Strategy Guide: [11.13] General ARAM Guide (Lengthy) by LReign

Introduction

Link to original guide: https://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/build/10-1-general-aram-guide-lengthy-533815

Most concepts and ideas still carry over, I'll mostly cover what has changed since that guide was last updated.

Dec 23 2020: I had added most of what I had in mind at the moment, but I'll probably be coming back and adding/changing things up still. Let me know if you have any questions or comments. But, for now, Happy Holidays & early Merry Christmas! (if you celebrate Christmas)

11.13

- NEW Item
the item stats itself are 90.67% gold efficient (according to wiki), but the passives are likely fairly insane. (unless the target deals true damage, e.g. & ) The enemy target has 20% reduced tenacity (at max stacks, but the stacks don't seem to have a reset...aside from swapping targets at your choice), you also take 30% reduced damage from your selected target. This item might be really unbalanced for ARAM...

Scenario 1: Master Yi is diving your backline, and you are playing an immobile ADC ( Ashe, Varus). You buy this item, to stop Master Yi from resetting and killing everyone in your backline due to you having 30% damage reduction when he tries to kill you. Additionally your Enchanted Crystal Arrow & Chain of Corruption roots/stuns him longer for your team to punish him diving you.
Scenario 2: You dive their backline as a damage dealer (e.g. Fiddlesticks, Morgana, Ekko, Jax, ...) and they can't kill you but you can CC them to death and kill them. Or, if they have multiple damage dealers, one of them won't deal damage to you.
Scenario 3: The more obvious scenario, you dive the backline as a CC diver (e.g. Amumu, Maokai, Leona, ...) and want 1 person to not deal damage to you.

...and I think that might show the problem...there's a realistic chance that everyone wants this item & I'm not sure if this is intended or not.

Balancing this item might be a little hard due to the 2 passives. If you want backliners to not build the item, you might need a nerfed version of the passives for Ranged Champions. Or, another alternative could be something like "to charge stacks take damage from other sources without dying (resets on death)" and "at max stacks: detonating on an enemy champion when CCing them reduces their tenacity for [X] seconds." or something.

NEW ITEM: - Please don't buy this item in ARAM.

- Initially I thought this item is not as good now...but after thinking about it a little more...this item might be really strong when used in combination with . If you use the active as soon as you land, it has a stronger and longer slow & more damaging active. The item is still really good, if not better, but the purpose/usage is different.

had its heal increased from 10 -> 15% max health, but lost its movement speed on takedowns.

is likely not as good as it was before (movement speed down from 60% -> 30%), and might be the go-to again. (especially since Renewer stacks up to 35% heal/shield power increase)

reduced to 9% max health if the user is ranged. The item is still likely very strong.

Mage Mythics (, and ) all have their combine costs lowered by 200 gold. Honestly...in terms of ARAM, I am not sure this was necessary & might end up being a problem.

I might update again, but these are just my initial thoughts.

11.12 (and 11.3-11.11)

This section is more of my point of view of what changed (and what hasn't) between 11.3 and 11.12, since there has been quite a few patches, w/ some observations (there's also a bunch of theorycrafts below):

MYTHICS

Goredrinker and Duskblade of Draktharr are both still strong. Duskblade of Draktharr will not always net you the most damage in teamfights, but will provide you the opportunity to get free picks or wipe a team off of its passive.
Although Moonstone Renewer & Shurelya's Battlesong both share the same stat line, I have been buying Shurelya's Battlesong more after the Mythic Passive & Unique passive change. Moonstone Renewer very likely would come out ahead in long/drawn-out fights, personally I favor having the option to make pro-active decisions that have more immediate & higher impact (especially if your team has more melees). Just in general, usually with Shurelya's Battlesong you are able to find picks and engages a lot easier.
Everfrost is likely my most purchased Mage mythic. (I still pick up Liandry's Torment into tanks and on burn/DoT champions) In addition to being able to buy Cosmic Drive second and have its passive activate, the utility that the active provides is kind of crazy. Having the extra CC can trade for an enemy summoner spell, help stop dives, or even could stop Duskblade of Draktharr Master Yi from resetting if timed properly. Although Luden's Tempest does still have a place, I'm not sure how often the enemy will have no dive on their team. (it could be useful when snowballing on AP assassins though)
Stridebreaker, honestly the engage potential with the active is pretty crazy now. Stridebreaker engages into certain teamcomps can instantly win or lose fights. Although I favor Goredrinker in general, due to a kind of "solo q" mentality & value of self-healing, if your team is willing to follow up your engages quickly then Stridebreaker will likely net greater results (on champions with large CC engages like Gnar or hooks like Darius). Though, it sounds like the active may not have a dash in the future.
Although Trinity Force definitely feels more like a bruiser item now, the item is still not gold efficient, won't scale as well as Divine Sunderer (the more I look at Divine Sunderer the more I think that it is too good, especially if you are looking to swap out your mythic late game at full build), and while strong during laning and splitpushing...there isn't really that in ARAM.
The other Mythics I kind of find myself buying in the same situations as from 11.3. Although be wary of buying Immortal Shieldbow into Serpent's Fang now.

