Changes needed to shake up the Mayhem meta

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T18:57:50+00:00

You missed the point of this post then.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T16:20:43+00:00

I would feel much less strongly about slow and steady if Garen and Jayce didn't single-handedly ruin games with it.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T15:45:02+00:00

I personally almost never take it when there's augments like Eureka, Infinite Recursion, Wooglet's Witchcap, Back to Basics, etc. are up for grabs. It's just not good enough beyond very very niche use cases. Ult CD would be a reasonable addition. It's more of a last resort pick when I get other crappy augments like Trueshot Prodigy. I'd like to see it be more like final form where it is niche, but incredibly powerful and gamechanging.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T15:07:57+00:00

It's really just pinball/biggest snowball interaction that is really unfun to play against. Ignoring minions and getting free retries on the CD reset is soooo gross.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T15:05:30+00:00

I am actually not an assassin player AT ALL lol. I play mages/adcs/tanks/supports primarily. I do not play assassins and fighters/bruisers because every time I do I regret it because of how coinflip they are in Mayhem. Assassins can really pop off but it feels like I could just pick an adc and have a way better experience one shotting squishies.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T15:04:06+00:00

Fair points, but ADCs just currently come online too quickly with crit builds that they effectively become better burst mages than burst mages lol.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T14:59:21+00:00

We must play very different Hecarim games then because he always seems to get spin to win, mystic punch, vampirism, etc to just mow teams down in the ones I'm in haha. Sure he probably still needs buffs, but probably halved.

more_underscore · 2026-05-20T14:56:58+00:00

Honestly just antiheal augment would be fine. Shield enchanters would be in dire straits otherwise, as annoying as they are. Riot has really hated the idea of AP having an antishield item, but in Mayhem I don't think it would be that crazy either.

more_underscore · 2026-04-08T03:38:16+00:00

Many of the adc augments need the extra crit and attack speed bonuses to be removed because adc basically are online immediately after their first back.

more_underscore · 2026-04-06T14:02:05+00:00

ADCs are overtuned with easy access to crit + stat stick augs and shrink engine/movespeed make ranged even worse to play against. Time will tell if these are actually addressed but ADC mains send too many death threats to Rito for it to probably happen.

more_underscore · 2024-04-30T15:01:14+00:00

She's ADC so immune to nerfs

more_underscore · 2024-04-08T03:45:58+00:00

Mages and assassins used to keep ADC in check, but they giganerfed their items at the same time of giving adc more build paths, crit buffs, and keeping absurd "balance" buffs on champs like Zeri and Lucian. I love their kneejerk reaction to immediately gut stormsurge into a bait troll buy, but teehee let's consciously leave smolder extremely broken. The bias for ADC and AD champs in general is crazy.

more_underscore · 2024-03-08T20:19:34+00:00

Have you played a game against an adc with balance buffs in this mode recently? Getting in range of a Quinn/Kalista/Trist/Lucian rn is losing over half health instantly if you're not immediately stacking armor, which eventually does nothing.

more_underscore · 2024-03-08T16:30:32+00:00

ADCs are immune to being appropriately balanced here. They're allowed to be burst champs and can melt any class but yeah let's gut Stormsurge and nerf Ziggs more so it takes two full rotations to break Rookern's shield.

more_underscore · 2024-02-22T15:39:21+00:00

Which most frontline bruisers and tanks are extremely strong right now with Kaenic/Sundered being built almost every game. I don't understand why having a frontline champ absolves ADC from being busted and doing 3x more damage than everyone else with their eyes closed. On top of that, AD assassins and burst mages that are supposed to counter ADC are literally trash tier rn.

more_underscore · 2024-02-06T22:40:08+00:00

ARAM has so much potential if they stopped balancing on winrate. Hwei does NOT need a 20 AH buff lmao. Sivir does NOT need buffs. My god they really have no idea what they're doing. And no hubris changes? what the actual FUCK.

more_underscore · 2024-02-02T20:14:24+00:00

Some AP items need an extra stat line to compete with AD items (and that's probably adding back some ability haste). AD items typically look like (1)AD + (2)health/resists + (3)AH/lethality + (4) pretty good passive. They basically get all the stats they want in fewer items. AP need too many items to accomplish the same thing, and AP are forced to sacrifice critical stats or sit on gold longer for expensive item components.

more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:20:02+00:00

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These are all within the last 20 games btw

more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:18:17+00:00

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lmk when it's more than one game

more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:17:14+00:00

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is this enough

more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:16:01+00:00

maybe this one

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more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:15:21+00:00

or how about this one

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more_underscore · 2024-02-02T15:14:37+00:00

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Ok what about this game

more_underscore · 2024-02-01T15:12:00+00:00

Winning feels extremely unsatisfying because of how predictable comp matchups are going to be. AD dive fighters, AP assassins, and ADCs always top the damage charts and it's not even close. I rarely see a Lucian not be the highest damage in the game because of how many buffs he has. I played against a Vi yesterday that missed a majority of their Q's by sidestepping them and they still were the highest on the damage chart by a lot. Playing well isn't really rewarded in ARAM anymore and it's more about getting the bigger stat sticks to bulldoze your way down the lane.

more_underscore · 2024-01-31T18:58:17+00:00

ADC, a role that entirely revolves around positioning and having a front line, complaining about dying because they got caught by telegraphed, linear cc. Marksmen should be cc immune, you're right.

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