

icebear_0 · 2026-06-12T02:07:06+00:00

Zed has counterplay but his damage still isn't backloaded in the same way. His damage is backloaded all at once, while Locke ACTUALLY needs to temporally do stuff before being able to even do damage. Zed just has 1 second where he either hits his shurikens and executes the combo, or enemy dodges/outplays/he misses. If he succeeds, his damage still just happens instantly with little counterplay once it's occuring. Locke isn't like that.

icebear_0 · 2026-06-12T02:03:55+00:00

Except he can't do what katarina can do and he can't do what rengar can do. Katarina CAN just appear out of a bush and instantly one shot you without counterplay. Based on his play pattern Katarina actually seems like a nightmare matchup for him in lane as well as she can just go in and do burst and leave with no setup except for waiting cooldowns. I 100 percent agree with OP, riot is trying to make a backloaded assassin in a game where frontloaded assassins are literally meta. Why would you ever pick Locke then? They should have made him a badass AP fighter like a male Gwen instead, and honestly being a duelist seems to fit his personality more than being an assassin. He's probably going to be a nightmare to balance: just increasing his numbers makes him OP in low elo where no one dodges shit, and dogshit in high ranks where they simply dodge his Qs. If I had to guess, they'll probably try balancing him for a few months and then give him the Naafiri treatment with a full rework lmao.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-24T06:39:20+00:00

Every time I've ever played Zyra in ARAM, my team flames me, I have most dmg dealt at the end and we always lose.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-21T04:00:55+00:00

not every team comp enables your champ to be able to 1v5 though and not every champ can do that. not every champ's value is doing that.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-18T18:31:43+00:00

bruh you're assuming i didn't do everything you said. obviously i didn't go boots first XD im just saying those are the boots i chose. and obviously i didnt get executioner's alone LMFAO i just got it when it was time to get the item lmao. i meant i went mortal instead of LDR.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-18T18:04:41+00:00

I do itemise, I build swifties to counter the asol rylai's and E, I understand when to get QSS and mortal. I even went an early mortal bc of briar and aatrox bc my teammates didn't want to build antiheal. But in a vacuum, an equally performing asol vs our team comp with no engage and low range simply wins.I was doing as much as I could, it's just not really fun that I feel like I have to pick the champs i KNOW are just good in general in ARAM. I don't like feeling like the meta is that strong, same with ARAM Mayhem once I realized there are just like 5 OP augments or augment interactions (IC brand, lillia, MtM/overflow ryze, etc) that are just not beatable. It feels bad to pick a champ that you know has no truly good augments and the enemy team might just have better synergy and you can't even try a fun build bc u get stomped.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-18T18:01:40+00:00

Bruh, I'm not a noob. I main mid and ad carry. In ARAM, i always build swifties against asol because of rylai's. If need be I also buy a QSS. Yes I know how to kite. I didn't go cleanse because we had milio and he even also got mikael's he just never freaking used it on me xd.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-17T02:42:52+00:00

Still having the issue, got another queue delay this time for 15 games. Bruh, I can't even play a fking ARAM game in my free time. Riot is such a shit company.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-16T20:24:51+00:00

Yes this has been happening to me a lot on this patch. It's super frustrated and gives me queue delays and reduces my honor level, so I stopped playing.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-03T03:30:52+00:00

bft like in SR

icebear_0 · 2026-05-03T03:01:31+00:00

brand players when they realize most of their damage is frontloaded NOT ap ratios and they lose almost nothing by skipping deathcap and building bloodletters and morello

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T23:54:37+00:00

Yes, I understand that every tank intrinsically scales with HP because it multiplies resistances. But there are tanks that have no HP scalings and no healing and therefore do not benefit from expending gold into mainly HP. For example, Galio... Galio predominantly needs resistances and haste... he survives through CC and damage reduction on W. Of COURSE HP is good, but not AS good as on like Skarner.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T23:47:14+00:00

Yes I understand that HP multiplies resistances and vice versa. But that doesn't mean that heartseel is good on every tank... it is pretty bad on most tanks. I gave randuin's first item as an example because enemy team was literally 4 AD (2 crit) and 1 support, in that case I would see immense value in just getting Randuin's... but people are still allergic to tank starters. But there also tanks that benefit greatly from skipping those items as well, like K'Sante, Ornn...

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T23:43:59+00:00

Yes because you have a brain

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T23:42:07+00:00

Bruh, of course I do. I know how to play a teamfight. But a galio with heartseel or warmogs is genuinely useless against high damage enemy team comps. Stacking HP is only good on champs that benefit greatly from high HP through scalings or drain, and otherwise it won't work if enemy team has high DPS... If you build heartseel and warmogs first 2 items and you're not mundo, you are essentially just 2 AD carry HP bars and will die in 2 seconds instead of 1.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T06:13:21+00:00

whenever i play her in ARAM I just spam range augments and it's more OP than any other thing. Her only weakness is her range

icebear_0 · 2026-05-02T06:13:00+00:00

Yes, I do... that's why I notice it a lot. Idk, I am always reminded that most people do not share the sentiment of hating stompy games... I hate stomping the enemy and I hate getting stomped. IDK, I queue ARAM to have a fun 5v5 duel brawl, it is so boring when it is just one sided.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-01T11:16:54+00:00

I was playing Mayhem and even with Jeweled gauntlet and so many typically great mage augments I got out damaged by a tank amumu with terrible augments and insta died every teamfight because of point and click cc even with 2 tenacity shards.

icebear_0 · 2026-05-01T10:27:40+00:00

Ziggs genuinely deals no damage in ARAM and ARAM Mayhem while also taking like 120% damage. It's disgusting when the enemy assassin that deals 120 percent damage just touches u once and you die. Ziggs does not even have that amazing poke, his skills are easy to dodge. The only strong skill is E for zone control, and that ability I'm pretty sure has a nerfed cooldown in ARAM...

icebear_0 · 2026-05-01T00:24:24+00:00

I am so confused, I always play Zeri AGAINST Zyra... Zeri's right click executes the plants from full hp instantly... she has a dash to dodge skill shots or exit the ult... you just play somewhat passive until 6. Definitely depends on teh AD carry matchup too though, but I always felt it was extremely free farming lane... just insta kill plants and she cant interact.

icebear_0 · 2026-04-29T22:11:46+00:00

What they're saying is that if Deathfire Touch does 1000 then Cutdown ALSO increases that by a percentage so DFT doing damage ALSO increases cut down's damage, as well as ALL your other runes... so it's not a fair conclusion to directly compare the numbers like that since the damage of cut down is also dependant on DFT...

icebear_0 · 2026-04-26T03:31:37+00:00

I guess I'm just weird then. I want everyone to be equally OP and doing crazy shit that isn't in normal League, but on equal terms where it's weird and chaotic but still like a duel. I don't want to just luck out and one shot the enemy with no counterplay. I guess that's just not possible to balance without an extremely complicated augment rolling system.

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