LEGENDARY

I had heard that On-Hit was dead and Crit was taking over, but I'm not too sure...I need to do some more testing, but I'm pretty sure Guinsoo's Rageblade is still in a good spot.
Black Cleaver is probably in a decent spot at the moment as well, though I need to do more testing as well.
Frozen Heart is gold efficient, like it was last season, but still does not offer health.
Chempunk Chainsword is gold efficient. Chemtech Putrifier and Morellonomicon are very close to gold efficient and at around the same % gold efficient, so probably grab the one that is better for your situation game to game. Something to remember about Thornmail is that the 60% grievous wounds is only applied when immobilizing someone & is 40% otherwise.
Death's Dance is gold efficient.
Serpent's Fang is not gold efficient (sitting around 77%), but is really strong into shielding champions ( Karma) and shielding items due to the changes to the items passive.
Serylda's Grudge is gold efficient & Lord Dominik's Regards is less gold efficient than before, but is still gold efficient (it was really gold efficient before).
Titanic Hydra was changed to Bonus Health instead of Total, so is better off being bought later, like last or 2nd to last, which is fine because usually in ARAM if you are playing tank you want Resists and Health before buying Titanic Hydra.
I usually buy Warmog's Armor on tanks at 2nd item and maybe 3rd now, due to the passive activating earlier. (usually when you complete Warmog's Armor it is active)

RUNES

I've been recently opting more for Second Wind and Revitalize, over Unflinching and Conditioning due to defensive items not having as much resistances as before, as well as Unflinching only activating at low health now. Might still need to test Conditioning vs Second Wind more, but will probably continue with Second Wind and Revitalize

I'll update if I notice I missed anything, or forgot to add something...so pretty likely. And sorry for the delay!

Also, here is the playlist of some of the testing games I played & other fun games I had (think I listed this somewhere else, but I don't remember where):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1M25sedPzvN5T-iUnSVdRo1dJ94r-LgL

TheoryCraft - Goredrinker/On-Hit Kat

Runes:

CORE (Buy the first 3 in the order as needed):

/

SITUATIONAL:

/
/

(late game swap)

TheoryCraft - On-Hit AD

This build is highly experimental, and have only thought of it yesterday, so it needs a lot more testing.

(if you are not sure if you might go crit or not, you can take )

( if you can activate it)

CORE (Buy in order as needed)

/

SITUATIONAL

(might want to opt for this when using a champ that doesn't need attack speed)

Some ADs I want to try it on are:

Some other ones that I'm not sure it might be as good on, but could work:

TheoryCraft - Tank Akali

Runes:

CORE
/ /

/

SITUATIONAL

/

TheoryCraft - Bruiser Akali

WIP

Runes:

CORE

/

SITUATIONAL

(probably can swap out later, depending on how the build goes)

(option to swap out late game)

TheoryCraft - "Tank" / Bruiser Kat

This is also a highly experimental build that I pretty much just thought of today.

Runes:

Example End Build

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Item & Runes Changes

As of [10.25]:

TL;DR
bad, good (likely too good)
1 or both of &

The items, removal of orcale's extract and rune changes kind of threw ARAM into a kind of unstable state at the moment. -building champions seem really strong at the moment w/ the reset on takedowns & inability to see them especially. The item really should have the conditions old Duskblade had, with the need to remain stealth or unseen for the passive to activate...in my opinion, if the condition is there, then there will be at least a little bit of counterplay, instead of running into your team and wiping them while pretty much invisible or Alpha Striking the whole time. It would also help solve the problem of ADCs running the item & give the item more of an identity...it isn't realistic to the "dream" of being a stealthy /invisible assassin killing an entire squad if you are literally out of stealth running down your opponent.

One of the things that stands out the most with the changes in the items, is the lack of mana/mana regen. This is especially noticeable on mages, and the nerfs to /. (Old according to the wikia, had 20% CDR, 25% mana refund, the shield active, and more mana on completion)

Because of the nerfs to mana/mana regen items (if you aren't support), then or feels like a must-have. You could technically run both, but the trade off is the loss of which most likely means that you won't have omnivamp (which feels kind of bad as a mage, since you'll basically be relying solely on support healing & health relics to heal you up).

Also got hit slightly as well, since item CDR has been changed to item haste. It is still viable though w/ first item and healing your team repeatedly, it is especially strong with and .

Gold Efficient Items List (info/numbers from Wikia)

Mainly items to keep in mind for what you want to build first/as soon as possible. Usually you want to build, items when they are gold efficient, or when they provide the most value to you (unless you are buying them for the passive/active and/or they don't gain much value later on).

Numbers obtained from Wikia (https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Finished_item)

As of [10.25] (Alphabetical ordered)
Gold Efficient:
- w/o passive (102%) - 2300 gold cost / 135 - 211.09% (single ally at lvl 1) / 183.91 - 374.13% (4 allies at lvl 18)
- (128%) - 1100 gold cost
- (102%) - 3400 gold cost
- (112%) - 2900 gold cost
- (104.44%) - 900 gold cost
- (102.16%) - 2900 gold cost
- (102.88%) - 2600 gold cost / (131.96%)
- (126.09%) - 2300 gold cost
- (143.33%) - 3000 gold cost + 16.67% for every additional 100 AP
- (108.82%) - 3400 gold cost
- (106.24%) - 3300 gold cost
- (110.14%) - 2300 gold cost
- (102.39%) - 2300 gold cost / 191.74 - 229.57% if single ally is buffed lvl 1 / 325.76 - 420.33% if 4 allies buffed lvl 18
- (131.88%) - 2500 gold cost
- (100%) - 3000 gold cost
- (103.22%) - 2500 gold cost

Nearly Gold Efficient:
- w/o passive (99.6%) - 2500 gold cost
- (98.82%) - 3000 gold cost
- (95.16%) - 3100 gold cost - not counting the Stored Physical Dmg passive
- (99.75%) - 2700 gold cost
- (97.1%) - 2300 gold cost (157.21% when moving towards Worthy)
- (98.39%) - 3100 gold cost
- (96.06%) - 2500 gold cost (most gold efficient of the grievous wounds items)
- (83.06%) - 2500 gold cost / 94.12% when hitting an enemy / 134.12% when attacking 5 times
- (92.72%) - 3800 gold cost + 20.03% for every 100 AP
- (93.83%) - 2700 gold cost
- (96.36%) - 3000 gold cost
- (95.1%) - 3400 gold cost
- (95.37%) - 2700 gold cost
- (92.83%) - 3000 gold cost
- 93.71% (lvl 1 ) - 151.81% (lvl 18 )
- (95.16%) - 3100 gold cost (When auto attacking 115% lvl 1 - 167.42% lvl 18)

This is more to note that getting Mythics are not all immediately gold efficient, some may be better bought later on, like 2nd or 3rd item (if you are not getting the item mainly for the Mythic Item's passive/active - e.g. or )

MYTHICS:
- 90.91% (3300 gold cost) +12.82% for each legendary
- 79.64% (3200 gold cost) +4.17% for each legendary
- 77.5% (3200 gold cost) + 4.69% for each legendary
- 107.25% (3400 gold cost) + 9.6% for each legendary
- 86.98% (3200 gold cost) + 8.33% for each legendary
- 100% (3400 gold cost) + 3.49% for each legendary
- 109.85% (3300 gold cost) + 4.04% for each legendary
- 87.71% (3200 gold cost) + 4.86% for each legendary
- 99.26% (3400 gold cost) + 9.07% for each legendary
- 97.47% (2500 gold cost) + 13.05% for each legendary
- 108.82% (3400 gold cost) + 7.35% for each legendary
- 91.57% (3400 gold cost) + 3.92% for each legendary
- 88.27% (2500 gold cost) + 7.6% for each champion affected by AOE passive + 3.04% for each legendary
- 97.47% (2500 gold cost) + 5.33% for each legendary
- 87.71% (3200 gold cost) + 4.17% for each legendary
- 77.24% (3200 gold cost) + 0.78% for each legendary
- 101.17% (3200 gold cost) + 7.36% for each legendary
- 76.57% (2500 gold cost) + 3.95% for each legendary
- 100.51% (3300 gold cost) + 3.59% for each legendary
- 77.29% (3200 gold cost) + 4.17% for each legendary
- 87.01% (3333 gold cost) + 7.5% for each legendary
- 85.42% (3200 gold cost) + about 1.6979% for each legendary

NOTES:
- breaks even at about 17.5% more crit chance (37.5% crit chance)

- is immediately the most gold efficient Mythic support tank item, if its passive affects your entire team.

- is the most gold efficient support AP/support item if you can use the passive & stats. (I really think this item should only have +5 AP / legendary if it is meant to be a support item - putting it at 4.35% per legendary item)

- is the most gold efficient AP Mythic item 1st item and late game, if not counting .

- is the most gold efficient Tank Mythic item. (Locket is still technically more gold efficient by 10% late game, but the stats are spread)

- is the most gold efficient Brusier/Fighter Mythic item 1st item, is the most gold efficient late game.

- is the most gold efficient Mythic ADC item 1st item & late game.

- is the most gold efficient Mythic lethality item 1st item and late game.

- In term of gold value, (91.33%) > (79.61%)
- A lot of the support items are very gold efficient, e.g. , (Likely worth buying 1st/2nd item when going a support build)
- could be the most gold efficient item in the game if buffing 4 allies at lvl 18 (up to 420.33% gold efficient if allies can also use the AP). goes up to 374.13% gold efficiency.
- does not gain much value with each item, in terms of gold value, it is better to grab earlier if needed
- is not gold efficient immediately (77.71% not stacked, 119.44% fully stacked), unlike which is.
- (90.86%) vs. (76.24-101.06%)
- (93.83%) vs. (79.01%) vs. (78.07%, up to 102.9% at max momentum)
-On-hit is really gold efficient, and will hit spikes in power faster than Crit builds

THINGS I WANT TO TEST:
- Can you skip boots on ADC when building ? (likely in scenarios where survivablity isn't needed & where you are not building On-Hit)

- on melee AP champions (I tried a couple with melee AP champs and it actually felt pretty good, like if you Ulti w/ and root them in place for the rest of the combo, or rooting a bunch on top of your fished target, same with ulti)

Replays YT Playlist

I'll probably be uploading decent games, or games that highlight niche items that are good in certain situations here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1M25sedPzvN5T-iUnSVdRo1dJ94r-LgL

ADC Build Options

There are generally 3 builds I run in ARAM, I'll try to mention the tradeoffs you're making when I go over them.

Also, something to keep in mind, especially when going one of the other 2 builds (Crit or Lethality) building tier 2 boots early is likely worth it, if you are going up against high-burst champions or assassins on the enemy team. They will be one of the only defensive items you will be fitting into your build.

On-Hit (my usual go-to build for champions that are decent with this build):

Really versatile unlike Crit, which can be VERY straightforward when building
Very gold efficient items
Good survivability to burst due to having Wit's End (MR), defensive boots, and the option to go Death's Dance if necessary
Spikes at every item, which makes you a larger threat early

Cons:

Will likely lose to Crit later on
Less lifesteal
Slightly harder to kill tanks once they get resistences

General Starting items
2

General Core Items
(on & usually I skip this item for a more defensive item)

/

The last item is usually situational:
- A lot of physical dmg assassins are coming after you
- Really gold efficient, and probably one of the best pickups if your champ can utilize the AP and is safe enough to just want more damage to squishies or needs more Magic Damage since the tanks are itemizing Armor
- Is good if the enemy is itemizing a lot of health & you require more life steal in more extended fights
- Good if the enemy is stacking armor mostly & a little bit of health (now deals % missing health when the enemy is fully Carved)
- will AOE all on-hit to other targets, likely better against teams with lots of backline
- Need a little bit more survivability, since it provides Health, but you still need AOE on backline
- Need AOE on backline & abilities up a little faster, but need more lifesteal for extended fights
- Usually the go-to since it is more gold efficient than & will work well with passive, if you need Grievous Wounds.

Crit:

Strong at around 4 items or later
Mortal Reminder/Grievous Wounds is easy to pick up in this build
Good for champs that don't really want too much attack speed & just want to hit hard ( Caitlyn, Draven)
Versatile Mythic item, so you can buy situationally
A LOT of lifesteal, so if you don't die, you can get back up to full easily ( Immortal Shieldbow & Bloodthirster), if needed

Cons:

Takes longer to get online
No resistences, and much harder to itemize

General Potential Starting Items
(Rush Mythic option: or )
or
(Rush Mythic: )
or
(Hold BF for either or )

My Core:
MYTHIC ITEM: (generally the best option on the patch, due to damage of active & utility to dodge crucial enemy abilities), (generally the best damage option, but unless you have a lot of front line and peel, can't pick this up too safely), (if you are unable to dodge the enemy team's burst & are forced to tank abilities)
/
(I usually pick this up 3rd item & pick up either: LDR (), or before it, and rarely if I don't need any of those

Usual Buys:
/ (if you need Grievous Wounds or Armor Pen already)
/

The last 3 items in the build are situational, but is generally what my build looks like. 2 other crit items worth mentioning are: (provides a lot of attack speed & movement speed, gold efficient when attacking a lot) & (provides ability CD reduction), these are gold efficient & optional replacements if you need more damage and don't need one of the items in the core build above.

ALSO, getting early is not a bad idea (like 1st or 2nd item), if you know that you will be needing it later. It lets you think more on what your last two crit items will be (since you will have boots, IE, Mythic item, and as your 4 first items).

Lethality

Pros:

Good against squishies
Good poke damage
Likely a lot of ability haste and easier to slot in situational items if needed (than Crit)
Decent against assassins (since if you proc Duskblade of Draktharr you go invisible

Cons:

Bad against tanks
Very bad dps
Not strong survivability

Starting Items
(if you are skipping )
2 (if you can fit into an item slot)

Example Core Build:

/

The last item is usually a situational item, either a defensive item (e.g. , , ...) or Grievous Wounds ().

Mage / AP Build Options

There are a couple different builds that can be run depending on what champion you are playing.

Starting items for both builds:

DOT (Damage Over Time) champions - (e.g. , )

The last item I usually have as a situational one:

Burst/Combo Champions (e.g. )

(If melee can run )

CORE
(If melee can run here)

Situational:

Melees can also run the bruiser runes instead (w/ additional situational items: , )

General Assassin Build Options

Starting Items:

(or if you are unable to activate )

Can also run the bruiser masteries if you are not sure if you will be going the assassin route:

There are a couple of items that I have just started building on pretty much every assassin, or brusiers that can be built like assassins (e.g. , )

CORE:

/

Until is changed, it likely is the best item for ARAM assassins, the potential to reset and wipe an entire team in addition to invisibility, which makes it much harder to stop you (makes it easier to escape, get another kill, or make others unable to hit you). might be too gold efficient honestly, the potential to get you resets with kind of makes this item really strong especially early (both Duskblade & The Collector have lethality).

General Items that can be substituted out:
- Lets you lifesteal/omnivamp up to help you get resets, in addition to giving you AOE. (also ability haste is nice)
- QSS helps you get out of CC to keep you reseting (also pushes you up to 40% Crit Chance with , which isn't bad), and provides you a little MR.
- Keeps you alive long enough (from physical damage) to help you reset.

Some other items to consider:
- A lot of the brusier items are also not bad (e.g. , , )
- (% Armor Pen)
- if you really need Grievous Wounds
- if you really need movement speed to keep up with certain champs

Just a full game example (the blitz helped with tanking quite a bit):

Support / Healer & Shielder Build Options

Generally, the concept is almost the same as the previous guide - Active Item Support. Though there are a little less active items.

Starting Items:

(Can situationally use instead, but passive is pretty underrated with assassins running around)

/
/
/

Generally I just run this every game w/ first item, but the build order of the rest changing based off of the team composition, based off of this sort of priority:

Do they have assassins & do we not have a tank support?
Do they have pick/catch?
Do we have champions that can make use of either Movement Speed or AP well? then (generally giving the entire team movements speed is pretty strong - Catching/Picking, Kiting, ...)
Do we have AD / Auto Attack Champions? then

General Tank Build Options

or Bruiser runes, if cannot use

(or if you can activate it)

Starting Items:

Items:

/

Situational:
MR:
Armor:
Need Damage:
Grievous Wounds:
If they only have 1 Physical or Magic dmg source & can get away without a full MR or Armor item:

More or less pretty straightforward.

I still would like to test more, since it is the more gold efficient item, but definitely will work for now.

Support Tank (secondary tank):

same runes as above, or can run 2nd tree: ( & instead)

Starting Items:

Items:

/

Situational:

The other Situational items from the prior section work as well, if necessary.

I have not run this set too often, since most of the time I end up being the solo tank in the team comp, if I end up as tank.

General Bruiser / Fighter

(or if you can activate it)

Starting Items:
(or if you want)

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Generally for a lot of fighter items, it seems like a build as needed sort of thing:
- good into AD comps
- good for killing mainly squishy comps faster
- good for Cleansing when needed (like ulti)
- good into tanks
- good into AP burst

A lot of the suggested items on the Fighter Section isn't too bad.

Another consideration instead of is , though you may be playing cleanup more instead of engaging if you go that route.

TheoryCraft - Ezreal (Lethality)

honestly...kind of doesn't seem like he is the most balanced at the moment (despite what his win rate may or may not say). There are 3 builds I am currently trying/running on him. You probably have to decide which situation to run which build in & what order to build the items in.

Starting items for all builds:
2

1st Build: Lethality (ability haste focused)

/

& are likely the situational items that can be swapped out as needed. (If you need for assassins, or for healing reduction, or for QSS)

This is the build I find myself running the most at the moment.

Just a full game example:

TheoryCraft - AP Ezreal

Example End build:

(gold value-wise it breaks even stats-wise after a little over 3 legendary items)

If you need a situational item in this build, I would likely swap out for the needed item (e.g. , /)

could be better if there are a lot of tanks on the enemy team.

I also still want a bit more testing with . This is the build I have tried out the least out of the 3 Ezreal builds, and want a bit more testing on. The tradeoff is slightly more movement speed in the build w/

(EDIT: I've been liking a lot more than , and will likely pick it more next patch)

Late game...I might consider swapping out for , though it might be a bit risky if you miss an ability.

Probably the standard W -> E -> Q max for higher burst damage.

Want to still try out: secondary tree (could be stronger)

I would also like to try and see if there is a way to fit into the build. (Maybe in instances where isn't needed)

TheoryCraft - Ezreal (Tank Buster)

There are 2 builds, the first is kind of similar to what I had seen Voyboy run once when I had randomly watched his stream.

/
/

Situational item: , , ,

This build might deal more damage, but I have only thought of it recently

/
/

The situational item in this build is likely the Hydras ( / ) if you need an open slot. This build has the upside of being a little safer with a shield + movement speed + omnivamp & being able to build for the open Spellblade slot. It will likely deal slightly more damage to squishies, but slightly less to tanks. The heavier tank buster build is the 1st.

TheoryCraft - Galeforce Twisted Fate (AD)

Generally the build is around TF's & . The build is meant to be strong at picking off stragglers, or finding a needed pick for the rest of the team to jump on, while still doing strong physical damage dps (and slight magic due to ). This is mainly meant for situations when the rest of the team does magic damage.

/

Situational Items:

11.3 Changes

https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/patch-11-3-notes/

Some differences from the Tentative Changes (below) are that:
is +5 AD rather than the +10 initially listed, which is likely a good call, since incentivizing an item with a shield + lifesteal is pretty dangerous.

lost 10 AP (80 -> 70), so the item is 63.92% gold efficient (according to the wikia). I personally don't really pick up this item, unless it is late in builds...like last or 2nd to last item, but now might try to avoid it a bit more.

35 -> 40 AD, & 200 -> 300 Health. This item is now more gold efficient than , and can be picked up in tankier builds (like builds that involve and ) on bruisers. Usually I end up building Bruisers a lot more like Assassins, since is still pretty strong and a lot stronger option against since it just got nerfed though.

max stacks at 4 instead of 3.

changed from scaling omnivamp in the tentative to flat 10%, making the gold efficiency 97.12% (according to the wikia). Still a decent pickup if you need vamp/lifesteal in builds, moreso on bruisers/assassins.

mythic passive changed to 8 AP + 2% Omnivamp per legendary item (from 5% Magic Penetration). Also +50 Health compared to tentative (250 -> 300 Health). At full build it end up with roughly the same amount of omnivamp, but less leading up to it. There are no other items with % magic penetration, besides , so removing the current mythic passive might feel a little bad. (and will place more importance on grabbing earlier in builds that involve ). There are also no other mythics that have omnivamp, and no other AP/Mage items that have omnivamp/spellvamp. If a champ really values AP and Omnivamp they will likely still have to buy this item. (unless they get omnivamp from somewhere else in the build, maybe like and picking up )

Tentative 11.3 Changes

https://twitter.com/MarkYetter/status/1353822845269250048?s=20

Some of the tentative changes for items in 11.3:
- Not gold efficient anymore (but close to) & definitely still worth buying for the active
- still worth buying for active item support, likely still decent for MoonStaff build
- still good
& - likely both still good, just might be bought later in builds

- Up to 105.2% gold efficiency (at max movement speed)

- ...this item actually goes down in gold efficiency, unless I calculated it wrong. (NOW: 99.75%, AFTER: 99.73%) Really close though, just a bit confused why it is listed under Buffs...it probably is a nice item though for secondary/support tanks since the item cost went down

- honestly a very interesting item now for the Active Item support build (, will instantly give your team members grievous wounds & gives your teammates an open slot in their builds, any support with AOE heals/shields will be very valuable)...I also have a feeling this will be a good item for support maokai (or some tanks/support tanks) though with likely triggering it

- I'm not really sure this item should be buffed...if this becomes the go-to item...the game might not be in a healthy spot (with or if you get on the target & CC them, you likely can kill them fairly easily, but with they gain 15% lifesteal + a fairly large shield)

- More gold efficient without stacks than current (200 gold more), gold efficient once attacking, but less gold efficient than current at max stacks
- It loses a huge chunk of attack speed, and kind of feels like it loses a bit of it's identity. But, the item likely will seem better since it stacks faster, and since fights are usually pretty quick, the new version might be better than the current, more so for Crit builds. (On-hit builds might still like the current version more)

- the buff is kind of nuts...the item will gain about 10.5% gold efficiency...and the item was already gold efficient ( might feel a bit worse to buy now, unless you really need ability haste or if you have high max health)

& - both will likely be strong next patch ( will essentially act like a ), and will be gold efficient (108.33%) after next patch

- okay on some champions, definitely not a "buy this on every champion" item

& - geared more to be stronger pickups later (something interesting that may happen, is if there are champions that want to buy a strong mythic early...like & if it gets late into the game can sell for one of these mythics)

11.2 Changes (Items/Runes)

: 2% per bounty stack -> 1.7% per bounty stack
- I believe you still take this rune, due to the difficulty of getting spellvamp & healing in general in quite a few builds (and the flexibility to not have to grab healing in builds)

- 3% max mana -> 40% of Spellblade damage [Pre mitigation]
- Pretty sure in most cases you will come out with more mana in Crit oriented builds (that don't go , might be a bit closer in those cases)...so generally a little better

- item active CD 60 -> 90
- Unless the cooldown goes up even more, or the damage on the active is reduced (preferably), then the item is still the general go-to in most Crit builds

- Supersonic movement speed bonus: 50% for 2 seconds -> 30% for 1.5 seconds
- Pretty big nerf, movement speed is nearly cut in half and 20% of the duration was cut. But, the item is more for the extra dash & damage, so you're likely still buying the item if you were before. (Personally, I've been running more with , having a snare on an item active is pretty nice)

- Applies when "ally consumes the mark" -> "initial application of slow/immobilize"
- If I'm understanding this correctly...this made the item even stronger?...The cooldown is 6 seconds per enemy champion & it sounds as though the cooldown will now start immediately, rather than when the mark pops or expires, and the mark stays on for 4 seconds. So, effectively there is only a 2 second window of downtime now. I could definitely be misunderstanding & will update this if I find out otherwise.

- 350 health -> 200 health
- 5% Bonus movement speed removed
- 40 AP added
- 50% base mana regen -> 100%
- Build path: + + {{Winged Moonplate]] + 650 gold -> + + 750 gold

- The AP and additional mana regen are pretty big, but don't really believe you would pick this over or or generally over other mythics. Situationally, this can be extremely strong...like if your entire comp is Tanks or Bruisers, or if you are against an entire team of squishies just trying to poke you out & you need to engage immediately.

- Fortify bonus MR & Armor: 3% (15% max) -> 5% (25% max)

: 2800 gold -> 2600 gold, 55 AD -> 50 AD
- Would still likely only buy this if you need trap detection or removal
- Slightly more gold efficient

: 2800 gold -> 2600 gold, 60 AD -> 55 AD
- Slightly more gold efficient
- Still would likely not buy unless it granted % damage to shields or some larger buff to the shielded target damage

: 2700 gold -> 2600 gold, 200 Health -> 150 Health
- Slightly more gold efficient
- While this item is honestly good...and close in gold effiency to , the only time I would buy this item is if I really value a lot ability haste. Even on Assassins and a lot of bruisers, personally I would likely still run . Since Energy users run out of energy pretty quickly, they won't want A LOT of ability haste and will likely be auto attacking quite a bit (and have a % chance to crit due to or ), additionally you will likely already have some sort of ability haste from or & from some items themselves (e.g. ), even more would likely be overkill. As for brusiers, it's a bit less straightforward...the item is close in strength already, but for On-Hit bruisers (like ) they would likely value all the stats that would give them. More tanky bruisers may like more though (like ), but they likely shouldn't be the ones on the team buying grevious wounds & should be buying items to help keep them alive and in the fight, which wouldn't give them.

: Build path - + 2 + 950 gold (up from 850)
- This item is honestly good, and should be one of the go-tos for an attack speed crit item
- Gold efficiency up slightly (nearly gold efficient when auto attacking an enemy, and very gold efficiency when auto attacking multiple times)

: Build path - + 2 + 950 gold (up from 850)
- Slightly more gold efficient
- Still worth considering in On-Hit builds, and decent 2nd or 4th item in Crit builds.

: Swapped passive with , so now has +5% tenacity and slow resist

:
Total Cost - 3200 gold -> 2800 gold
Builds out of instead of now ( + + + 950 gold)
Ability Haste: 15 -> 20
Armor: 50 -> 25
- The gold efficiency droped slightly (less than a %)

:
Total Cost - 3200 gold -> 2800 gold
Builds out of instead of now ( + + + 950 gold)
Ability Haste: 15 -> 20
Magic Resist: 50 -> 25
Mythic Passive changed to: 5 ability haste per legendary item
- Gold Efficiency slightly up (and higher per legendary item)
- This item may be the default go-to tank item now. The active is really strong, and the mythic is really strong as well now. (the combination might be too strong to be honest) I kind of want to test an active item tank build (maybe something like this item w/ + )

is out! (Seems like an On-Hit, Assassin, and possibly even AP might be good options...will need more testing!)

11.1 Changes

- a little bit more balanced now (100 (30% bonus AD) -> 65 (25% bonus AD)), but still a problem on champions like

feels rush-able if you need engage on champions like (but, imo if you are the solo tank, then I would still not recommend grabbing it)

still seems pretty strong, but is not oppressive unless the champion is like . (healing active is now calculated sequentially)

slightly less gold efficient, but is still good in on-hit ranged builds, and now works on magic damage again

is immediately gold efficient & the active damage is now flat instead of scaling, so is a better rush item, rather than waiting to pick it up 2nd or 3rd item

is nearly gold efficient & if you are picking it up, you should rush it first item since the soulrend damage is flat as well instead of scaling.

no longer has AD/ on it & is ~83% gold efficient. (gold efficiency number from wikia) Still buy in same scenarios.

[11.13] General ARAM Guide (Lengthy)

[11.13] General ARAM Guide (Lengthy)

Champion Build Guide

[11.13] General ARAM Guide (Lengthy)

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